Nella Walker

Highest Rated: 100% I Love You Again (1940)

Lowest Rated: 40% I Live My Life (1935)

Birthday: Mar 6, 1886

Birthplace: Not Available

Silver-haired, aristocratic American actress Nella Walker was a salesgirl in her native Chicago before touring in vaudeville with her husband, entertainer Wilbur Mack. After her talking-picture debut in Vagabond Lover (1929), Ms. Walker joined the ranks of the "lorgnette and old lace" character actresses. Nearly always a society matron in her film appearances, Nella was virtually unsurpassed in her ability to summon up disdain for all those born "beneath" her, and to haughtily enunciate such lines as "The very idea!" and "My dear, it just isn't being done." By providing so easily deflatable a target, Ms. Walker was an ideal foil for such low comedians as Laurel and Hardy (Air Raid Wardens [1943]) and Abbott and Costello (In Society [1944]). Nella Walker remained a member in good standing of moviedom's "upper crust" until her final appearance in Billy Wilder's Sabrina (1954), in which she played the mother of both Humphrey Bogart and William Holden.

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RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	BOX OFFICE	YEAR
93%	Sabrina	Maude Larrabee	—	1954
No Score Yet	Flesh and Fury	Mrs. Hackett	—	1952
No Score Yet	Nancy Goes to Rio	Mrs. Harrison	—	1950
No Score Yet	That Hagen Girl	Molly Freneau	—	1947
No Score Yet	This Time for Keeps	Mrs. Allenbury	—	1947
No Score Yet	Variety Girl	Mrs. Webster	—	1947
No Score Yet	The Beginning or the End	Grace Tully	—	1947
No Score Yet	Undercover Maisie	Mrs. Andrew Lorrison	—	1947
No Score Yet	The Locket	Mrs. Wendall	—	1946
No Score Yet	Two Sisters From Boston	Mrs. Lawrence Patterson	—	1946
No Score Yet	In Society	Mrs. Van Cleve	—	1944
No Score Yet	Take It or Leave It	Mrs. Preston	—	1944
No Score Yet	What a Woman!	Actor	—	1943
No Score Yet	Hers to Hold	Dorothy Craig	—	1943
No Score Yet	Air Raid Wardens	Millicent Norton	—	1943
No Score Yet	Wintertime	Mrs. Prentice	—	1943
86%	Kid Glove Killer	Mrs. Daniels	—	1942
No Score Yet	Kathleen	Mrs. Farrell	—	1942
No Score Yet	We Were Dancing	Mrs. Bentley	—	1942
No Score Yet	A Girl, a Guy and a Gob	Mrs. Grange	—	1941
No Score Yet	Buck Privates	Mrs. Parker II	—	1941
No Score Yet	Manpower	Floorlady	—	1941
No Score Yet	Hellzapoppin'	Mrs. Rand	—	1941
80%	Kitty Foyle	Aunt Jessica	—	1940
No Score Yet	No Time for Comedy	Theatergoer	—	1940
100%	I Love You Again	Kay's Mother	—	1940
No Score Yet	The Saint Takes Over	Lucy Fernack	—	1940
No Score Yet	Irene	Mrs. Marshall	—	1940
No Score Yet	A Child Is Born	Mrs. Twitchell	—	1940
No Score Yet	Swanee River	Mrs. McDowell	—	1939
No Score Yet	Espionage Agent	Mrs. Peyton	—	1939
No Score Yet	When Tomorrow Comes	Mme. Durand	—	1939
100%	In Name Only	Mrs. Grace Walker	—	1939
No Score Yet	Three Smart Girls Grow Up	Mrs. Dorothy Craig	—	1939
No Score Yet	The Saint Strikes Back	Mrs. Lucy Fernack	—	1939
No Score Yet	Made for Each Other	Nurse	—	1939
No Score Yet	These Glamour Girls	Mrs. Graves	—	1939
No Score Yet	Young Dr. Kildare	Mrs. Chanler	—	1938
No Score Yet	Professor Beware	Railroad information clerk	—	1938
No Score Yet	The Rage of Paris	Mrs. Duncan	—	1938
No Score Yet	Hard to Get	Mrs. Atwater	—	1938
89%	Stella Dallas	Mrs. Grosvenor	—	1937
86%	Three Smart Girls	Dorothy Craig	—	1936
86%	Captain January	Mary Mason	—	1936
No Score Yet	Small Town Girl (One Horse Town)	Mrs. Dakin	—	1936
No Score Yet	Klondike Annie	Missionary	—	1936
No Score Yet	Dante's Inferno	Mrs. Hamilton	—	1935
No Score Yet	The Woman in Red	Aunt Bettina	—	1935
40%	I Live My Life	Ruth's Mother	—	1935
No Score Yet	Going Highbrow	Mrs. March	—	1935
No Score Yet	Behold My Wife	Mrs. Copperwaithe	—	1935
No Score Yet	Red Salute	Aunt Betty	—	1935
No Score Yet	Madame Du Barry	Mme. De Noailles	—	1934
No Score Yet	Change of Heart	Mrs. Frieda Mockby	—	1934
No Score Yet	Fashions of 1934	Mrs. Van Tyle	—	1934
No Score Yet	Four Frightened People	Mrs. Ainger	—	1934
No Score Yet	The House on 56th Street	Mrs. Van Tyle	—	1933
No Score Yet	Ever in My Heart	Martha Sewell	—	1933
No Score Yet	Sensation Hunters	Mrs. Grayson	—	1933
No Score Yet	This Day and Age	Little Fellow's Mother	—	1933
No Score Yet	Frisco Jenny	Mrs. Reynolds	—	1933
No Score Yet	20,000 Years in Sing Sing	Mrs. Long	—	1932
89%	Trouble in Paradise	Mme. Bouchet	—	1932
No Score Yet	Is My Face Red	Aunt Vickie	—	1932
No Score Yet	Lady with a Past	Aunt Emma	—	1932
No Score Yet	They Call It Sin	Mrs. Hollister	—	1932
No Score Yet	Indiscreet	Mrs. Woodward	—	1931
No Score Yet	Daughter of the Dragon	Lady Petrie	—	1931
No Score Yet	Vagabond Lover	Mrs. Todd Hunter	—	1929
No Score Yet	Tanned Legs	Mrs. Reynolds	—	1929

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