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Blanche Friderici was a noted American stage and screen actress, her film career beginning in 1920. She is probably best remembered for her roles in Night Nurse (1931), A Farewell to Arms (1932), and Flying Down to Rio (1933). Although today typically indicated to have been born on 21 January 1878, Friderici's actual birth date was 12 September 1873, per multiple reliable records (including her Brooklyn, New York birth record) from throughout her lifetime.

It Happened One Night
as Zeke's Wife

All of Me
as Miss Haskell

Flying Down to Rio
as Elena De Rezende

The Way to Love
as Rosalie

Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men
as Aunt Katherine

Man of the Forest
as Peg Forney

Hold Your Man
as Mrs. Wagner

Adorable
as Countess

The Barbarian
as Mrs. Hume

Alimony Madness
as Mrs. Van

Secrets
as Martha Marlowe

Buffalo Stampede
as Jane Jett

Cynara
as Concerned Mother in Courtroom (uncredited)

A Farewell to Arms
as Head Nurse

If I Had a Million
as Mrs. Garvey (uncredited)

Three on a Match
as Miss Blazer (uncredited)

Thirteen Women
as Miss Kirsten

The Night Club Lady
as Mrs. Carewe

Love Me Tonight
as Third Aunt

Miss Pinkerton
as Mary

State's Attorney
as Night Court Judge (uncredited)

So Big!
as Widow Paarlenburg (uncredited)

Young Bride
as Librarian Margaret Gordon

Lady with a Past
as Nora

The Hatchet Man
as Madame Si-Si (uncredited)

Mata Hari
as Sister Angelica

Honor of the Family
as Mme. Boris

Wicked
as Mrs. Johnson

Friends and Lovers
as Lady Allice

A Dangerous Affair
as Letty Randolph

The Woman Between
as Mrs. Weston

Murder by the Clock
as Julia Endicott

Night Nurse
as Mrs. Maxwell

Woman Hungry
as Mrs. Temple

Ten Cents a Dance
as Mrs. Blanchard

The Cat Creeps
as Mam' Pleasant

Kismet
as Narjis

Billy the Kid
as Mrs. McSween

The Office Wife
as Kate Halsey

Numbered Men
as Mrs. Miller

Courage
as Aunt Caroline

The Bad One
as Madame Durand

Soldiers and Women
as Martha

A Notorious Affair
as Lady Teel (uncredited)

The Girl Said No
as Mrs. McAndrews

Personality
as Ma

Trifles
as Mrs. Peters

The Trespasser
as Miss Potter the Nurse

Jazz Heaven
as Mrs. Langley

The Awful Truth
as Mrs. Leeson

Wonder of Women
as Tromholt's Housekeeper

Stolen Love
as Aunt Evvie

Fleetwing
as Furja

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
as Miss Chapman

Sadie Thompson
as Mrs. Alfred Davidson

39 East
as Miss McMasters