Laura Hope Crews

Actor

About

Birth Place

San Francisco, California, USA

Born

December 12, 1879

Died

November 13, 1942

Filmography

The Flame of New Orleans (1941)

Auntie

One Foot in Heaven (1941)

Mrs. Preston Thurston

I'm Nobody's Sweetheart Now (1940)

Mrs. Lowell

The Girl from Avenue A (1940)

Mrs. Forrester

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Silver Cord, The (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Some Women Cannot

Silver Cord, The (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Let Me Look At You Now

Biography

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

The Flame of New Orleans (1941)

Auntie

One Foot in Heaven (1941)

Mrs. Preston Thurston

I'm Nobody's Sweetheart Now (1940)

Mrs. Lowell

The Girl from Avenue A (1940)

Mrs. Forrester

Lady with Red Hair (1940)

Mrs. Dudley

Remember? (1939)

Mrs. Carruthers

Idiot's Delight (1939)

Madame Zuleika

The Star Maker (1939)

Carlotta Salvini

Reno (1939)

Mrs. Gardner

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)

The Rains Came (1939)

Lily Hoggett-Egburry

Gone With the Wind (1939)

Aunt Pittypat Hamilton

Thanks for the Memory (1938)

Mrs. Trent

Doctor Rhythm (1938)

Mrs. [Minerva] Twombling

Grand Duchess Anna Dmitrievna

Her Master's Voice (1936)

Aunt Min [Minnie Stickney]

Escapade (1935)

Countess [Feldon]

The Melody Lingers On (1935)

Mother Superior

The Age of Innocence (1934)

Mrs. [Augusta] Welland

Behold My Wife! (1934)

Mrs. Carter

Lightning Strikes Twice (1934)

Aunt Jane [Madison]

Blind Adventure (1933)

Lady Rockingham

If I Were Free (1933)

Dame Evers

Rafter Romance (1933)

Elise [Peabody Worthington Smythe]

Ever in My Heart (1933)

Grandma Archer

I Loved You Wednesday (1933)

Doc Mary Hanson

The Silver Cord (1933)

New Morals for Old (1932)

Mrs. Thomas

Charming Sinners (1929)

Mrs. Carr

Blackbirds (1915)

Leonie Sobatsky

The Fighting Hope (1915)

Anna Granger

Film Production - Main (Feature Film)

The Flame Within (1935)

Advisory Assistant

Life Events

1884

Stage acting debut

Photo Collections

Rafter Romance - Scene Stills

Here are a number of scene stills from RKO's Rafter Romance (1933), starring Ginger Rogers and Norman Foster.

Videos

Silver Cord, The (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Some Women Cannot Opening with top-billed Irene Dunne with a tiny but nifty bit of German, as scientist Christina, Joel McCrea her American architect husband, and an uncredited Gustav von Seyffertitz as her boss, John Cromwell directing from the hit Sidney Howard play, in RKO's The Silver Cord, 1933.

Silver Cord, The (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Let Me Look At You Now Snapping forward as German-born Christina scientist (Irene Dunne) and her architect husband (Joel McCrea) arrive from Heidelberg at his family country home, meeting his brother’s fianceè (Frances Dee) then Robert (Eric Linden), and Laura Hope Crews their mother, in her celebrated Broadway role, in The Silver Cord, 1933.

Camille (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Buy Me Some Sweets Mid 19th-century Paris courtesan Marguerite (Greta Garbo) thinks Armand (Robert Taylor) is the Baron with whom she's being set up, as they first meet at the theater, until her friend Prudence (Laura Hope Crews) shows up, in MGM's Camille, 1936.

Camille (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Marguerite Gautier A mild literary prologue then the introduction of Marguerite (Greta Garbo), as the "lady of the camelias," thus the name of the story, with friend prudence (Laura Hope Crews), George Cukor directing, in MGM's Camille, 1936.

Angel (1937) -- (Movie Clip) Beginning To Spread Both in Paris on business subtly not explained in Samson Raphaelson’s script, Marlene Dietrich as pseudonymous continental “Mrs. Brown” at the high-class bordello-ish home of the “Grand Duchess,” for whom she is mistaken by English Halton (Melvyn Douglas), their first encounter, in Ernst Lubitsch’s Angel, 1937.

Age Of Innocence, The (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Straight Up And Down-ness The Wellands (Laura Hope Crews, Herbert Yost, Julie Haydon as "May"), and fiance` Newland (John Boles) with Grandmother (Helen Westley), worry about cousin Countess Olenska (Irene Dunne), who arrives with Beaufort (Lionel Atwill), in RKO's 1934 version of Edith Wharton's The Age Of Innocence.

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Film Production - Main (Feature Film)

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1884

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