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Clara Blandick was an American stage and screen actress best known for her role as Aunt Em in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's The Wizard of Oz (1939).
As a character actress, she often played eccentric elderly matriarchs.
Birth Name
Clara Dickey
Born
Sunday, 04 June 1876
Died
Sunday, 15 April 1962
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| These Amazing Shadows | Auntie Em | 2011 |
| Because of the Wonderful Things It Does: The Legacy of Oz | Auntie Em | 2005 |
| Ford Star Jubilee | Auntie Em | 1955 |
| Love That Brute | Landlady | 1950 |
| Riding High | Mrs. Peterson | 1950 |
| Key to the City | Liza, Silas' housekeeper | 1950 |
| The Silver Theatre | Mrs. Jackson | 1949 |
| Roots in the Soil | 1949 | |
| Mr. Soft Touch | Susan Balmuss | 1949 |
| The Bride Goes Wild | Aunt Pewtie | 1948 |
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| These Amazing Shadows | Auntie Em | 2011 |
| Because of the Wonderful Things It Does: The Legacy of Oz | Auntie Em | 2005 |
| Ford Star Jubilee | Auntie Em | 1955 |
| Love That Brute | Landlady | 1950 |
| Riding High | Mrs. Peterson | 1950 |
| Key to the City | Liza, Silas' housekeeper | 1950 |
| The Silver Theatre | Mrs. Jackson | 1949 |
| Roots in the Soil | 1949 | |
| Mr. Soft Touch | Susan Balmuss | 1949 |
| The Bride Goes Wild | Aunt Pewtie | 1948 |
| Life with Father | Miss Wiggins | 1947 |
| Philo Vance Returns | Stella Blendon | 1947 |
| She-Wolf of London | Mrs. McBroom | 1946 |
| So Goes My Love | Mrs. Meade | 1946 |
| A Stolen Life | Martha | 1946 |
| Claudia and David | Mrs. Barry | 1946 |
| People Are Funny | Grandma Wilson | 1946 |
| Frontier Gal | Abigail | 1945 |
| Pillow of Death | Belle Kincaid | 1945 |
| Can't Help Singing | Aunt Cissy | 1944 |
| Shadow of Suspicion | Mother Randall | 1944 |
| Heaven Can Wait | Grandmother Van Cleve | 1943 |
| Dixie | Mrs. Mason | 1943 |
| Du Barry Was a Lady | Old Lady on Subway | 1943 |
| Gentleman Jim | Woman on Train | 1942 |
| Road to Morocco | Aunt Lucy in Photo | 1942 |
| Lady in a Jam | Tourist | 1942 |
| Rings on Her Fingers | Mrs. Beasley | 1942 |
| One Foot in Heaven | Sister Watkins | 1941 |
| It Started with Eve | Nurse | 1941 |
| Private Nurse | Miss Phillips | 1941 |
| The Big Store | Customer Seeking Record | 1941 |
| The Getaway | Mrs. Higgins | 1941 |
| The Nurse's Secret | Miss Juliet Mitchell / Aunt Juliet Mitchell | 1941 |
| The Wagons Roll at Night | Mrs. Williams | 1941 |
| Youth Will Be Served | Miss Bradshaw | 1940 |
| North West Mounted Police | Mrs. Burns | 1940 |
| Dreaming Out Loud | Jessica Spencer | 1940 |
| Anne of Windy Poplars | Mrs. Morton Pringle | 1940 |
| Tomboy | Aunt Martha | 1940 |
| Alice in Movieland | Grandmother | 1940 |
| Swanee River | Mrs. Griffin | 1940 |
| Drums Along the Mohawk | Mrs. Borst | 1939 |
| Main Street Lawyer | Matron | 1939 |
| The Star Maker | Miss Esther Jones | 1939 |
| The Wizard of Oz | Auntie Em | 1939 |
| I Was a Convict | Aunt Sarah Scarlett | 1939 |
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Miss Watson | 1939 |
| Tom Sawyer, Detective | Aunt Polly | 1938 |
| Swing, Sister, Swing | Ma Sisler | 1938 |
| Crime Ring | Phoebe Sawyer | 1938 |
| Professor Beware | Mrs. Green - Landlady | 1938 |
| My Old Kentucky Home | Julia 'Granny' Blair | 1938 |
| Small Town Boy | Mrs. Armstrong | 1937 |
| You Can't Have Everything | Townswoman | 1937 |
| The Road Back | Willy's Mother | 1937 |
| Wings Over Honolulu | Evie Curtis | 1937 |
| A Star Is Born | Aunt Mattie | 1937 |
| Her Husband's Secretary | Agatha 'Aunt Gussie' Kingdon | 1937 |
| Make Way for a Lady | Mrs. Dell, Drew's Maid / Mrs. Dell - Drew's Maid | 1936 |
| In His Steps | Martha Adams | 1936 |
| The Gorgeous Hussy | Louisa Abbott | 1936 |
| Anthony Adverse | Mrs. Jorham | 1936 |
| The Case of the Velvet Claws | Judge Mary F. O'Daugherty / Mary F. O'Daugherty | 1936 |
| Hearts Divided | Aunt Ellen | 1936 |
| The Trail of the Lonesome Pine | Gaptown Landlady | 1936 |
| Party Wire | Mathilda Sherman | 1935 |
| Princess O'Hara | Miss Van Cortland | 1935 |
| Transient Lady | Eva Branham | 1935 |
| The Winning Ticket | Aunt Maggie | 1935 |
| The President Vanishes | Mrs. Delling | 1935 |
| Fugitive Lady | Aunt Margaret | 1934 |
| Broadway Bill | Mrs. Peterson | 1934 |
| The Girl from Missouri | Miss Newberry | 1934 |
| Sisters Under the Skin | Miss Gower | 1934 |
| Harold Teen | Ma Lovewell | 1934 |
| The Show-Off | Mrs. 'Ma' / Mrs. 'Ma' Fisher | 1934 |
| As the Earth Turns | Cora | 1934 |
| Beloved | Miss Murfee | 1934 |
| Going Hollywood | Ms. Perkins / Miss Perkins - Divinity Teacher | 1933 |
| Ever in My Heart | Anna, the Cook / Anna the Cook | 1933 |
| Charlie Chan's Greatest Case | Minerva Winterslip | 1933 |
| One Sunday Afternoon | Mrs. Brush | 1933 |
| Turn Back the Clock | Joe's Mother / Mrs. Gimlet, Joe's Mother | 1933 |
| Three Cornered Moon | Landlady / Ronald's Landlady | 1933 |
| The Mind Reader | Auntie | 1933 |
| Child of Manhattan | Aunt Sophie | 1933 |
| The Bitter Tea of General Yen | Mrs. Jackson | 1932 |
| Rockabye | Brida | 1932 |
| Three on a Match | Mrs. Keaton | 1932 |
| Life Begins | Mrs. West | 1932 |
| Two Against the World | Aunt Agatha | 1932 |
| The Strange Case of Clara Deane | Mrs. Lyons (scenes deleted) / Mrs. Lyons | 1932 |
| The Wet Parade | Mrs. Tarleton | 1932 |
| Shopworn | Mrs. Livingston | 1932 |
| Possessed | Mother Martin / Mrs. Martin | 1931 |
| New Adventures of Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford | Mrs. Layton | 1931 |
| Murder at Midnight | Aunt Julia Gray Kennedy | 1931 |
| Bought! | Mrs. Sprig / Mrs. Sprigg | 1931 |
| Huckleberry Finn | Aunt Polly | 1931 |
| I Take This Woman | Sue Barnes / Ranch Wife | 1931 |
| Laughing Sinners | Salvation Army Woman | 1931 |
| Daybreak | Frau Hoffman | 1931 |
| It's a Wise Child | Mrs. Stanton | 1931 |
| The Drums of Jeopardy | Abbie Krantz / Aunt Abbie | 1931 |
| The Easiest Way | Agnes Murdock | 1931 |
| Inspiration | Madeleine's Mother | 1931 |
| Once a Sinner | Mrs. Mason | 1931 |
| Tom Sawyer | Aunt Polly | 1930 |
| The Last of the Duanes | Mrs. Duane | 1930 |
| Romance | Abigail Armstrong / Miss Armstrong | 1930 |
| The Sins of the Children | Martha Wagenkampf | 1930 |
| Men Are Like That | Ma Fisher | 1930 |
| The Girl Said No | Mrs. Ward | 1930 |
| Burning Up | Mrs. Minnie Winkle | 1930 |
| One Hysterical Night | Masquerade Guest - Little Bo Peep | 1929 |
| Wise Girls | Mrs. Bence / Ma | 1929 |
| Peggy, the Will O' the Wisp | Mrs. Donnelly | 1917 |
| The Stolen Triumph | Mrs. Rowley | 1916 |
| Mrs. Black Is Back | Emily Mason | 1914 |
