Louise Beavers
Acting
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Louise Beavers (March 8, 1902 – October 26, 1962) was an American film and television actress. Beavers appeared in dozens of films and two hit television shows from the 1920s until 1960, most often cast in the role of a maid, servant, or slave. She was a native of Cincinnati, Ohio, and a member of Sigma Gamma Rho sorority, one of the four African-American sororities.
Beavers was a breakthrough actress for black women and became known as a symbol of a "mammy" on the screen. A mammy archetype "is the portrayal within a narrative framework or other imagery…
Filmography
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Make Room for Granddaddy
Make Room for Granddaddy
1970
The Facts of Life
1960
All the Fine Young Cannibals
1960
The Swamp Fox
1959
Bourbon Street Beat
1959
The Goddess
1958
Tammy and the Bachelor
1957
The Hostess with the Mostes'
1957
Teenage Rebel
1956
You Can't Run Away from It
1956
Good-bye, My Lady
1956
The Danny Thomas Show
1953
Never Wave at a WAC
1953
I Dream of Jeanie
1952
Colorado Sundown
1952
The Beulah Show
The Beulah Show
1950
My Blue Heaven
1950
The Jackie Robinson Story
1950
Tell It to the Judge
1949
For the Love of Mary
1948
Good Sam
1948
A Southern Yankee
1948
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
1948
Banjo
1947
Lover Come Back
1946
Young Widow
1946
Delightfully Dangerous
1945
Barbary Coast Gent
1944
Dixie Jamboree
1944
South of Dixie
1944
Follow the Boys
1944
There's Something About a Soldier
1943
Top Man
1943
Du Barry Was a Lady
1943
All by Myself
1943
Good Morning, Judge
1943
Seven Sweethearts
1942
The Big Street
1942
Holiday Inn
1942
Reap the Wild Wind
1942
Young America
1942
The Vanishing Virginian
1942
Shadow of the Thin Man
1941
Belle Starr
1941
Kisses for Breakfast
1941
Sign of the Wolf
1941
Virginia
1941
I Want a Divorce
1940
No Time for Comedy
1940
Primrose Path
1940
Women Without Names
1940
Parole Fixer
1940
The Lady's from Kentucky
1939
Reform School
1939
Made for Each Other
1939
Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus
1938
The Headleys at Home
1938
Brother Rat
1938
Life Goes On
1938
Scandal Street
1938
The Last Gangster
1937
Love in a Bungalow
Love in a Bungalow
1937
Wings Over Honolulu
1937
Make Way for Tomorrow
1937
Rainbow on the River
1936
General Spanky
1936
Wives Never Know
1936
Bullets or Ballots
1936
Annapolis Farewell
1935
West of the Pecos
1934
Imitation of Life
1934
Beggar's Holiday
1934
I Give My Love
1934
Dr. Monica
1934
The Merry Frinks
1934
Cheaters
1934
A Modern Hero
1934
Merry Wives of Reno
1934
Glamour
1934
I Believed in You
1934
The Facts of Life
1960
All the Fine Young Cannibals
1960
The Swamp Fox
1959
Bourbon Street Beat
1959
The Goddess
1958
Tammy and the Bachelor
1957
The Hostess with the Mostes'
1957
Teenage Rebel
1956
You Can't Run Away from It
1956
Good-bye, My Lady
1956
The Danny Thomas Show
1953
Never Wave at a WAC
1953
I Dream of Jeanie
1952
Colorado Sundown
1952
The Beulah Show
The Beulah Show
1950
My Blue Heaven
1950
The Jackie Robinson Story
1950
Tell It to the Judge
1949
For the Love of Mary
1948
Good Sam
1948
A Southern Yankee
1948
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
1948
Banjo
1947
Lover Come Back
1946
Young Widow
1946
Delightfully Dangerous
1945
Barbary Coast Gent
1944
Dixie Jamboree
1944
South of Dixie
1944
Follow the Boys
1944
There's Something About a Soldier
1943
Top Man
1943
Du Barry Was a Lady
1943
All by Myself
1943
Good Morning, Judge
1943
Seven Sweethearts
1942
The Big Street
1942
Holiday Inn
1942
Reap the Wild Wind
1942
Young America
1942
The Vanishing Virginian
1942
Shadow of the Thin Man
1941
Belle Starr
1941
Kisses for Breakfast
1941
Sign of the Wolf
1941
Virginia
1941
I Want a Divorce
1940
No Time for Comedy
1940
Primrose Path
1940
Women Without Names
1940
Parole Fixer
1940
The Lady's from Kentucky
1939
Reform School
1939
Made for Each Other
1939
Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus
1938
The Headleys at Home
1938
Brother Rat
1938
Life Goes On
1938
Scandal Street
1938
The Last Gangster
1937
Love in a Bungalow
Love in a Bungalow
1937
Wings Over Honolulu
1937
Make Way for Tomorrow
1937
Rainbow on the River
1936
General Spanky
1936
Wives Never Know
1936
Bullets or Ballots
1936
Annapolis Farewell
1935
West of the Pecos
1934
Imitation of Life
1934
Beggar's Holiday
1934
I Give My Love
1934
Dr. Monica
1934
The Merry Frinks
1934
Cheaters
1934
A Modern Hero
1934
Merry Wives of Reno
1934
Glamour
1934
I Believed in You
1934