Clara Blandick

Acting

Born June 4, 1876, Onboard American ship in Hong Kong

Clara Blandick (born Clara Blanchard Dickey) was an American stage and screen actress best known for her role as Auntie Em in the beloved 1939 classic film The Wizard of Oz.

Filmography

• 1950Key to the City — Liza, Silas' housekeeper
• 1950Riding High — Mrs. Peterson (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 1949Mr. Soft Touch — Susan Balmuss
• 1948The Bride Goes Wild — Aunt Pewtie
• 1947Life with Father — Miss Wiggins
• 1947Philo Vance Returns — Stella Blendon
• 1946A Stolen Life — Martha
• 1946Claudia and David — Mrs. Barry
• 1946People Are Funny — Grandma Wilson
• 1946She-Wolf of London — Mrs. McBroom (uncredited)
• 1946So Goes My Love — Mrs. Meade
• 1945Frontier Gal — Abigail
• 1945Pillow of Death — Belle Kincaid
• 1944Can't Help Singing — Aunt Cissy
• 1944Shadow of Suspicion — Mother Randall
• 1943Du Barry Was a Lady — Old Lady on Subway (uncredited)
• 1943Heaven Can Wait — Grandmother Van Cleve (uncredited)
• 1942Gentleman Jim — Woman on Train (uncredited)
• 1942Lady in a Jam — Tourist (uncredited)
• 1942Rings on Her Fingers
• 1941It Started with Eve — Nurse
• 1941One Foot in Heaven — Sister Watkins (uncredited)
• 1941Private Nurse — Miss Phillips
• 1941The Big Store — Customer Seeking Record (uncredited)
• 1941The Get-Away — Mrs. Higgins
• 1941The Nurse's Secret — Aunt Juliet Mitchell
• 1941The Wagons Roll at Night — Mrs. Williams
• 1940Alice in Movieland — Grandmother
• 1940Dreaming Out Loud — Jessica Spencer
• 1940North West Mounted Police — Mrs. Burns
• 1940Tomboy — Aunt Martha
• 1940Youth Will Be Served — Miss Bradshaw
• 1939Drums Along the Mohawk — Mrs. Borst
• 1939Swanee River — Mrs. Griffin
• 1939The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — Miss Watson
• 1939The Star Maker — Miss Esther Jones
• 1939The Wizard of Oz — Auntie Em
• 1938Crime Ring — Phoebe Sawyer
• 1938My Old Kentucky Home — Julia 'Granny' Blair
• 1938Professor Beware — Mrs. Green - Landlady
• 1938Swing, Sister, Swing — Ma Sisler
• 1938Tom Sawyer, Detective — Aunt Polly
• 1937A Star Is Born — Aunt Mattie (uncredited)
• 1937Her Husband's Secretary — Agatha 'Aunt Gussie' Kingdon
• 1937Small Town Boy — Mrs. Armstrong
• 1937The Road Back — Willy's Mother
• 1937Wings Over Honolulu — Evie Curtis
• 1937You Can't Have Everything — Townswoman (uncredited)
• 1936Anthony Adverse — Mrs. Jorham
• 1936Hearts Divided — Aunt Ellen
• 1936In His Steps — Martha Adams
• 1936Make Way for a Lady — Mrs. Dell, Drew's Maid
• 1936The Case of the Velvet Claws — Mary F. O'Daugherty
• 1936The Gorgeous Hussy — Louisa Abbott
• 1936The Trail of the Lonesome Pine — Gaptown Landlady
• 1935Party Wire — Mathilda Sherman
• 1935Straight from the Heart — Mrs. Anderson
• 1935The Winning Ticket — Aunt Maggie
• 1935Transient Lady — Eva Branham
• 1934As the Earth Turns — Cora
• 1934Beloved — Miss Murfee
• 1934Broadway Bill — Mrs. Peterson
• 1934Fugitive Lady — Aunt Margaret
• 1934Harold Teen — Ma Lovewell
• 1934Jealousy — Mrs. Douglas
• 1934Sisters Under the Skin — Miss Gower
• 1934The Girl from Missouri — Miss Newberry
• 1934The President Vanishes — Mrs. Delling
• 1934The Show-Off — Mrs. 'Ma'
• 1933Charlie Chan's Greatest Case — Minerva Winterslip
• 1933Child of Manhattan — Aunt Sophie
• 1933Ever in My Heart — Anna, the Cook
• 1933Going Hollywood — Ms. Perkins
• 1933The Mind Reader — Auntie (uncredited)
• 1933Three Cornered Moon — Ronald’s Landlady (uncredited)
• 1933Turn Back the Clock — Mrs. Gimlet, Joe's Mother
• 1932Life Begins — Mrs. West
• 1932Rockabye — Brida
• 1932Shopworn — Mrs. Helen Livingston
• 1932The Strange Case of Clara Deane — Mrs. Lyons (scenes deleted)
• 1932The Wet Parade — Mrs. Tarleton
• 1932Three on a Match — Mrs. Keaton (uncredited)
• 1931Bought! — Mrs. Sprig
• 1931Daybreak — Frau Hoffman
• 1931Huckleberry Finn — Aunt Polly
• 1931I Take This Woman — Ranch Wife
• 1931Inspiration — Madeleine's Mother (uncredited)
• 1931It's a Wise Child — Mrs. Stanton
• 1931Laughing Sinners — Salvation Army Woman
• 1931Murder at Midnight — Aunt Julia Gray Kennedy
• 1931New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford — Mrs. Layton
• 1931Once a Sinner — Mrs. Mason
• 1931Possessed — Mrs. Martin
• 1931The Drums of Jeopardy — Aunt Abbie
• 1931The Easiest Way — Agnes Murdock
• 1930Burning Up — Mrs. Minnie Winkle
• 1930Men Are Like That — Ma Fisher
• 1930Poor Aubrey — Mrs. Fisher - Aubrey's Mother-in-Law
• 1930Romance — Abigail Armstrong
• 1930The Girl Said No — Mrs. Ward
• 1930The Last of the Duanes — Mrs. Duane
• 1930The Sins of the Children — Martha Wagenkampf
• 1930Tom Sawyer — Aunt Polly
• 1929Wise Girls — Mrs. Bence
• 1917Peggy, the Will O' the Wisp — Mrs. Donnelly
• 1916The Stolen Triumph — Mrs. Rowley
• 1915The Cabaret Singer — Mrs. Denton