- Pauline Frederrick, This Modern Age, 1931. The veteraN character actress from Broadway fell ill – or “ill” – and was subbed by Frederick in what the star, Joan Crawford, called… Forget This Modern Age.
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Judith Anderson, Lady Scarface, 1941. After taking lessons as Mrs Danvers, Anderson took over the female gangster hunted by Dennis O’Keefe’s cop from Rambeau.
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Katina Paxinou, For Whom The Bell Tolls, 1942. A triple Oscar-nominee, Marjorie lost in the clinches with such the old-timers as Fay Bainter, Ethel Barrymore, Pola Negri, Alla Nazimova, Flora Robson, Norma Talmadge. Plus Gloria Swanson… whose former lover, Cecil B DeMille had earlier planned his own version of the Ernest Hemingway book.
- Mary Philips, Lady in the Dark, 1943. Dreaming of re-uniting Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers after a five year break, Paramount bought the Broadway show for a then record $283,000 – won Ginger, lost Fred… and Rambeau as Maggie Grant. Philips was the second of four Mrs Humphrey Bogarts.
- Edward G Robinson, The Ten Commandments, 1954.
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