Cora Witherspoon
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Cora Witherspoon was an American actress who played supporting roles in films from the 1930s until the 1950s.
Witherspoon's film appearances include Libeled Lady
(1936), Madame X
(1937), Quality Street
(1937), Marie Antoinette
(1938), Dark Victory
(1939), The Women
(1939), The Mating Season
(1951), and It Should Happen to You
(1954). One of her more substantial roles was as W. C. Fields
' harridan wife in The Bank Dick
(1940).
Witherspoon's film appearances include Libeled Lady
Libeled Lady
Libeled Lady is a 1936 screwball comedy film starring Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy and Spencer Tracy, written by George Oppenheimer, Howard Emmett Rogers, Wallace Sullivan and Maurine Dallas Watkins, and directed by Jack Conway....
(1936), Madame X
Madame X (1937 film)
Madame X is a drama film, a sanitized remake of several Pre-Code films of the same name. It was directed by Sam Wood with additional direction by Gustav Machatý .-Plot:...
(1937), Quality Street
Quality Street (film)
Quality Street is a 1937 period comedy film made by RKO. It was directed by George Stevens and produced by Pandro S. Berman. The screenplay was by Allan Scott, Mortimer Offner and Jack Townley, based on the 1901 play by James M. Barrie...
(1937), Marie Antoinette
Marie Antoinette
Marie Antoinette ; 2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793) was an Archduchess of Austria and the Queen of France and of Navarre. She was the fifteenth and penultimate child of Holy Roman Empress Maria Theresa and Holy Roman Emperor Francis I....
(1938), Dark Victory
Dark Victory
Dark Victory is a 1939 American drama film directed by Edmund Goulding and starring Bette Davis, George Brent, Humphrey Bogart, and Ronald Reagan...
(1939), The Women
The Women (1939 film)
The Women is a 1939 American comedy-drama film directed by George Cukor. The film is based on Clare Boothe Luce's play of the same name, and was adapted for the screen by Anita Loos and Jane Murfin, who had to make the film acceptable for the Production Code in order for it to be released.The film...
(1939), The Mating Season
The Mating Season (film)
The Mating Season is a 1951 classic farce with elements of screwball comedy. A film made by Paramount Pictures, it was directed by Mitchell Leisen and produced by Charles Brackett from a screenplay by Charles Brackett, Richard Breen and Walter Reisch, based on the play Maggie by Caesar Dunn...
(1951), and It Should Happen to You
It Should Happen to You
It Should Happen to You is a romantic comedy film starring Judy Holliday, notable as the first screen appearance of Jack Lemmon, who was then an aspiring young actor. The film was directed by George Cukor and filmed on location in New York City...
(1954). One of her more substantial roles was as W. C. Fields
W. C. Fields
William Claude Dukenfield , better known as W. C. Fields, was an American comedian, actor, juggler and writer...
' harridan wife in The Bank Dick
The Bank Dick
The Bank Dick is a 1940 comedy film. W. C. Fields plays a character named Egbert Sousé who trips a bank robber and ends up a security guard as a result...
(1940).