Belle Mitchell


Biography

Belle Mitchell was an actress who had a successful Hollywood career. Mitchell started her acting career landing roles in such films as "I Love That Man" (1933), the Jeanette MacDonald musical "The Firefly" (1937) and "Blockade" (1938). She also appeared in the action film "The Mark of Zorro" (1940) with Tyrone Power, the Maria Montez fantasy "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" (1944) a...

Biography

Belle Mitchell was an actress who had a successful Hollywood career. Mitchell started her acting career landing roles in such films as "I Love That Man" (1933), the Jeanette MacDonald musical "The Firefly" (1937) and "Blockade" (1938). She also appeared in the action film "The Mark of Zorro" (1940) with Tyrone Power, the Maria Montez fantasy "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" (1944) and "Cobra Woman" (1944). She kept working in film throughout the forties, starring in "Who's Guilty?" (1945), "Freddie Steps Out" (1946) and the musical "High School Hero" (1946) with Freddie Stewart. She also appeared in the musical "Junior Prom" (1946) with Freddie Stewart, "Vacation Days" (1947) and "That Lady in Ermine" (1948). Film continued to be her passion as she played roles in "Viva Zapata!" (1952), "Passion" (1954) with Cornel Wilde and "Lust For Life" (1956) with Kirk Douglas. She also appeared in "The First Traveling Saleslady" (1956) with Ginger Rogers, the western "The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold" (1958) with Clayton Moore and the Rosalind Russell comedic adaptation "A Majority of One" (1961). Mitchell was most recently credited in the Charlton Heston action movie "The War Lord" (1965). Mitchell passed away in October 1961 at the age of 72.

Filmography

 

Cast (Feature Film)

The War Lord (1965)
Old woman
The Miracle (1959)
Farmer's wife
The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold (1958)
Caulama
Lust for Life (1956)
Mme. Tanguy
The First Traveling Saleslady (1956)
Emily
Strange Lady in Town (1955)
Catalina
Passion (1954)
Señora Carrisa
Phantom of the Rue Morgue (1954)
Concierge
Tumbleweed (1953)
Indian
Hiawatha (1952)
Mother
The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima (1952)
Señora Carreira
Mask of the Avenger (1951)
Busy-body
Ghost Chasers (1951)
Madame Zola
Prejudice (1949)
The Snake Pit (1948)
Asylum inmate
That Lady in Ermine (1948)
Ancestor
The Vicious Circle (1948)
Mrs. Horney
Sword of the Avenger (1948)
Aunt
The Prince of Thieves (1948)
Margaret Head
The Beast with Five Fingers (1947)
Giovanna
Vacation Days (1947)
Miss [Mathilde] Hinklefink
Desire Me (1947)
Baker's wife
Unconquered (1947)
Old crone squaw
Freddie Steps Out (1946)
Miss Hinklefink
Junior Prom (1946)
Miss Hinklefink
High School Hero (1946)
Miss Hinklefink
Son of the Guardsman (1946)
Sudan (1945)
That Night with You (1945)
Mother
The Song of Bernadette (1945)
The Fighting Guardsman (1945)
Peasant woman
House of Frankenstein (1945)
Urla
Cornered (1945)
Hotel maid
Who's Guilty? (1945)
Ghost Catchers (1944)
Mrs. Signatelli
The Spider Woman (1944)
Fortune teller
Cobra Woman (1944)
Native woman
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
Mrs. Braukoff
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1944)
Nursemaid
Phantom of the Opera (1943)
Maid
The Leopard Man (1943)
Senora Calderon
Saboteur (1942)
Maid
Halfway to Shanghai (1942)
Oya
South of Tahiti (1941)
Taupa
The Corsican Brothers (1941)
A Night at Earl Carroll's (1940)
The Mark of Zorro (1940)
Maria [de Lopez]
Road to Singapore (1940)
Native shopkeeper
Blockade (1938)
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
Mrs. Maggione
Souls at Sea (1937)
Fortune teller
Madame X (1937)
Nun
Maytime (1937)
Maid
Man of the People (1937)
Italian woman
The Firefly (1937)
Lola
San Francisco (1936)
Maid
The Leavenworth Case (1936)
Cat woman
The Bride Comes Home (1936)
Helene, the maid
Viva Villa (1934)
Spanish wife
Stamboul Quest (1934)
Maid
I Love That Man (1933)
Maria
Flying Romeos (1928)
Mrs. Goldberg

Cast (Short)

A Jazzed Honeymoon (1919)
The Big Idea (1918)
Take a Chance (1918)
A Gasoline Wedding (1918)
Look Pleasant, Please (1918)
Bashful (1917)
Rainbow Island (1917)
Move On (1917)
By the Sad Sea Waves (1917)

Life Events

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