Lucille La Verne
2 credits on HibingeTV
American actress, born in 1872. A veteran of the stage, she appeared in Sinners' Holiday (1930) as Ma Delano. She is perhaps best remembered as the voice of the Queen/Witch in Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). She had a long career in both silent and sound films, often playing formidable matriarchs and villainesses. She died in 1945.
Acted In
Mystery, Crime
Wealthy, universally disliked Silas Wayne gathers his greedy relatives and mistreated servants to read them his will, and is stabbed to death in front of a room full of witnesses who all claim to have seen nothing. Detective Sergeant Mitchell (Regis Toomey) and wisecracking reporter "Nosey" Toodles (June Clyde) sort through a house full of suspects — a shrouded figure stalking the halls, a phony diamond in the safe, and a second body before the night is out. Lucille La Verne steals scenes as the dead man's housekeeper. Released by Monogram in November 1932 and reissued under the title The Wayne Murder Case, it is a brisk pre-Code old-dark-house mystery. The film is in the public domain after its copyright was not renewed.
Mystery · Crime · Drama
A Strange Adventure
1932 - as Miss Sheen
Crime, Drama
A 1930 pre-Code crime drama and the film debut of James Cagney, who reprises his Broadway role from the play Penny Arcade by Marie Baumer. Directed by John G. Adolfi for Warner Bros., the film is set at a Coney Island penny arcade run by Ma Delano (Lucille La Verne). When her son Harry (Cagney) gets involved in a bootlegging operation run by Mitch McKane (Warren Hymer), a fatal shooting on the darkened pier sets off a tense family drama. Joan Blondell also makes her film debut, repeating her stage role as Myrtle. The film is in the public domain.
Crime · Drama
Sinners' Holiday
1930 - as Ma Delano