Maude Eburne
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Maude Eburne (born Maud Eburne Riggs, 10 November 1875 – 15 October 1960) was a Canadian character actress of stage and screen, known for playing eccentric roles. Eburne began her career in stock theater in Buffalo, New York. Her early theater work was in Ontario and New York City, debuting on Broadway to great acclaim as "Coddles" in the 1914 farce A Pair of Sixes. "When I first came to New York... I said I didn't want to be beautiful young girls or stately leading women, but wanted parts that had something queer in them, especially if there were dialect." She continued to play mainly humorous domestic roles on stage, appearing in productions such as The Half Moon (1920), Lady Butterfly (1923), Three Cheers (1928) and Many a Slip (1930), before her first significant film role — and first sound film role — in The Bat Whispers (1930), director Roland West's sound remake of his 1926 silent feature The Bat.
Ladies They Talk About
as Aunt MaggieA moll, imprisoned after participating in a bank robbery, helps with a breakout plot.
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To Be or Not to Be
as AnnaDuring the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's...
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Ruggles of Red Gap
as 'Ma' PettingillIn this comedy of an Englishman stranded in a sea of barbaric Americans, Marmaduke Ruggles, a...
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The Woman from Monte Carlo
as Dowager Party GuestOn the eve of WW-I the French Navy ship Lafayette returns to its Toulon base for one night....
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The Princess and the Pirate
as Landlady of the 'Boar's Head Inn'Princess Margaret is travelling incognito to elope with her true love instead of marrying the...
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The Vampire Bat
as Aunt Gussie SchnappmannA German village is stricken by a series of murders that appear to be the work of vampires.
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The Chance of a Lifetime
as Edna Counihan (Uncredited)A mad scramble for stolen loot ensues after Boston Blackie has prisoners released for work in a...
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The Boogie Man Will Get You
as Amelia JonesA young divorcee tries to convert a historic house into a hotel despite its oddball inhabitants...
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The Suspect
as Mrs. PackerGenial shopkeeper Philip has to endure the constant nagging of a shrewish wife while he secretly...
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Among the Living
as Mrs. PickensA mentally unstable man, who has been kept in isolation for years, escapes and causes trouble...
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The Passionate Plumber
as Aunt CharlotteParis plumber Elmer Tuttle is enlisted by socialite Patricia Alden to help make her lover Tony...
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Vivacious Lady
as Nagging Wife of Man Shaving on Train (uncredited)College town life gets turned upside down after a button-down botany professor secretly weds a...
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You Belong to Me
as EllaA playboy marries a woman doctor then grows jealous of her male patients.
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The Golden Fleecing
as Landlady (uncredited)A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.
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Under Eighteen
as Mrs. McCarthyWorking girl Margie Evans has decided there are two kinds of opportunities for a slum kid during...
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Live, Love and Learn
as Mrs. CrumpA starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love on first sight and immediately get...
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The Bat Whispers
as Lizzie AllenInfamous burglar "The Bat" commits a daring jewelry theft despite heavy police presence. Soon...
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Li'l Abner
as Granny ScraggsLi'l Abner becomes convinced that he is going to die within twenty-four hours, so agrees to...
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Union Depot
as Passenger at Information Desk (uncredited)Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a...
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Blonde Crazy
as Mrs. SnyderAdventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice.
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There's One Born Every Minute
as AgathaA nine-year-old Elizabeth Taylor made her film debut in this lively comedy. She plays the...
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The Man in Possession
as EstherA deeply in debt heiress tries to land a rich man while a collector from the Sheriff's office...
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The Town Went Wild
as Judge BingleComedy concerning two feuding fathers dealing with the shocking news that their sons were...
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Doughnuts and Society
as Belle DuganKate Flannagan and Belle Dugan operate a downtown coffee shop and, while dispensing their...
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The Amazing Mr. Williams
as Landlady (uncredited)Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's...
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Here Comes the Navy
as Droopy's MotherA cocky guy joins the Navy for the wrong reason but finds romance and twice is cited for heroism.
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Hitchhike to Happiness
as Mrs. RandallAn aspiring playwright gets a job in a New York City restaurant favored by celebrities in hopes...
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Reveille with Beverly
as Maggie (uncredited)Beverly Ross, the switchboard operator at a local radio station, jumps at the chance to be the...
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The Courageous Dr. Christian
as Mrs. HastingsA doctor fights an epidemic that breaks out in the poor section of town and tries to get the...
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Convict's Code
as Mrs. MagruderOn parole after three years in prison, a football player encounters the man who framed him.
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Robbers' Roost
as Aunt EllenRunning from the law, Jim Hall joins Hays’ gang. Hays is foreman on the Herrick ranch and plans...
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The Plunderers
as Old Dame at WeddingHero Rod Cameron kills Sheriff Sam Borden at point-blank range and in front of several witnesses...
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Maybe It's Love
as LandladyDirector William C. McGann's 1935 film stars Gloria Stuart and Ross Alexander as a young couple...
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Don't Bet on Blondes
as Little Ellen PurdyOwen, a small time bookie, decides to open an insurance business as it involves lesser risk. His...
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Colorado
as Etta MaeTrouble in Colorado is tying up Union troops needed back east during the Civil War and Lieut....
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Dawn on the Great Divide
as Sarah HarkinsBuck Roberts is leading a wagon train of railroad supplies and Jim Corkle and his henchman Loder...
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Arson, Inc.
as GrandmaAn arson investigator goes undercover to break up a ring that sets fires in order to collect the...
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Happiness C.O.D.
as Aunt AddieA young man, hard-pressed to pay off his mortgage and support his family, decides that he'll get...
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Bought!
as Mrs. ChaunceyWorking-class girl dreams of living a better life and forsakes her friends when she has a chance...
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Polly of the Circus
as Mrs. JenningsWhen Polly Fisher, a circus aerialist, is hurt while performing, she is taken to the house of a...
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Indiscreet
as Aunt KateA young woman jeopardizes the relationship with the man she loves when a no-account from her...
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Return of the Terror
as Mrs. Elvery"The Terror", a killer whose identity is unknown, occupies an English country house that has...
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They Meet Again
as Mrs. HastingsDr. Christian takes time out from his appointed rounds to help clear a bank teller of...
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Bowery to Broadway
as Mame AldaTwo Bowery vaudevillians find success in producing shows on Broadway, but when one of them...
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The Trial of Vivienne Ware
as Mrs. Elizabeth HardyVivienne Ware is defended by her ex-beau when she's accused of killing her faithless fiance.
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Poppy
as Sarah TuckerCarny con artist and snake-oil salesman Eustace McGargle tries to stay one step ahead of the...
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Up in Arms
as Woman on Cable Car (uncredited)Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted and accidentally smuggles his girlfriend aboard his...
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Panama Flo
as SadieAn engineer makes a thieving entertainer work off her debts as a housekeeper at his jungle...
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When's Your Birthday?
as Mrs. BasscombeSome shady characters discover that a sad sack nightclub bus boy has the ability to predict...
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This Reckless Age
as RhodaDonald Ingals and his wife Eunice are conventional and loving parents who are shocked when their...
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Glamour Boy
as Borax BettyFormer child star Jackie Cooper headlines this sentimental behind-the-scenes comedy drama. He...
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The Guardsman
as "Mama"An acclaimed actor and his equally acclaimed actress wife, who have been married for less than a...
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Havana Widows
as Mrs. Ryan, the LandladyTwo golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana.
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Lonely Wives
as Mrs. MantelA highly respectable lawyer becomes a sexual animal after working hours; His live-in...
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Meet Dr. Christian
as Mrs. HastingsThe first of six films in the "Dr. Christian" series, starring Jean Hersholt as a small town...
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Riders of the Black Hills
as Mrs. Peggy GarthRiders of the Black Hills is a 1938 American Western directed by George Sherman. The intrepid...
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Slippy McGee
as Mrs. DexterA safecracker breaks his leg and reforms with a good girl and a priest.
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The First Year
as Emily LivingstonGrace Livingston is leading a happy life in her small town, with her mother and father, being...
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The Border Legion
as Hurricane Hattie McGuireWanted by the law in New York, Dr. Steve Kells heads west and arrives in an area controlled by...
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Fog
as Mrs. JacksonThe murders are committed in swift succession on board a liner crossing the Atlantic in a dense...
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Sabotage
as Mrs. HopkinsThe night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is...
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I'm from Arkansas
as Matilda JenkinsA town in Arkansas makes national headlines when a local sow gives birth to 18 piglets.
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Stranger in Town
as Mrs. PetrickCrickle is a tenacious small-town grocer who stubbornly resists the efforts of a monopolistic...
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Shanghai Madness
as Mrs. GlissenIn the 1920s Pat Jackson destroys a Chinese post and is discharged from the Navy. Li Po Chang...
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Undercover Agent
as Mrs. MinnowA railway postal clerk goes after a sweepstakes counterfeiting ring.
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The Leavenworth Case
as Phoebe LeavenworthDirector Lewis D. Collins' 1936 whodunit is about the investigation into the death of an elderly...
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Henry and Dizzy
as Martha BradleyAfter accidentally sinking a borrowed motorboat, teenager Henry Aldrich scrambles to raise the...
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Champagne Waltz
as Mrs. ScribnerIn Vienna, a new jazz club featuring American trumpeter Buzzy Bellew threatens the existence of...
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Man from Oklahoma
as Grandma LaneThe feuding Lanes and Whittakers are brought together with the help of Roy Rogers, when a...
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Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
as Maggie DevlinCarrie Snyder is a prostitute, who is forced out of the fictional southern town of Crebillon,...
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Lazy River
as Miss Minnie LescalleEx-convicts try to stop a Chinese smuggling ring.
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Almost Married
as Mrs. ClaytonTo avoid a costly breach of contract suit, a rich young man marries a nightclub singer.
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Fight for Your Lady
as NadyaWrestling trainer puts himself in charge of a singer's love life when the singer is jilted by a...
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Party Wire
as Clara WestWhen a small-town girl's boyfriend leaves in disgrace, gossips spread false reports of her...
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Divorce In The Family
as Martha JenkinsA child struggles to come to terms with his parents' divorce. Director Charles Reisner's 1932...
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Paradise Express
as Maggie CaseyA small railroad is being squeezed out of business by the tactics of a trucking company owned by...
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The Lawton Story
as HenriettaMost of the footage is devoted to the annual Passion Play at Lawton, Oklahoma, enacted by...
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Local Boy Makes Good
as MaidJohn is a timid student who works at the University Book Store. He is studying to be a botanist...
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Rosie the Riveter
as Granma QuillIn this romantic wartime comedy, four female defense plant workers share a house with four male...
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West Point Widow
as Mrs. WillitsIn this romance, a hospital nurse marries a West Point football hero. She soon gets pregnant,...
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Remedy for Riches
as Mrs. HastingsA small town doctor suspects the stranger in town is promoting an oil swindle. The fourth entry...
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My Lips Betray
as Mamma WatscheckIn a make-believe, mittleuropean kingdom, a vivacious but dim country girl sings in a beer...
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Lady Bodyguard
as Mother HodgesA.C.Baker, advertising executive for an insurance company, approaches test pilot Terry Moore...
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Dr. Christian Meets the Women
as Mrs. HastingsA conman arrives in town trying to sell his miracle methods of weight loss to the ladies. It's...
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Henry Aldrich, Editor
as Mrs. NorrisAppointed editor of his high school newspaper, hapless Henry becomes intrigued by a series of...
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The Covered Trailer
as Widow Ella JonesThe Higgins family prepares for a long-awaited cruise to Rio, but while father Joe bids farewell...
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Hollywood Cowboy
as Violet ButlerJust after Kramer goes to Wyoming to start his protection racket, cowboy actor Jeff Carson...
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Mountain Rhythm
as Ma HutchinsCavanaugh and McCauley are after the ranchers land. When the Government announces the land will...
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My Wife's Relatives
as Widow Ella JonesIt all begins when Joe Higgins, business manager of a prosperous candy-manufacturing firm, is...
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Exile Express
as Mrs. SmithA San Francisco reporter and a lab assistant foil spies on an East-bound deportation train.
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Man Hunt
as Mariah HogginsA bored small-town teacher gets mixed up with an escaped bank robber.
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