Biography
Clara Blandick (born Clara Blanchard Dickey) was an American stage and screen actress best known for her role as Auntie Em in the beloved 1939 classic film The Wizard of Oz.
Known For
Complete Filmography
The Dark Side of Oz
1995
as Auntie Em (archive footage)
Pink Floyd Meets The Wizard of Oz
Riding High
1950
as Mrs. Peterson (archive footage) (uncredited)
A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race.
Key to the City
1950
as Liza, Silas' housekeeper
At a mayors convention in San Francisco, ex-longshoreman Steve Fisk meets Clarissa Standish from New England. Fisk is mayor of "Puget City" and is pro...
Mr. Soft Touch
1949
as Susan Balmuss
When he learns that a gangster has taken over his nightclub and murdered his partner, returning WWII hero Joe Miracle steals the money from the club's...
The Bride Goes Wild
1948
as Aunt Pewtie
McGrath publishes books for children and Uncle Bump is one of the best sellers. Unfortunately, Greg, who is Uncle Bump, tends to drink too much and ha...
Life with Father
1947
as Miss Wiggins
A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.
Philo Vance Returns
1947
as Stella Blendon
Playboy Larry Blendon introduces his grandmother Stella Blendon to his fiancée, radio singer Virginia Berneaux. Despite Larry's record of broken roman...
She-Wolf of London
1946
as Mrs. McBroom (uncredited)
A young heiress finds evidence suggesting that at night she acts under the influence of a family curse and has begun committing ghastly murders in a n...
So Goes My Love
1946
as Mrs. Meade
Country girl Jane Budden goes to the big city, determined to find and marry a wealthy man. Instead, she meets and marries Herman Maxim, a struggling i...
A Stolen Life
1946
as Martha
A twin takes her deceased sister's place as wife of the man they both love.
Claudia and David
1946
as Mrs. Barry
The follow-up film to "Claudia", with Dorothy McGuire and Robert Young reprising their earlier roles as a young married couple living in a small Conne...
People Are Funny
1946
as Grandma Wilson
A comedy based on NBC's "People Are Funny" radio (and later television) program with Art Linkletter with a fictional story of how the program came to ...
Frontier Gal
1945
as Abigail
Johnny Hart (Rod Cameron) is on the run from the law after killing one of the men who shot his partner. He passes through a town and stops at a saloon...
Pillow of Death
1945
as Belle Kincaid
Attorney Wayne Fletcher and his secretary have an affair. When Wayne's wife is found smothered to death, he becomes the prime suspect. As the police i...
Can't Help Singing
1944
as Aunt Cissy
With the California Gold Rush beginning, Senator Frost's singing daughter Caroline loves a young army officer; the Senator can't stand him, and has hi...
Shadow of Suspicion
1944
as Mother Randall
Brash ladies' man James Dale and his partner, wisecracking Everett Northrup, are sent by Cartell & Co. jewelers to safeguard the arrival of the fa...
Du Barry Was a Lady
1943
as Old Lady on Subway (uncredited)
Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is in love with a poor dancer but wants to marry for money. When Loui...
Heaven Can Wait
1943
as Grandmother Van Cleve (uncredited)
Spoiled playboy Henry van Cleve dies and arrives at the entrance to Hell, a final destination he is sure he deserves after living a life of profligacy...
Gentleman Jim
1942
as Woman on Train (uncredited)
As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the...
Road to Morocco
1942
as Aunt Lucy in Photo (uncredited)
Two carefree castaways on a desert shore find an Arabian Nights city, where they compete for the luscious Princess Shalmar.
Lady in a Jam
1942
as Tourist (uncredited)
A psychiatrist's patient, a nutty heiress, travels west to find gold in her grandfather's abandoned mine. The psychiatrist, unable to talk her out of ...
Rings on Her Fingers
1942
Susan Miller works behind the girdle counter in a department store and dreams about the beautiful clothes and glamour she can never hope to have. Ente...
One Foot in Heaven
1941
as Sister Watkins (uncredited)
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
It Started with Eve
1941
as Nurse
A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father's last moments happy. However, the old man's health takes a...
Private Nurse
1941
as Miss Phillips
In this brief B programmer, a nurse is hired to care for a widower's daughter who is unaware that her father is a gangster and that her mother is actu...
The Big Store
1941
as Customer Seeking Record (uncredited)
A detective is hired to protect the life of a singer, who has recently inherited a department store, from the store's crooked manager.
The Get-Away
1941
as Mrs. Higgins
A jailed cop befriends a mob chieftain and stages a breakout with him.
The Nurse's Secret
1941
as Aunt Juliet Mitchell
An apparent suicide by a rich woman leads her nurse and a policeman to an insurance scam.
The Wagons Roll at Night
1941
as Mrs. Williams
An escaped circus lion provides the impetus for the meeting of carnival owner Nick Coster and Matt Varney, a small-town man who suddenly becomes a lio...
Youth Will Be Served
1940
as Miss Bradshaw
A precocious youngster organizes a show to save a government youth camp from a local entrepreneur.
North West Mounted Police
1940
as Mrs. Burns
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Cor...
Dreaming Out Loud
1940
as Jessica Spencer
Lum and Abner work at a general store in Arkansas. There they get involved in some misadventures with the locals.
Tomboy
1940
as Aunt Martha
Family drama about a father raising his motherless teenage daughter in a small town.
Alice in Movieland
1940
as Grandmother
Alice wins a free trip to Hollywood and dreams about her arrival.
Swanee River
1939
as Mrs. Griffin
Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, t...
Drums Along the Mohawk
1939
as Mrs. Borst
Albany, New York, 1776. After marrying, Gil and Lana travel north to settle on a small farm in the Mohawk River Valley, but soon their growing prosper...
The Star Maker
1939
as Miss Esther Jones
This is a film about the life of Gus Edwards, a well known vaudeville composer, entertainer, and producer.
The Wizard of Oz
1939
as Auntie Em
Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and a tin man as they make their way along the yellow ...
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1939
as Miss Watson
Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by...
Tom Sawyer, Detective
1938
as Aunt Polly
The further adventures of Twain's most beloved fictional characters of Tom Sawyer and his friend, Huckleberry Finn.
Swing, Sister, Swing
1938
as Ma Sisler
In this musical comedy, two star-struck small town kids head for the Big Apple and become famous for their jitterbug act. Their fame doesn't last long...
Professor Beware
1938
as Mrs. Green - Landlady
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the po...
Crime Ring
1938
as Phoebe Sawyer
Fake fortunetellers win the confidence of clients and then get them to part with their money by buying mining stocks which are worthless.
My Old Kentucky Home
1938
as Julia 'Granny' Blair
Larry is engaged to Lisbeth Blair but he becomes attentive to Gail, a singer, and is injured in an accident in her apartment. He is slowly going blind...
Small Town Boy
1937
as Mrs. Armstrong
Henry Armstrong was past being a spring chicken, still believes in Santa Claus and the maxim that "honesty is the best policy", but lack of money keep...
You Can't Have Everything
1937
as Townswoman (uncredited)
Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon t...
The Road Back
1937
as Willy's Mother
After the First World War a group of German soldiers try to readjust to civilian life. A sequel to 'All Quiet on the Western Front'.
Wings Over Honolulu
1937
as Evie Curtis
A Navy pilot gets involved in a romantic triangle while stationed in Hawaii.
A Star Is Born
1937
as Aunt Mattie (uncredited)
Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her ido...
Her Husband's Secretary
1937
as Agatha 'Aunt Gussie' Kingdon
A businessman buys trouble when he hires his wife"s best friend as his secretary.
Make Way for a Lady
1936
as Mrs. Dell, Drew's Maid
An imaginative teenager decides to play matchmaker for her widowed father. Director David Burton's 1936 comedy stars Herbert Marshall, Anne Shirley, G...
In His Steps
1936
as Martha Adams
Tom and Ruth are disowned by their parents after eloping. They take up jobs as tenant farmers and and learn the true value of marriage, working and li...
The Gorgeous Hussy
1936
as Louisa Abbott
It's the early nineteenth century Washington. Young adult Margaret O'Neal, Peggy to most that know her, is the daughter of Major William O'Neal, who i...
Anthony Adverse
1936
as Mrs. Jorham
Based on the novel by Hervey Allen, this expansive drama follows the many adventures of the eponymous hero, Anthony Adverse. Abandoned at a convent by...
The Case of the Velvet Claws
1936
as Mary F. O'Daugherty
Perry and Della are finally married by his old friend, Judge Mary. They plan to go on a honeymoon, but before it can start, Perry is retained by a wom...
Hearts Divided
1936
as Aunt Ellen
Napoleon Bonaparte's younger brother, visiting the United States, falls madly in love with a young woman he meets in Baltimore.
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
1936
as Gaptown Landlady
A well-established tale of a long-running feud between two mountain clans.
Party Wire
1935
as Mathilda Sherman
When a small-town girl's boyfriend leaves in disgrace, gossips spread false reports of her pregnancy.
Straight from the Heart
1935
as Mrs. Anderson
In this romance, a slightly crooked and highly ambitious mayoral candidate convinces a woman to help him blackmail the incumbent by using a little bab...
Transient Lady
1935
as Eva Branham
A senator's brother turns up murdered, and the senator tries to pin the blame on a man he knows is innocent.
The Winning Ticket
1935
as Aunt Maggie
A barber tries to find the winning lottery ticket he hid from his moralistic wife.
Fugitive Lady
1934
as Aunt Margaret
In this thriller, a young woman marries a dashing young man who, unbeknownst to her, is a jewel thief.
Broadway Bill
1934
as Mrs. Peterson
Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons-in-law, Dan Brooks, and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Brooks quits his j...
Jealousy
1934
as Mrs. Douglas
Larry O'Roark is a boxer who's insanely posssesive and jealous of his fiancee, Jo. the sight of her and her employer, Mr. Lambert, at ringside during ...
The President Vanishes
1934
as Mrs. Delling
The President Vanishes, released in the United Kingdom as Strange Conspiracy, is a 1934 American political drama film directed by William A. Wellman a...
The Girl from Missouri
1934
as Miss Newberry
Leaving Missouri to find a wealthy husband in New York City, Eadie Chapman becomes a chorus girl and soon entertains at the lavish home of millionaire...
Harold Teen
1934
as Ma Lovewell
A young reporter pines for his high-school sweetheart, but she's preoccupied with appearing in their small town's community musical show. This 1934 co...
The Show-Off
1934
as Mrs. 'Ma'
Aubrey cons Amy into thinking he's a railroad bigwig. When he loses his job he takes one wearing a sandwich board. After he helps Joe sell his patent ...
As the Earth Turns
1934
as Cora
Love happens between the son of Polish immigrants settled in Maine and the daughter of a neighboring farm family.
Beloved
1934
as Miss Murfee
Story about four generations in a family of musicians.
Going Hollywood
1933
as Ms. Perkins
The film tells the story of Sylvia, a French teacher at an all-girl school, who wants to find love. When she hears Bill Williams on the radio, she dec...
Ever in My Heart
1933
as Anna, the Cook
World War I brings tribulations to an American woman married to a German.
Charlie Chan's Greatest Case
1933
as Minerva Winterslip
When a good-for-nothing man named Dan is stabbed to death and his arm broken, Charlie Chan is on the case. His first clue comes from the victim's sist...
Turn Back the Clock
1933
as Mrs. Gimlet, Joe's Mother
While recuperating in a hospital after he's hit by an automobile, a struggling shopowner dreams what his life might have been like if he'd made differ...
Three Cornered Moon
1933
as Ronald’s Landlady (uncredited)
Elizabeth Rimplegar inhabits a household populated by virtual lunatics. Her mother, Nellie, mishandled the family fortune, and, alas, the stock market...
The Mind Reader
1933
as Auntie (uncredited)
Con-man Chandler and his partner Frank decide to start a clairvoyant act. Chandler falls for Sylvia, one of their marks, but their relationship is cha...
Child of Manhattan
1933
as Aunt Sophie
Paul Vanderkill is extraordinarily wealthy because his grandfather happened to buy farmland in what was to become Midtown Manhattan. The Loveland Danc...
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
1932
as Mrs. Jackson (uncredited)
An American missionary is gradually seduced by a courtly warlord holding her in Shanghai.
Rockabye
1932
as Brida
A Broadway actress with a problematic past falls hard for the author of her new play.
Three on a Match
1932
as Mrs. Keaton (uncredited)
Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery ...
Life Begins
1932
as Mrs. West
A day in the maternity ward from the lens of accepted morals and medical attitudes of 1932. The ward includes women from all walks of life and situati...
The Strange Case of Clara Deane
1932
as Mrs. Lyons (scenes deleted)
A young dress designer marries an insurance agent. They soon have a daughter, but what the wife doesn't know is that her husband is actually a crimina...
The Wet Parade
1932
as Mrs. Tarleton
The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich Chilcote family and the hard working Tarleton fami...
Shopworn
1932
as Mrs. Helen Livingston
A waitress falls for a wealthy young man but has to fight his mother to find happiness.
Possessed
1931
as Mrs. Martin
Marion is a factory worker who hopes to trade the assembly line for a beautiful penthouse apartment. Mark Whitney, a wealthy and influential lawyer, c...
New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford
1931
as Mrs. Layton
Wallingford is a con-man whose specialty is taking money from suckers. His partners are Schnozzle, a pickpocket and car thief; and Blackie, who has pl...
Murder at Midnight
1931
as Aunt Julia Gray Kennedy
Wealthy Mr. Kennedy shoots his secretary, Channing, during a parlor game, but it turns out the gun was loaded with real bullets. Luckily, criminologis...
Bought!
1931
as Mrs. Sprig
Working-class girl dreams of living a better life and forsakes her friends when she has a chance to break into high society.
Huckleberry Finn
1931
as Aunt Polly
A year after their former exploits, Tom Sawyer's puppy love of Becky Thatcher keeps him home while Huck Finn, chafing under "civilizing" influences li...
I Take This Woman
1931
as Ranch Wife
A wealthy New York socialite falls for and marries a cowboy while out West. Her father disinherits her, and after trying to make a go of it as a cowbo...
Laughing Sinners
1931
as Salvation Army Woman
Ivy Stevens is a cafe entertainer in love with a shifty salesman who deserts her. In attempting to commit suicide, she is saved by Carl, a Salvation A...
Daybreak
1931
as Frau Hoffman
An Austrian soldier must choose between a wealthy fiancee and a new girl who takes his fancy.
It's a Wise Child
1931
as Mrs. Stanton
In this comedy, a conservative family becomes alarmed when they begin believing their daughter is pregnant.
The Drums of Jeopardy
1931
as Aunt Abbie
A mad doctor is determined to take revenge on the family he believes is responsible for his daughter's death.
The Easiest Way
1931
as Agnes Murdock
Growing up in a poor working-class family, Laura Murdock decides not to marry the boy next door and instead accepts wealthy, older William Brockton's ...
Inspiration
1931
as Madeleine's Mother (uncredited)
The film features the leading actress Greta Garbo as Yvonne, an artist's model. Other stars include Robert Montgomery, Lewis Stone, Marjorie Rambeau a...
Once a Sinner
1931
as Mrs. Mason
As Diana Barry is preparing to leave New York to marry inventor Tommy Mason she is offered financial assistance from her ex-lover Dick Kent, who still...
Tom Sawyer
1930
as Aunt Polly
The classic Mark Twain tale of a young boy and his friends on the Mississippi River. Tom and his pals Huckleberry Finn and Joe Harper have numerous ad...
The Last of the Duanes
1930
as Mrs. Duane
Buck Duane avenges his father's murder by gunning down the killer, but must flee from the law. He finds Ruth, whom he once loved, in the clutches of t...
Romance
1930
as Abigail Armstrong
A beautiful opera star kept by a rich older man falls in love with a young clergyman.
The Sins of the Children
1930
as Martha Wagenkampf
A barber turns down a promising business venture in order to take his sick son to a drier climate out west.
Men Are Like That
1930
as Ma Fisher
A loud-mouthed lout alienates everyone except his patient wife.
The Girl Said No
1930
as Mrs. Ward
A comedy romance in which breezy Haines, as a young lady killer, tries to capture the heart of Hyams who has turned him down for Bushman. Haines plot...
Burning Up
1930
as Mrs. Minnie Winkle
Racecar-driver Lou Larrigan gets mixed up with a crooked gang of racetrack promoters, and is in love with Ruth Morgan, whose father is marked as a vic...
Poor Aubrey
1930
as Mrs. Fisher - Aubrey's Mother-in-Law
A poor clerk pretends that he has lots of money.
Wise Girls
1929
as Mrs. Bence
Early MGM talkie about a retired businessman, his headstrong daughter, and the comical complications that result when she marries in haste.
The Stolen Triumph
1916
as Mrs. Rowley
The Cabaret Singer
1915
as Mrs. Denton
The Denton's marital happiness brings home to Randall the loneliness of his own existence. Shortly afterwards, the young man meets Pearl Eltinge, a ca...