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Lucille La Verne
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Actor Born: November 8, 1872 in Nashville, TN Death: March 4, 1945 in Culver City, CA Biography:Coming to films from the stage in 1914, actress "Lucille LaVerne" had a career which endured for over twenty years. She seemed to dote on playing tattered old hags, staggering tosspots, time- and care-worn slum mothers and indomitable frontierswomen. She was delightful in her own nasty way as the old harridan who forces blind "Dorothy Gish" to sing in the streets in "Griffith"'s "Orphans of the Storm" (1922). Successfully making the transition to sound, she was seen as petty-crook "James Cagney"'s overprotective mother in "Sinner's Holiday" (1930), a slatternly underworld fence in "Little Caesar" (1930) and "The Vengeance," the toothless, cackling insurrectionist in "Tale of Two Cities" (1935). A more benign LaVerne was seen as a hillbilly matriarch who's set her cap for old blowhard Noah Beery Sr. in Wheeler & Woolsey's "Kentucky Kernels" (1934). Lucille LaVerne's most famous screen role, was one in... Full Biography
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