Norma Varden

Actor

About

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Birth Place

London, England, GB

Born

January 20, 1898

Died

January 19, 1989

Cause of Death

Heart Failure

Filmography

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Doctor Dolittle (1967)

Lady Petherington

A Very Special Favor (1965)

The Sound of Music (1965)

13 Frightened Girls (1963)

The Buccaneer (1959)

The Miracle (1959)

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Mademoiselle Fifi (1944) -- (Movie Clip) Little Launderesses Or Liberals

Mademoiselle Fifi (1944) -- (Movie Clip) More Than A Patriot

Biography

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Doctor Dolittle (1967)

Lady Petherington

A Very Special Favor (1965)

The Sound of Music (1965)

13 Frightened Girls (1963)

The Buccaneer (1959)

The Miracle (1959)

In the Money (1958)

Witness for the Prosecution (1957)

Mrs. [Emily Jane] French

The Birds and the Bees (1956)

Jupiter's Darling (1955)

The Silver Chalice (1955)

Three Coins in the Fountain (1954)

Young Bess (1953)

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)

Loose in London (1953)

Something for the Birds (1952)

Congresswoman Bates

Les Miserables (1952)

Mademoiselle Courbet

Strangers on a Train (1951)

Mrs. Cunningham

Thunder on the Hill (1951)

Fancy Pants (1950)

Adventure in Baltimore (1949)

H[elen] H[adley] Hamilton

The Secret Garden (1949)

The Spiritualist (1948)

Let's Live a Little (1948)

Hollow Triumph (1948)

The Senator Was Indiscreet (1948)

Woman at banquet

Forever Amber (1947)

The Trouble with Women (1947)

Mrs. Wilmer Dawson

Bob, Son of Battle (1947)

Millie's Daughter (1947)

Mrs. Sarah Harris

Where There's Life (1947)

Mrs. Herbert Jones

The Searching Wind (1946)

The Green Years (1946)

The Cheaters (1945)

National Velvet (1945)

Hold That Blonde (1945)

Mrs. Henry Carteret

Girls of the Big House (1945)

Mrs. Thelma Holt

Those Endearing Young Charms (1945)

Haughty floor lady

Bring on the Girls (1945)

Mademoiselle Fifi (1944)

The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)

The Good Fellows (1943)

What a Woman! (1943)

Slightly Dangerous (1943)

Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943)

My Kingdom for a Cook (1943)

The Glass Key (1942)

Flying with Music (1942)

We Were Dancing (1942)

Mrs. Bryce-Carew

Random Harvest (1942)

Johnny Doughboy (1942)

The Major and the Minor (1942)

Casablanca (1942)

Glamour Boy (1941)

The Mad Doctor (1941)

Scotland Yard (1941)

Lady [Elizabeth] Heathcote

Road to Zanzibar (1941)

Waterloo Bridge (1940)

The Earl of Chicago (1940)

Maureen Kilmount

Shipyard Sally (1939)

Patricia Randell

Fools for Scandal (1938)

Everything Happens to Me (1938)

You're The Doctor (1938)

East Meets West (1936)

Boys Will Be Boys (1936)

Windbag the Sailor (1936)

The Iron Duke (1935)

Duchess of Richmond

Get Off My Foot (1935)

Cast (Special)

Life Events

Videos

Mademoiselle Fifi (1944) -- (Movie Clip) Little Launderesses Or Liberals Introducing the protagonist, Simone Simon as laundress Elisabeth, catching a stage during the 1870 Prussian occupation of France with her social superiors (the bourgeoisie Alan Napier, Romaine Callender, Helen Freeman, Norma Varden, and Edmund Glover the priest), Jason Robards the voluble merchant, John Emery the agitator, in Mademoiselle Fifi, 1944.

Mademoiselle Fifi (1944) -- (Movie Clip) More Than A Patriot Everybody happier as resourceful laundress Elisabeth (Simone Simon) has shared her plentiful poultry with her famished upper-class stage coach companions, congratulated especially by Norma Varden and Jason Robards Sr., during the 1870 Prussian occupation of France, in RKO’s Mademoiselle Fifi, 1944.

Three Coins In The Fountain (1954) -- (Movie Clip) Predatory Prince First scene for Clifton Webb as author Shadwell at a Rome social, then the three American heroines, Dorothy McGuire, Jean Peters and Maggie McNamara as "Maria," meeting Louis Jourdan, as suave prince "Dino," early in director Jean Negulesco's Three Coins In The Fountain, 1954.

Rome Adventure (1962) -- (Movie Clip) Lovers Must Learn Young Suzanne Pleshette is composure itself, as librarian Prudence, telling off her bosses (led by Norma Varden) with a clever nod to the book on which the movie is based then, with parents (Mary Patton, Maurice Wells), disembarking, meeting Albert (Hampton Fancher), opening Rome Adventure, 1962.

Witness For The Prosecution (1957) -- (Movie Clip) My Egg Beater With no apparent concerns on his conscience, defendant-to-be Leonard Vole (Tyrone Power) reveals to barrister Sir Wilfrid (Charles Laughton) the beginnings of his affair with the murdered Mrs. French (Norma Varden), in Billy Wilder's Witness For The Prosecution, 1957.

Elephant Walk -- (Movie Clip) Poisonous Snakes Peter Finch, playing "John Wiley," narrates the opening, introducing his wife-to-be Ruth (Elizabeth Taylor) and her fussy customer (Norma Varden), in Paramount's Elephant Walk, 1954, also starring Dana Andrews.

13 Frightened Girls -- (Alternate Scene) -- French Girl Opening The "French Girl" version of the opening to William Castle's 13 Frightened Girls, 1963, all of which are seen on the new William Castle Film Collection DVD set, available October 20th.

National Velvet - (Original Trailer) A British farm girl fights to train a difficult horse for the Grand National Steeplechase in National Velvet (1944), starring Elizabeth Taylor and Mickey Rooney.

13 Frightened Girls -- (Alternate Scene) -- British Girl Opening The "British Girl" version of the opening to William Castle's 13 Frightened Girls, 1963, all of which are seen on the new William Castle Film Collection DVD set, available October 20th.

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