Biography
Cora Witherspoon (January 5, 1890 – November 17, 1957) was an American stage and film character actress whose career spanned nearly half a century. She began in theatre where she remained rooted even after entering motion pictures in the early 1930s. As Witherspoon’s career progressed, she carved a niche playing haughty society women or harridan housewives such as Princess Lina in Ferenc Molnár's 1928 play Olympia, or Agatha Sousè, W.C. Fields’ domineering spouse in the 1940 film The Bank Dick. John Springer and Jack Hamilton, authors of They Had Faces Then: Super Stars, Stars, and Starlets of the 1930s (1974), wrote that "Witherspoon was blessed with a face that might have been drawn by one of those cartoonists who specialize in dealing with the war between men and women." In his 1975 autobiography, Tennessee Williams: Memoirs, Williams told of his time in 1941 as a night shift elevator operator at the San Jacinto Hotel in Manhattan. Among the hotel’s guests at the time was Witherspoon who, according to Williams, employed him or the hotel’s telephone operator, a budding poet, to pick up her morphine prescription from an all-night pharmacy. She used to rap with me and the poet till nearly day break in the San Jacinto lobby. Her “fix” would never wear itself out till first cock’s crow. Then the poet and I would sort of lift her into the lift, the poet would open her bedroom door and I would get her to the edge of her bed and let her drop on it. "What would I do without you boys?" she’d murmured with that sweet sad wisdom of the old who knows “all will pass.”
Filmography
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Movies 45
![It Should Happen to You](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/10001-it-should-happen-to-you.jpg)
It Should Happen to You (1954)
![Just for You](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/88528-just-for-you.jpg)
Just for You (1952)
![The First Time](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/100020-the-first-time.jpg)
The First Time (1952)
![The Mating Season](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/81525-the-mating-season.jpg)
The Mating Season (1951)
![I've Always Loved You](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/97284-i-ve-always-loved-you.jpg)
I've Always Loved You (1946)
![Dangerous Business](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/829463-dangerous-business.jpg)
Dangerous Business (1946)
![She Wrote the Book](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/94693-she-wrote-the-book.jpg)
She Wrote the Book (1946)
![Young Widow](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/90729-young-widow.jpg)
Young Widow (1946)
![Colonel Effingham's Raid](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/90697-colonel-effingham-s-raid.jpg)
Colonel Effingham's Raid (1946)
![She Wouldn't Say Yes](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/64695-she-wouldn-t-say-yes.jpg)
She Wouldn't Say Yes (1945)
![Over 21](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/114096-over-21.jpg)
Over 21 (1945)
![Follies Girl](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/114323-follies-girl.jpg)
Follies Girl (1943)
![The Bank Dick](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/84108-the-bank-dick.jpg)
The Bank Dick (1940)
![I Was an Adventuress](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/87142-i-was-an-adventuress.jpg)
I Was an Adventuress (1940)
![Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/4633-charlie-chan-s-murder-cruise.jpg)
Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise (1940)
![The Women](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/12227-the-women.jpg)
The Women (1939)
![Dodge City](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/74201-dodge-city.jpg)
Dodge City (1939)
![The Flying Irishman](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/89427-the-flying-irishman.jpg)
The Flying Irishman (1939)
![Just Around the Corner](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/93281-just-around-the-corner.jpg)
Just Around the Corner (1938)
![Three Loves Has Nancy](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/77192-three-loves-has-nancy.jpg)
Three Loves Has Nancy (1938)
![Marie Antoinette](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/24811-marie-antoinette.jpg)
Marie Antoinette (1938)
![Professor Beware](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/111868-professor-beware.jpg)
Professor Beware (1938)
![Port of Seven Seas](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/64209-port-of-seven-seas.jpg)
Port of Seven Seas (1938)
![He Couldn't Say No](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/115187-he-couldn-t-say-no.jpg)
He Couldn't Say No (1938)
![Beg, Borrow or Steal](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/83070-beg-borrow-or-steal.jpg)
Beg, Borrow or Steal (1937)
![The Big Shot](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/157653-the-big-shot.jpg)
The Big Shot (1937)
![The Lady Escapes](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/134834-the-lady-escapes.jpg)
The Lady Escapes (1937)
![Personal Property](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/122005-personal-property.jpg)
Personal Property (1937)
![On the Avenue](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/64177-on-the-avenue.jpg)
On the Avenue (1937)
![Libeled Lady](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/12139-libeled-lady.jpg)
Libeled Lady (1936)
![Piccadilly Jim](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/100060-piccadilly-jim.jpg)
Piccadilly Jim (1936)
![Frankie and Johnnie](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/134487-frankie-and-johnnie.jpg)
Frankie and Johnnie (1936)
![A Peach of a Pair](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/t/o.jpg)
A Peach of a Pair (1934)
![Midnight](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/120865-midnight.jpg)
Midnight (1934)
![Mushrooms](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/120911-mushrooms.jpg)
Mushrooms (1934)
![Ladies of the Jury](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/116177-ladies-of-the-jury.jpg)
Ladies of the Jury (1932)
![Peach-o-Reno](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/133357-peach-o-reno.jpg)
Peach-o-Reno (1931)
![The Night Angel](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/98644-the-night-angel.jpg)
The Night Angel (1931)
![Tarnished Lady](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/97329-tarnished-lady.jpg)
Tarnished Lady (1931)
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Information
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GenderFemale
Birthday1890-01-04
Deathday1957-11-17 (67 years old)
Birth PlaceNew Orleans, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
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