List of the best Beulah Bondi movies: Make Way for Tomorrow(1937), The Captain Is a Lady(1940), On Borrowed Time(1939), Remember the Night(1940), Street Scene(1931), The Southerner(1945), Penny Serenade(1941), Of Human Hearts(1938), One Foot in Heaven(1941), Back to Bataan(1945), Breakfast in Hollywood(1946), Watch on the Rhine(1943) ... ...
Drama
USA
1937
94 Minutes
Lucy Cooper
Victor Moore Beulah Bondi Fay Bainter Thomas Mitchell Porter Hall Barbara Read Maurice Moscovich Elisabeth Risdon Minna Gombell Ray Mayer
husband wife son daughter daughter-in-law young boy bleak emotional somber family home aging poverty family marriage grief love sacrifice 1930s
An elderly couple are forced to live hundreds of miles apart when they lose their house and none of their five children will take both parents in.
Comedy
USA
1940
63 Minutes
Angie Peabody
Charles Coburn Beulah Bondi Virginia Grey Helen Broderick Billie Burke Dan Dailey Helen Westley Marjorie Main Cecil Cunningham Clem Bevans Francis Pierlot
husband wife spinster elderly woman director endearing spirited cottage retirement home bedroom window ledge ship sea aging retirement attempted suicide infidelity insurance loneliness love
Because of a bad investment, Captain and Mrs. Peabody are evicted from their home. Mrs. Peabody finds lodging at a retirement home, but as only single women are allowed, the Captain has to ... See full summary »
Fantasy
USA
1939
99 Minutes
Nellie Northrup
Lionel Barrymore Cedric Hardwicke Beulah Bondi Una Merkel Bobs Watson Nat Pendleton Henry Travers Grant Mitchell Eily Malyon James Burke Charles Waldron
grandfather grandchild aunt death doctor amusing cheeky emotional heartwarming house tree united states death old age family discovery sacrifice 1930s
A cantankerous old man takes in his beloved, orphaned grandson, whom he must protect at all costs, including from an agent of Death with the help of a magical apple tree.
Other, Romance
USA
1940
94 Minutes
Mrs. Sargent
Barbara Stanwyck Fred MacMurray Beulah Bondi Elizabeth Patterson Willard Robertson Sterling Holloway Charles Waldron Paul Guilfoyle Charles Arnt John Wray Thomas W. Ross
district attorney shoplifter sheriff mother love interest amusing emotional charming new york city jail court pennsylvania indiana car romance opposites attract christmas family shoplifting redemption
Love blooms between a sympathetic attorney and the comely shoplifter he has taken home for the Christmas holiday.
Drama
USA
1931
80 Minutes
Emma Jones
Sylvia Sidney William Collier Beulah Bondi Estelle Taylor Max Montor David Landau Matt McHugh Russell Hopton Greta Grandstedt Tom H. Manning Adele Watson
mother father daughter neighbor student bleak gritty new york city brownstone stoop poverty adultery aspirations gossip fall revenge transformation 1930s
Twenty-four hours elapse on the stoop of a Hell's Kitchen tenement as a microcosm of the American melting pot interacts with each other during a summer heatwave.
Drama
USA
1945
91 Minutes
Granny Tucker
Zachary Scott Betty Field Beulah Bondi J. Carrol Naish Norman Lloyd Jay Gilpin Estelle Taylor Percy Kilbride Blanche Yurka
farmer wife grandmother emotional spirited moving texas farm farming aspirations poverty family quest love sacrifice underdog 1940s
The life of the poor Tucker family, that worked as cotton pluggers and decided to get their own ground, but nature is against them.
Drama
USA
1941
118 Minutes
Miss Oliver
Irene Dunne Cary Grant Beulah Bondi Edgar Buchanan Ann Doran Eva Lee Kuney Leonard Willey Wallis Clark Walter Soderling Baby Biffle Edmund Elton
newspaper owner wife child social worker assistant gripping melodramatic sad new york city family home japan parenthood adoption tragic death unhappy marriage quest love 1940s
A couple's big dreams give way to a life full of unexpected sadness and unexpected joy.
Drama
USA
1938
100 Minutes
Mary Wilkins
Walter Huston James Stewart Beulah Bondi Gene Reynolds Guy Kibbee Charles Coburn John Carradine Ann Rutherford Leatrice Joy Gilbert
preacher surgeon mother professor brash disheartening emotional small town school battlefield church maryland virginia american civil war father/son relationship medicine family neglect mother/son relationship rise
Ethan Wilkins is a poor and honest man who ministers to the human soul, while his son Jason yearns to be a doctor, helping people in the earthly realm.
Drama
USA
1941
108 Minutes
Mrs. Lydia Sandow
Fredric March Martha Scott Beulah Bondi Gene Lockhart Grant Mitchell Moroni Olsen Harry Davenport Elisabeth Fraser Frank Thomas Jr. Laura Hope Crews Jerome Cowan
preacher wife son daughter choir director chauffeur tender positive inspiring church house parsonage denver ontario, canada iowa family faith christianity sacrifice transformation
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
War
USA
1945
97 Minutes
Bertha Barnes
John Wayne Anthony Quinn Beulah Bondi Fely Franquelli Richard Loo Philip Ahn J. Alex Havier Lawrence Tierney Leonard Strong Paul Fix Abner Biberman
colonel soldier guerrilla fighter girlfriend tense spirited island philippines world war ii armed conflict rebellion battle courage prisoners of war underdog quest 1940s
In 1942, after the fall of the Philippines to the Japanese, U.S. Army Col. Joseph Madden stays behind to organize the local resistance against the Japanese invaders.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1946
90 Minutes
Mrs. Annie Reed
Bonita Granville Beulah Bondi Edward Ryan Raymond Walburn Billie Burke
young woman sailor radio host singer nat king cole fiancé amusing engaging witty lighthearted emotional uplifting hollywood radio show deception love at first sight reunion musical performance hollywood discovery
Based on an old radio series with a live audience. It is the story of few of the people who attend the show. Nat King Cole sings.
Drama
USA
1943
114 Minutes
Anise
Bette Davis Paul Lukas Geraldine Fitzgerald Lucile Watson Beulah Bondi George Coulouris Donald Woods Henry Daniell Donald Buka Eric Roberts Janis Wilson
engineer wife count son daughter mother tense melodramatic washington, d.c. family home blackmail rebellion nazism rivalry discovery sacrifice 1940s
A German-born engineer, his American wife and their children travel from Mexico to the United States to visit her family but their plans are complicated by a Romanian count.
Biography
USA
1946
117 Minutes
Mary Kenny
Rosalind Russell Alexander Knox Dean Jagger Philip Merivale Beulah Bondi Charles Dingle John Litel Doreen McCann Fay Helm Charles Kemper Dorothy Peterson
nurse patient doctor inspiring uplifting touching gutsy australia outback hospital medicine polio research paralysis underdog sacrifice quest 1930s
An Australian nurse discovers an effective new treatment for infantile paralysis, but experiences great difficulty in convincing doctors of the validity of her claims.
Comedy
USA
1938
90 Minutes
Mrs. Martha Morgan
Ginger Rogers James Stewart Jimmy Ellison Charles Coburn Beulah Bondi Frances Mercer Phyllis Kennedy Alec Craig Franklin Pangborn Grady Sutton Hattie McDaniel
professor dean wife ex-girlfriend singer charming amusing playful new york city small town romance father/son relationship jealousy secret marriage newlyweds love discovery 1930s
A professor marries a nightclub singer, much to the consternation of his family and friends back home.
Adventure
USA
1941
98 Minutes
Aunt Mollie
John Wayne Betty Field Harry Carey James Barton Beulah Bondi Samuel S. Hinds Marjorie Main Ward Bond Marc Lawrence John Qualen Fuzzy Knight
stranger moonshiner daughter son uncle aunt bleak melodramatic fascinating ozark mountains small town forest cabin family helping others rural life superstition suicide father/son relationship revenge
A mysterious but pleasant stranger arrives in the Missouri hills and befriends a young backwoods girl, which doesn't sit well with her moonshiner fiancé who has vowed to find and kill his own father.
Drama
USA
1944
86 Minutes
Aunt Em
Loretta Young Alan Ladd Susan Hayward Barry Sullivan Beulah Bondi Cecil Kellaway Helen Mack Anthony Caruso Grant Mitchell Jonathan Hale George Carleton
A wealthy woman who lost her hearing to meningitis meets a doctor who is concocting a serum that will cure deafness.
Drama
USA
1940
90 Minutes
Mrs. Webb
William Holden Martha Scott Frank Craven Fay Bainter Beulah Bondi Thomas Mitchell Guy Kibbee Stuart Erwin
milkman editor stage manager professor husband wife emotional sad amusing grover's corners new hampshire garden wedding cemetery small-town life america love transformation growing up love
Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century.
Adventure
USA
1954
103 Minutes
Ma Bridges
Robert Mitchum Teresa Wright Tab Hunter Diana Lynn Beulah Bondi Philip Tonge William Hopper Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer
mother alcoholic son father brother neighbor tense brooding dark northern california ranch mountain family home family dysfunction killer animals frontier life hunting love triangle rivalry quest
Around the turn of the 20th century, during a harsh northern California winter, members of a ranching family are squabbling among themselves while the two oldest sons go hunting for a panther that is killing their livestock.
Mystery & Thriller
1957
94 Minutes
Emma Hochen
Diana Dors Rod Steiger Tom Tryon Marie Windsor Beulah Bondi Arthur Franz Luis Van Rooten Joe De Santis
wife winemaker partner mother lover brother dark melodramatic napa valley, calif. jail winery estate cellar household murder frame-up wine infidelity false accusations deception
The wife (Diana Dors) of a California vintner (Rod Steiger) botches his murder with her lover (Tom Tryon), a rodeo rider.
Comedy, Other, Drama
USA
1946
129 Minutes
Mrs. Bailey
James Stewart Donna Reed Lionel Barrymore Thomas Mitchell Henry Travers Beulah Bondi Frank Faylen Ward Bond Gloria Grahame H.B. Warner Frank Albertson
angel friend wife uncle businessperson banker heartwarming emotional charming new york state store small town christmas big business suicide marriage money ambition fall rescue
An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.
Drama
USA
1934
83 Minutes
Frau Koerber (scenes deleted)
Greta Garbo Herbert Marshall George Brent Warner Oland Jean Hersholt Beulah Bondi Katharine Alexander Cecilia Parker Soo Yong Billy Bevan Forrester Harvey
pretty woman bacteriologist diplomat wife neighbor father emotional passionate striking austria hong kong house bedroom hospital jungle infidelity romantic dilemma medicine marriage loneliness
A wife neglected by her husband, a medical researcher in China, falls in love with a dashing diplomatic attaché.
Romance
USA
1961
97 Minutes
Mrs. Annie Call
Sandra Dee John Gavin Charles Drake Virginia Grey Julia Meade Beulah Bondi
student boyfriend professor wealthy woman dean niece airy cheeky madcap houseboat seminola college education friendship boats love misunderstanding discovery quest 1960s
A wholesome river girl floats her boat to college and meets a professor who finds her charming.
Western
USA
1950
109 Minutes
Mrs. Anaheim
Barbara Stanwyck Walter Huston Wendell Corey Judith Anderson Gilbert Roland Thomas Gomez Beulah Bondi Albert Van Dekker John Bromfield Wallace Ford Blanche Yurka
childhood friend father daughter bad boy gambler rancher dark tense sultry melodramatic ranch new mexico family home wild west town father/daughter relationship family dysfunction jealousy love triangle power struggle
A firebrand heiress clashes with her tyrannical father, a cattle rancher who fancies himself a Napoleon, but their relationship turns ugly only when he finds himself a new woman.
Drama
USA
1938
98 Minutes
Rose Elliott
Errol Flynn Bette Davis Anita Louise Jane Bryan Ian Hunter Henry Travers Beulah Bondi Donald Crisp Dick Foran Patric Knowles Alan Hale
secretary sportswriter father sister fiancé millionaire melodramatic intense gripping montana san francisco apartment office ship sister relationship marriage ambition drinking earthquakes reconciliation
Three daughters of a small town pharmacist undergo trials and tribulations in their problematic marriages between 1904 and 1908.
Drama
USA
1959
130 Minutes
Mrs. Emily Hamilton Hamble
Richard Egan Dorothy McGuire Sandra Dee Arthur Kennedy Troy Donahue Constance Ford Beulah Bondi Jack Richardson Martin Eric Peter Constanti Junius Matthews
wealthy man wife daughter old flame alcoholic son melodramatic passionate engaging maine hotel seaside family home pine island loveless marriage affair family secrets young love summer vacation unplanned pregnancy
A self-made businessman rekindles a romance with a former flame while their two teenage children begin a romance of their own with drastic consequences for both couples.
Sci-Fi
USA
1936
81 Minutes
Lady Arabella Stevens
Boris Karloff Bela Lugosi Frances Drake Frank Lawton Violet Kemble Cooper Walter Kingsford Beulah Bondi Frank Reicher Paul Weigel Georges Renavent
A scientist becomes murderous after discovering, and being exposed to the radiation of, a powerful new element called Radium X.
Musical, Comedy
1953
104 Minutes
Analyst
Lana Turner Ricardo Montalban John Lund Louis Calhern Jean Hagen Eduard Franz Beulah Bondi Joaquin Garay Archer MacDonald Dorothy Neumann Robert Burton
wealthy man heiress plantation owner psychiatrist secretary grandfather lighthearted engaging new york city office brazil hotel love triangle vacation misunderstanding fortune hunters career money love adventure
A rich girl (Lana Turner) follows her rich boyfriend (John Lund) to Brazil, where she flirts with a rich rancher (Ricardo Montalban).
Comedy, Drama
USA
1939
125 Minutes
Ma Smith
James Stewart Jean Arthur Claude Rains Edward Arnold Guy Kibbee Thomas Mitchell Eugene Pallette Beulah Bondi H.B. Warner Harry Carey Astrid Allwyn
senator politician secretary uplifting inspiring engaging washington, d.c. courtroom office politics aspirations leadership corruption underdog discovery rise 1930s
A naive man is appointed to fill a vacancy in the United States Senate. His plans promptly collide with political corruption, but he doesn't back down.
Drama
USA
1956
97 Minutes
Martha Spangler
Robert Ryan Anita Ekberg Rod Steiger Phyllis Kirk Keith Andes Gene Barry Fred Clark Beulah Bondi Cameron Prud'Homme Jesse White Adele Mara
veteran pilot son prostitute stewardess murderer dense moving las vegas airport airplane south america jungle airplane crash cowardice alcoholism gangsters self-sacrifice survival sacrifice
When a commercial plane force-lands in a South-American jungle, the passengers and pilots must patch-up the engines and escape the cannibal-infested area.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1937
86 Minutes
Abigail
Claudette Colbert Fred MacMurray Harvey Stephens Gale Sondergaard Louise Dresser Bennie Bartlett Edward Ellis Beulah Bondi Bonita Granville Virginia Weidler Donald Meek
lover adventurer young woman judge townsperson passionate thrilling emotional salem, mass. courtroom town hall town square puritanism affair repression wrongfully accused witch trials witchcraft love wretched excess
Young lovers fall afoul of repressive society as Salem elders get caught up in the witch hunts and trials of 17th century Massachusetts. One family in particular uses the hysteria to its ... See full summary »
Drama, History
USA
1936
102 Minutes
Rachel Jackson
Joan Crawford Robert Taylor Lionel Barrymore Franchot Tone Melvyn Douglas James Stewart Alison Skipworth Louis Calhern Beulah Bondi Melville Cooper Sidney Toler
president best friend senator sailor adviser gutsy spirited washington, d.c. inn peggy eaton andrew jackson loyalty politics scandal rivalry sacrifice love 1830s
President Andrew Jackson's friendship with an innkeeper's daughter spells trouble for them both.
Romance
USA
1936
70 Minutes
Marion Davies Dick Powell Charles Ruggles Claude Rains Edward Everett Horton Arthur Treacher Henry Stephenson Clara Blandick John Larkin Walter Kingsford Etienne Girardot
napoleon bonaparte brother socialite suitor teacher passionate lighthearted emotional baltimore france louisiana purchase negotiation impersonation arranged marriage teaching politics love sacrifice rivalry quest
Napoleon needs money to fight his wars in Europe so he wants 20 million dollars for the Louisiana Territory in the United States. To help the negotiations, he sends his brother, Jerome, to ... See full summary »
Fantasy
1962
129 Minutes
Laurence Harvey Karl Boehm Claire Bloom Walter Slezak Barbara Eden Oscar Homolka Arnold Stang Martita Hunt Betty Garde Bryan Russell
writer brother duke child old woman cobbler creative winsome intricate positive germany small town the brothers grimm fairy tales writing imagination dreams determination discovery quest
The German brothers' (Laurence Harvey, Karl Boehm) story bridges fairy tales: "The Dancing Princess," "The Cobbler and the Elves," "The Singing Bone."