Louise Fazenda

Actor

About

Birth Place

Lafayette, Indiana, USA

Born

June 17, 1889

Died

April 17, 1962

Cause of Death

Cerebral Hemorrhage

Biography

One of the premiere comics of the silent screen, Fazenda continued as a successful character actress through the 1930s....

Filmography

Down on the Farm (1938)

Aunt Ida Sampson

Swing Your Lady (1938)

Sadie

Ready, Willing and Able (1937)

Clara Heineman

The Road Back (1937)

Angelina

Photos & Videos

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Wide Open (1930) -- (Movie Clip) It Isn't Gentile

Old Maid, The (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Socially Important

Family & Companions

Hal B Wallis

Husband

Producer.

Biography

One of the premiere comics of the silent screen, Fazenda continued as a successful character actress through the 1930s.

Filmography

Life Events

1913

Film acting debut at Universal

1915

Joined Mack Sennett's Keystone

Videos

Wide Open (1930) -- (Movie Clip) It Isn't Gentile Timid bachelor bookkeeper Simon (Edward Everett Horton) is already under assault, by happenstance in the phonograph company’s recording studio, from amorous stenographer Agatha (Louis Fazenda), when the boss, a client and the star salesman (E.J. Ratcliffe, Vincent Barnett, T. Roy Barnes) intrude, in Warner Bros. and director Archie Mayo’s Wide Open, 1930.

Old Maid, The (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Socially Important Opening the first of two famous pairings of formidable actors (see Old Acquaintance, 1943), Miriam Hopkins as pre-nuptial Delia, Bette Davis her cousin, de-facto sister, Charlotte, Cecilia Loftus their mutual grandmother, Donald Crisp the family doctor, in The Old Maid, 1939, from the Edith Wharton novel.

Loose Ankles (1930) -- (Movie Clip) Two Wallas An especially buoyant opening, original song by Jack Meskill and Pete Wendling, Loretta Young and Inez Courtney as insouciant cousins Ann and Betty, various relatives gathering for the reading of a will, Otis Harlan as "The Major" presiding, in the early talkie Loose Ankles, 1930.

First Lady - (Original Trailer) Kay Francis wants to be First Lady (1937) in the movie version of the Broadway hit comedy by George S. Kaufman and Katharine Dayton.

Broadway Gondolier - (Original Trailer) Joan Blondell and Adolphe Menjou cut up with Frank McHugh in the trailer for the "radio romance" Broadway Gondolier (1935).

Alice in Wonderland (1933) - (Original Trailer) A trip through the looking glass and down a rabbit hole sends an English girl into a world of fantastic characters and strange potions in Alice in Wonderland (1933).

Widow From Monte Carlo, The - (Original Trailer) The Widow From Monte Carlo (1936) enlists an American thief (Warren William) to save her from blackmail.

Swing Your Lady - (Original Trailer) Humphrey Bogart as a wrestling promoter? In Kentucky? Only Swing Your Lady (1938) can provide an explanation.

Old Maid, The - (Original Trailer) An unmarried mother gives her illegitimate child to her cousin in The Old Maid (1939) starring Bette Davis.

I Married A Doctor - (Original Trailer) An idealistic city girl (Josephine Hutchinson) moves to the country in an adaptation of Sinclair Lewis' award-winning novel Main Street.

Ready, Willing and Able - (Original Trailer) Ruby Keeler is already a star and British to boot in the Warner Brothers musical Ready, Willing and Able (1937).

Colleen - (Original Trailer) Dick Powell plays an eccentric millionaire who hires a gold digger (Ruby Keeler) to run his business in the musical Colleen (1936).

Noah's Ark (1929) -- (Re-issue Trailer) Noah's Ark (1929), an expensive Biblical epic made at the dawn of talkies.

Wonder Bar - (Original Trailer) The denizens of a Parisian night club deal with murder and romance in the pre-code musical Wonder Bar (1934) starring Al Jolson.

Family

Brent Wallis

Son

Companions

Hal B Wallis

Husband

Producer.

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1913

1915

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