Lucile Watson

Actor

About

Also Known As

Lucille Watson

Birth Place

Quebec, Ontario, CA

Born

May 27, 1879

Died

June 24, 1962

Cause of Death

Heart Attack

Filmography

My Forbidden Past (1951)

Everybody Does It (1949)

Mrs. Blair

That Wonderful Urge (1949)

Aunt Cornelia

Little Women (1949)

Aunt March

Photos & Videos

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Rage In Heaven (1941) -- (Movie Clip) Nobody Is Afraid Of Me

Rage In Heaven (1941) -- (Movie Clip) She's A Refugee

Family & Companions

Rockcliffe Fellows

Husband

Actor. Married in the 1910s; divorced; born in 1881; died in 1950.

Louis Shipman

Husband

Playwright. Married from 1928 until his death in 1933.

Biography

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

My Forbidden Past (1951)

Everybody Does It (1949)

Mrs. Blair

That Wonderful Urge (1949)

Aunt Cornelia

Little Women (1949)

Aunt March

Julia Misbehaves (1948)

Mrs. Packett

The Emperor Waltz (1948)

Princess Bitotska

Ivy (1947)

Mrs. Gretorex

The Razor's Edge (1946)

Louisa Bradley

Never Say Goodbye (1946)

Mrs. Hamilton

Song of the South (1946)

Miss Doshy

My Reputation (1946)

Mrs. Kimball

Tomorrow Is Forever (1946)

Aunt Jessie Hamilton

The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)

Mrs. Charles

Till We Meet Again (1944)

Mother Superior

Uncertain Glory (1944)

Mme. Maret

Watch on the Rhine (1943)

Fanny Farrelly

Footsteps in the Dark (1941)

Mrs. Archer

Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941)

Mrs. Custer

The Great Lie (1941)

Aunt Ada

Rage in Heaven (1941)

Countess Marie Duvarre

Waterloo Bridge (1940)

Lady Margaret Cronin

The Women (1939)

Mrs. Morehead

Made for Each Other (1939)

Mrs. Mason

Sweethearts (1938)

Mrs. Marlowe

The Young in Heart (1938)

Mrs. Jennings

The Garden of Allah (1936)

Mother Superior

A Woman Rebels (1936)

Betty Bumble

Three Smart Girls (1936)

Martha

The Bishop Misbehaves (1935)

Lady Emily [Lyons]

What Every Woman Knows (1934)

la Comtesse [la Briere]

Life Events

1909

Had first major success in the Broadway production of "The City"

1920

Had stage triumph in George Bernard Shaw's "Heartbreak House"

1925

London stage debut in "Dancing Mothers"

1926

Co-starred in "Ghosts"

1934

Feature film debut at age 55 in "What Every Woman Knows"

1935

Appeared as Mrs. Bennett in stage version of "Pride and Prejudice"

1939

First major film roles in "The Women" and "Made for Each Other"

1940

Had memorable role in "Waterloo Bridge"

1941

Returned to Broadway in Lillian Hellman's "Watch on the Rhine"

1943

Reprised her stage role in film version of "Watch on the Rhine"; received Oscar nomination as Best Supporting Actress

1946

Co-starred in Disney's "Song of the South"

1948

Narrated and acted in "The Emperor's Waltz"

1949

Portrayed Aunt March in the remake of "Little Women"

1950

Again returned to stage work starring in Jean Anouilh's Ring Around the Moon"

1950

TV acting debut in episode of "Armstrong Circle Theatre"

1951

Final film appearance in "My Forbidden Past"

Videos

Rage In Heaven (1941) -- (Movie Clip) Nobody Is Afraid Of Me First architect Ward (George Sanders) swoons over European war refugee Stella (Ingrid Bergman) on the English estate belonging to his friend and her employer, son Philip (Robert Montgomery) and mother (Lucile Watson), who confer about them, though he’s a bit weird, early in MGM’s Rage In Heaven 1941.

Rage In Heaven (1941) -- (Movie Clip) She's A Refugee Director W.S. Van Dyke II, from a script by Christopher Isherwood and Robert Thoeren, introduces his three top-billed stars, after an opening in which a patient named Andrews, whom we never saw, escaped from an asylum in wartime England, we meet Robert Montgomery, George Sanders, then Ingrid Bergman, in Rage In Heaven 1941.

Julia Misbehaves (1948) -- (Movie Clip) Agamemnon Beating Circe Unveiling the affluent Packett household in France, Walter Pidgeon whom we surmise is the estranged but not unfriendly husband of the title character (Greer Garson, not seen here), Elizabeth Taylor the daughter, whose wedding she’s been unexpectedly invited to, Peter Lawford a hired artist, and Lucile Watson the grandmother, in MGM’s Julia Misbehaves, 1948.

Razor's Edge, The (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Mr. Maugham Herbert Marshall narrating as author W. Somerset Maughan, a device from the novel, visiting Templeton (Clifton Webb), and meeting his sister (Lucile Watson), her daughter Isabel (Gene Tierney) and friend Sophie (Anne Baxter), much talk about the unseen principal, Larry (Tyrone Power), opening The Razor's Edge, 1946.

Made For Each Other (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Blood Transfusion Angling for his promotion, strapped Jane (Carole Lombard) and John (James Stewart) are entertaining his boss Judge Doolittle (Charles Coburn), his frowning daughter (Ruth Weston) and rival Carter (Donald Briggs), the temporary maid (Esther Dale) making trouble, in Made For Each Other, 1939.

Harriet Craig (1950) -- (Movie Clip) A Different Approach With Each Girl Innocent Clare (K.T. Stevens), who lives-with and works-for her cousin (Joan Crawford, title character) with beau Wes (William Bishop), who works for Joan’s husband, quite sincere until she interrupts, dismissing him, then sharing a wholly fabricated secret about his intentions, in Harriet Craig, 1950.

Harriet Craig (1950) -- (Movie Clip) Perhaps I'd Better Not Hear Title character Joan Crawford is upstairs now, having observed rather a mess downstairs, surprising her husband Wendell Corey, after returning early from a trip because of her (unfounded) suspicions about his activities, in Harriet Craig, 1950, from the 1925 Pulitzer Prize play by George Kelly.

Watch On The Rhine (1943) -- (Movie Clip) We Do Not Know Nazis Hosted by her mother (Lucile Watson) in Washington, just-returned ex-pat Sara (Bette Davis) and her German anti-fascist husband Kurt (Paul Lukas) suddenly have reason to suspect the Romanian diplomat house guest (George Coulouris), in Watch On The Rhine, 1943, from the Lillian Hellman play.

Watch On The Rhine (1943) -- (Movie Clip) We Lived Modestly And Happily Returned to the home of her Washingtonian mother (Lucile Watson) and brother (Donald Woods) after 18 years abroad, Sara (Bette Davis) tries to explain how she and German husband Kurt (Paul Lukas), whom she's just introduced, have been getting by, in Watch On The Rhine, 1943.

Garden Of Allah, The (1936) -- (Movie Clip) You May Find Yourself Staff and pupils (Helen Jerome Eddy, Marcia Mae Jones) at the convent are dazzled by beatifically framed Technicolor Marlene Dietrich as "Domini," greeted by Mother Superior (Lucile Watson), opening Richard Boleslawski's The Garden Of Allah, 1936, also starring Charles Boyer.

Never Say Goodbe (1946) -- (Movie Clip) He Can't Turn Them Off The butler (Charles Coleman) welcomes Cozy (Hattie McDaniel) to the home of still-smitten divorcee Ellen (Eleanor Parker), who gets advice from mother (Lucile Watson) before her artist ex Phil (Errol Flynn) arrives with their daughter "Flip," short for Phillippa, in Never Say Goodbye, 1946.

Women, The - (Original Trailer) A happily married woman (Norma Shearer) lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband has an affair with shopgirl Joan Crawford in The Women (1939), directed by George Cukor.

Companions

Rockcliffe Fellows

Husband

Actor. Married in the 1910s; divorced; born in 1881; died in 1950.

Louis Shipman

Husband

Playwright. Married from 1928 until his death in 1933.

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