Queenie Smith
- Birthday
- Sep 8, 1898
Bio: Pixieish stage and screen soubrette Queenie Smith was a Broadway favorite in the 1920s, most notably as star of the 1925 George Gershwin musical Tip Toes (1925). She came to films in the mid-1930s, playing virtually the same role in two period musicals, the 1935 Bing Crosby/W.C. Fields concoction Mississippi and the 1936 version of Jerome Kern and Oscar… More Bio: Pixieish stage and screen soubrette Queenie Smith was a Broadway favorite in the 1920s, most notably as star of the 1925 George Gershwin musical Tip Toes (1925). She came to films in the mid-1930s, playing virtually the same role in two period musicals, the 1935 Bing Crosby/W.C. Fields concoction Mississippi and the 1936 version of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein's Show Boat. As her youthful rambunctiousness matured into middle-aged feistiness, Queenie was seen in dozens of tiny roles, usually cast as a nosy neighbor, landlady, housekeeper or (in later years) retirement-home resident. In 1970, she and nonagenarian actor Burt Mustin were teamed as a long-married couple on the TV comedy-sketch series The Funny Side. One of the last and best of Queenie Smith's film roles was the scatological scrabble player in the 1978 Goldie Hawn-Chevy Chase vehicle Foul Play (1978). ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Filmography
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Foul Play (1978)
- Elsie
- 74%
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The End (1978)
- Old Lady in Car
- 75%
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Hustle (1975)
- Customer
- 67%
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The Day of the Locust (1975)
- Palsied Lady
- 64%
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The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968)
- Hairdresser
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Queenie Smith Videos
Foul Play
1 minutes 1 seconds
Sweet Smell Of Success
29 seconds
Hold That Hypnotist
2 minutes 33 seconds
The Long Night
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