Maria Ouspenskaya

Actor

About

Birth Place

Russia

Born

July 29, 1876

Died

December 03, 1949

Filmography

A Kiss in the Dark (1949)

Madame Karina

Wyoming (1947)

Maria

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)

Maleva

Kings Row (1942)

Madame [Marie] von Eln

The Shanghai Gesture (1942)

The amah

The Mystery of Marie Roget (1942)

Mme. [Cecile] Roget

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Beyond Tomorrow (1940) -- (Movie Clip) It Rarely Seemed Like Christmas

Judge Hardy And Son (1939) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Mighty Proud Of Carvel

Biography

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

A Kiss in the Dark (1949)

Madame Karina

Wyoming (1947)

Maria

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)

Maleva

Kings Row (1942)

Madame [Marie] von Eln

The Shanghai Gesture (1942)

The amah

The Mystery of Marie Roget (1942)

Mme. [Cecile] Roget

The Wolf Man (1941)

Maleva

The Mortal Storm (1940)

Mrs. [Hilda] Breitner

Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)

Madame Basilova

The Man I Married (1940)

Frau Gerhardt

Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940)

Franziska Speyer

Beyond Tomorrow (1940)

Madame Tanya

Waterloo Bridge (1940)

Madame Olga Kirowa

Judge Hardy and Son (1939)

Mrs. [Judith] Volduzzi

The Rains Came (1939)

Baroness von Obersdorf

Life Events

1936

Received first Oscar nomination for supporting role in "Dodsworth"

1939

Earned second Academy Award nomination for "Love Affair"

Photo Collections

Love Affair (1939) - Scene Stills

Here are a few scene stills from Love Affair (1939), directed by Leo McCarey and starring Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer.

Videos

Beyond Tomorrow (1940) -- (Movie Clip) It Rarely Seemed Like Christmas We’ve learned that housekeeper Tanya (Maria Ouspenskaya) is a refugee Russian noble, long part of the unrelated family household comprised of prosperous engineering-firm partners and roommates Chadwick (C. Aubrey Smith), Melton (Harry Carey) and O’Brien (Charles Winninger), on Christmas Eve, in Beyond Tomorrow, 1940.

Judge Hardy And Son (1939) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Mighty Proud Of Carvel Opening leading to the premise, Judge Hardy (Lewis Stone) and fellow officers (Erville Alderson, Ernie Anderson) concluding they have no business to conduct, when the unexpected Volduzzis (Maria Ouspenskaya, Egon Brecher) arrive, in MGM’s Judge Hardy And Son, 1939.

Love Affair (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Porto Madeira Meeting by chance at a stop-over in Porto Madeira, Terry (Irene Dunne) and Michel (Charles Boyer) visit his grandmother (Maria Ouspenskaya) and her chapel in Love Affair, 1939.

Tarzan And The Amazons -- (Movie Clip) He Is Our Friend "Boy" (Johnny Sheffield) curiously follows Tarzan (Johnny Weissmuller) as he takes the injured Athena (Shirley O'Hara) back to the Amazon temple where the queen (Maria Ouspenskaya) thanks Tarzan and instructs Athena of her wrong for leaving the temple in Tarzan and the Amazons, 1945.

Wolf Man, The (1941) -- (Movie Clip) Werewolf In Camp! At the gypsy carnival Larry (Lon Chaney Jr.), looking maybe not as worried as he could be, offers his amulet to Gwen (Evelyn Ankers), then rushes home fearing his first transformation, in Universal's The Wolf Man, 1941.

Wolf Man, The (1941) -- (Movie Clip) Wolf? Gypsy Woman? Murder? Wild events with gypsy Bela (Lugosi), his mother (Maria Ouspenskaya), Gwen (Evelyn Ankers) and Larry (Lon Chaney Jr.), his father (Claude Rains) baffled, the constable (Ralph Bellamy) asking the obvious question, in Universal's The Wolf Man, 1941.

Dance, Girl, Dance -- (Movie Clip) Too Classy When a night club boss (Harold Huber) isn't buying the Hula routine featuring Judy (Maureen O'Hara), Madame Basilova (Maria Ouspenskaya) produces Bubbles (Lucille Ball) just in time, in Dance, Girl, Dance, 1940.

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1936

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