Louise Beavers
Known for Acting · 153 credits
- Born
- 1902-03-08
- Died
- 1962-10-26
- Place of birth
- Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
- Also known as
- Louise Beaver
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Louise Beavers (March 8, 1902 – October 26, 1962) was an American film and television actress. Beavers appeared in dozens of films and two hit television shows from the 1920s until 1960, most often cast in the role of a maid, servant, or slave. She was a native of Cincinnati, Ohio, and a member of Sigma Gamma Rho sorority, one of the four African-American sororities.
Beavers was a breakthrough actress for black women and became known as a symbol of a "mammy" on the screen. A mammy archetype "is the portrayal within a narrative framework or other imagery of a black domestic servant, generally good-natured, often overweight, and loud".
Louise Beavers started her career in the 1920s. At the time, black people in films were limited to acting in only very few roles, usually as slaves or domestic help. She played the "mammy" in many of the movies she acted in. She started to gain more attention in the acting world after she played the role of Julia in Coquette, which starred Mary Pickford. In this film she played the black maid and mother figure to a young white woman.
She once received a review which stated: "Personally, Miss Beavers is just splendid, just as fine as she appears on screen, but she also has a charm all her own, which needs no screen role for recognition. She has a very pleasing personality, one that draws people to her instantly and makes them feel that they are meeting a friend instead of a Hollywood Star."
Known For
TV Shows (5)
Movies (148)
Holiday Inn
1942
as Mamie
Doctor X
1932
as Louise (Uncredited)
Reap the Wild Wind
1942
as Maum Maria
42nd Street
1933
as Pansy (uncredited)
A Southern Yankee
1948
as Laundry Woman
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
1948
as Gussie
Thunderbolt
1929
as Black Cat Cafe Patron (uncredited)
The Story of Temple Drake
1933
as Minnie
Bullets or Ballots
1936
as Nellie LaFleur
Imitation of Life
1934
as Delilah Johnson
Glamour
1934
as Millie
Wild Girl
1932
as Mammy Lou (uncredited)
Young America
1932
as Maid (Uncredited)
Primrose Path
1940
as Woman Talking to Police (uncredited)
Central Airport
1933
as Hotel Maid (uncredited)
Belle Starr
1941
as Mammy Lou
Millie
1931
as Maid (uncredited)
Back Pay
1930
as Nellie - Hester's Maid
Midnight Mary
1933
as Mary's Maid Anna (uncredited)
Make Way for Tomorrow
1937
as Mamie
Girl Missing
1933
as Julie, Daisy's Maid (Uncredited)
The Goddess
1958
as The Cook
Reform School
1939
as Mother Barton
Manslaughter
1930
as Rose
Brother Rat
1938
as Jenny
Good Sam
1948
as Chloe
The Big Street
1942
as Ruby (uncredited)
Only Yesterday
1933
as Abby (Uncredited)
The Midnight Patrol
1933
as Maid (scenes deleted)
Hunting Trouble
1933
as Lucy
Follow the Boys
1944
as Louise Beavers (uncredited)
Scandal Street
1938
as Clairce
Kisses for Breakfast
1941
as Clotilda
Gambling Lady
1934
as Suzy - Peter's Cook (uncredited)
Du Barry Was a Lady
1943
as Niagara
She Done Him Wrong
1933
as Pearl
Bombshell
1933
as Loretta
Tammy and the Bachelor
1957
as Osia
Shadow of the Thin Man
1941
as Stella
Made for Each Other
1939
as Lily (uncredited)
Bright Lights
1930
as Angela
Teenage Rebel
1956
as Willamay
In the Money
1933
as Lily
There's Something About a Soldier
1943
as Birdie
Colorado Sundown
1952
as Mattie, Jackie's Maid
The Strange Love of Molly Louvain
1932
as Washroom Attendant (uncredited)
Our Blushing Brides
1930
as Amelia - The Mannequins' Maid (uncredited)
Delightfully Dangerous
1945
as Hannah
Pick-up
1933
as Magnolia (uncredited)
General Spanky
1936
as Cornelia
Top Man
1943
as Cleo
Paid
1930
as Convict (uncredited)
My Blue Heaven
1950
as Selma
Bedside
1934
as Pansy
Women Without Names
1940
as Ivory
All the Fine Young Cannibals
1960
as Rose
Young America
1942
as Pansy
Glad Rag Doll
1929
as Hannah
Wings Over Honolulu
1937
as Mammy
What Price Hollywood?
1932
as Mary's Maid Bonita
The Last Gangster
1937
as Gloria
You Can't Run Away from It
1956
as Maid
A Shriek in the Night
1933
as Maid
Hell's Highway
1932
as Rascal's Sweetheart at Visitor's Center (uncredited)
Dr. Monica
1934
as Sarah - Mary's Maid (uncredited)
The Vanishing Virginian
1942
as Aunt Emmeline
Reckless Living
1931
as Maid
For the Love of Mary
1948
as Bertha
A Modern Hero
1934
as Azais's Maid
Coquette
1929
as Julia
The Facts of Life
1960
as Gussie
Dixie Jamboree
1944
as Opal / Sam the Deckhand
The Jackie Robinson Story
1950
as Jackie's Mother
Virginia
1941
as Ophelia
Girls About Town
1931
as Hattie
Divorce In The Family
1932
as Rosetta
Ladies of the Big House
1931
as Ivory
Notorious But Nice
1933
as Ophelia
Unashamed
1932
as Amanda
I've Got Your Number
1934
as Crystal
Night World
1932
as Maid (uncredited)
Good-bye, My Lady
1956
as Bonnie Drew
Party Husband
1931
as Laura's Maid
The Woman Condemned
1934
as Sally
Sundown Trail
1931
as Auntie Jenny
Lover Come Back
1946
as Martha / Martha, Kay's Maid
Never Wave at a WAC
1953
as Artamesa
Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus
1938
as Cassey
No Time for Comedy
1940
as Clementine
Street of Women
1932
as Mattie, Natalie's maid
Palooka
1934
as Crystal
All by Myself
1943
as Willie
Wives Never Know
1936
as Florabelle
Outside the Law
1930
as Judy the Maid
Annapolis Farewell
1935
as Miranda
The Dark Horse
1932
as Kay's Maid Levinnia
The Expert
1932
as Lulu
Young Widow
1946
as Rosie
Strictly Fresh Yeggs
1934
as Maid
Hold Your Man
1933
as Elite Club Attendant (uncredited)
Beggar's Holiday
1934
as Heliotrope
Honey
1930
as Black Revivalist
Her Bodyguard
1933
as Margot's Maid
Parole Fixer
1940
as Aunt Lindy
Tell It to the Judge
1949
as Cleo, Marsha's Maid (uncredited)
Registered Nurse
1934
as Flo - Sadie's Maid
She Couldn't Say No
1930
as Cora
Good Morning, Judge
1943
as Cleo
Merry Wives of Reno
1934
as Derwent's Client - Black Mother of 12 Wanting a Divorce (uncredited)
Rainbow on the River
1936
as Toinette
Life Goes On
1938
as Sally Weston
Seven Sweethearts
1942
as Petunia, the Maid
Banjo
1947
as Lindy
True to the Navy
1930
as Maid (uncredited)
Good Sport
1931
as September
Barbary Coast Gent
1944
as Bedelia
The Big Cage
1933
as Mandy
The Merry Frinks
1934
as Camille
South of Dixie
1944
as Magnolia Brown / Chloe
I Believed in You
1934
as Prisoner
About Louise Beavers
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Louise Beavers (March 8, 1902 – October 26, 1962) was an American film and television actress. Beavers appeared in dozens of films and two hit television shows from the 1920s until 1960, most often cast in the role of a maid, servant, or slave. She was a native of Cincinnati, Ohio, and a member of Sigma Gamma Rho sorority, one of the four African-American sororities. Beavers was a breakthrough actress for black women and became known as a symbol of a "mammy" on the screen. A mammy archetype "is the portray… With 153 credits spanning from 1929 to 1970, Louise Beavers has appeared in 148 films and 5 TV shows.
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- Holiday Inn (1942) — as Mamie
- Doctor X (1932) — as Louise (Uncredited)
- Reap the Wild Wind (1942) — as Maum Maria
- 42nd Street (1933) — as Pansy (uncredited)
- A Southern Yankee (1948) — as Laundry Woman
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