Jody Gilbert (March 18, 1916 – February 3, 1979) was an American actress.
Jody Gilbert | |
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![]() Jody Gilbert in The Tuttles of Tahiti (1942) | |
Born | Fort Worth, Texas, U.S. | March 18, 1916
Died | February 3, 1979 Los Angeles, California, U.S. | (aged 62)
Resting place | Hollywood Forever Cemetery |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1937–1978 |
Biography
Gilbert was born in Fort Worth, Texas. She studied voice and acting at Columbia University, and she was a graduate of Pasadena Playhouse.[1]
One of her early roles was in the W.C. Fields film Never Give a Sucker an Even Break, playing a quick-witted diner waitress who has a verbal duel with Fields. She appeared in numerous roles in the movies, radio and television, often in supporting roles as "sizeable" but confident women.[2]
Gilbert died from complications arising from an auto accident from the previous autumn.[1]
Filmography
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1939 | Confession | Actress | uncredited |
1939 | Chasing Danger | Teena | |
1939 | New Frontier | Rusty's Dance Partner | uncredited |
1939 | No Place to Go | Mrs. Hazelhurst | uncredited |
1939 | Ninotchka | Streetcar Conductress - Moscow Roommate | uncredited |
1939 | Everything Happens at Night | Hilda | |
1940 | Little Old New York | Hilda | |
1940 | Seventeen | Ethel Boke | uncredited |
1940 | Star Dust | Swedish Maid | |
1940 | Ski Patrol | Fanni Nerkuu | |
1940 | Grand Ole Opry | Women's Club President | uncredited |
1940 | Brigham Young | Stout Woman Who Can't Swim | uncredited |
1940 | Flowing Gold | Tillie / Mrs. Harris | |
1940 | Hit Parade of 1941 | uncredited | |
1941 | Hudson's Bay | Germaine | |
1941 | Maisie Was a Lady | Curly the Bearded Lady | uncredited |
1941 | Pot o' Gold | Helga Svenson | uncredited |
1941 | Sergeant York | Fat Woman | uncredited |
1941 | Wild Geese Calling | Swede | uncredited |
1941 | Never Give a Sucker an Even Break | The Waitress | |
1941 | Shadow of the Thin Man | Lana - Spider Webb's Girl | uncredited |
1941 | Hellzapoppin' | Louie's Girlfriend | uncredited |
1941 | Remember the Day | Mrs. Martha Avery | |
1942 | Ride 'Em Cowboy | Moonbeam | uncredited |
1942 | The Tuttles of Tahiti | Effie | |
1942 | The Affairs of Martha | Hadwig | uncredited |
1942 | Iceland | Fat Girl | uncredited |
1942 | Wrecking Crew | Hefty Girl | uncredited |
1942 | The Black Swan | Flossy Woman with Tommy | uncredited |
1942 | Journey for Margaret | Madame Bornholm | uncredited |
1942 | Reunion in France | Brunhilde - Stout Customer | uncredited |
1943 | The Hard Way | Anderson - Masseuse | uncredited |
1943 | Hers to Hold | Babe | uncredited |
1943 | Wings Over the Pacific | Native Woman with Black Eye | |
1943 | Hi Diddle Diddle | Agitated Wife | uncredited |
1943 | Hi'ya, Sailor | Plump Hostess | uncredited |
1943 | The Unknown Guest | Mrs. Green | uncredited |
1943 | Princess O'Rourke | Woman Truck Driver | uncredited |
1944 | The Story of Dr. Wassell | Head Nurse | uncredited |
1944 | Ladies of Washington | Nurse's Aide | uncredited |
1944 | Marriage Is a Private Affair | Girl Taxi Driver | uncredited |
1944 | Lost in a Harem | Native Laundress | uncredited |
1944 | Music for Millions | Burly Woman Cab Driver | uncredited |
1944 | Together Again | Fat Woman Fleeing Nightclub Raid | uncredited |
1944 | Can't Help Singing | Bath House Attendant | uncredited |
1945 | Roughly Speaking | Woman in Store | uncredited |
1945 | Christmas in Connecticut | Mrs. Gerseg | uncredited |
1945 | That Night with You | Masseuse | uncredited |
1945 | Strange Confession | Mrs. Todd | uncredited |
1945 | Hold That Blonde | Matron | uncredited |
1945 | Life with Blondie | Buxom Woman | uncredited |
1945 | Texas Panhandle | Millie the Blacksmith | uncredited |
1946 | Partners in Time | The Bad Cook | uncredited |
1946 | Deadline for Murder | Tiny | |
1946 | Two Guys from Milwaukee | Big Woman | uncredited |
1946 | Singing on the Trail | Casey | uncredited |
1946 | Decoy | Mrs. Noonan | uncredited |
1946 | Cross My Heart | Miss Stewart | uncredited |
1946 | The Show-Off | Woman | scenes deleted |
1947 | Blondie's Holiday | Cynthia Thompson (Class of '32) | |
1947 | Fun on a Weekend | Customer in Clothing Shop | uncredited |
1947 | Second Chance | Policewoman | uncredited |
1947 | Roses Are Red | Jill's Landlady | uncredited |
1947 | Heading for Heaven | Mable Foster | uncredited |
1948 | Albuquerque | Pearl Eager | |
1948 | Are You with It? | Mrs. Minerva Henkle | |
1948 | Casbah | American Woman | uncredited |
1948 | Shaggy | Tessie | |
1948 | Texas, Brooklyn and Heaven | Lady | uncredited |
1948 | Million Dollar Weekend | Big Woman at Airline Counter | uncredited |
1948 | My Dear Secretary | Hilda Sneebacher | uncredited |
1948 | Bungalow 13 | Mrs. Martha Barton | |
1948 | The Paleface | Woman in Bathhouse | uncredited |
1949 | Knock on Any Door | Gussie | uncredited |
1949 | The Lost Tribe | Zulta, the Barmaid | uncredited |
1949 | The Lovable Cheat | Madame Violette | |
1949 | Hellfire | Full Moon | |
1949 | One Last Fling | Amy Dearing | |
1949 | Brimstone | Fat Lady on Stage | uncredited |
1949 | The Doctor and the Girl | Mrs. Vlacsek | uncredited |
1950 | The Blonde Bandit | Bertha Fannon | |
1950 | Blonde Dynamite | Sarah Dumbrowski | |
1950 | House by the River | Flora Bantam | |
1950 | The Yellow Cab Man | Cecil's Mother | uncredited |
1950 | My Friend Irma Goes West | Fat Woman | uncredited |
1951 | Gene Autry and The Mounties | Squaw | uncredited |
1951 | Slaughter Trail | Fat Woman at Dance | uncredited |
1952 | Something to Live For | Woman in Telephone Booth | uncredited |
1952 | Actor's and Sin | Mrs. Egelhofer | (segment "Woman of Sin") |
1952 | Jumping Jacks | Mr. White's Secretary | uncredited |
1953 | Houdini | Fat Girl | uncredited |
1969 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | Large Woman | |
1971 | Willard | Charlotte Stassen | |
1976 | Lifeguard | Woman |
References
External links
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