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Biography. Born to a stage actress mother, Connie Gilchrist took to the theater herself at just 16, in an English production in 1917. She would continue to work stages across Europe and the United States, eventually landing on Broadway in the mid-30s. Within four years, Gilchrist managed to secure a decade-long deal with MGM.
1941. Barnacle Bill as Mamie. 1941. The Wild Man of Borneo as Mrs. Evelyn Diamond. 1940. Hullabaloo as Arline Merriweather. Connie Gilchrist is known as an Actor. Some of her work includes A Letter to Three Wives, The Far Country, Little Women, Some Came Running, It Should Happen to You, Act of Violence, Long John Silver, and Houdini.
Biography. With more than two decades of stage experience in France, England and on Broadway behind her, this moon-faced, heavy-set character actress first entered films in 1940. But no matter a film's genre - contemporary drama, historical costumer or shoot 'em up western - her Brooklyn roots always sounded through. See full bio ». Connie ...
Connie Gilchrist was a formidably-built, strong-featured, Brooklyn-born actress. With a no-nonsense screen persona, even her below-the-stairs characters were inclined to speak their minds. A stage actress from 1917, she was signed by MGM in 1940, forming the third point of the triangle in the Marjorie Main-Wallace Beery roughhouse comedies, and ...
Hucksters, The (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Not Needing A Job Opening scene from the MGM marquee productiuon of The Hucksters, 1947, sees Park Avenue hotel staffers Betty (Connie Gilchrist) and Glass (Aubrey Mather) thrilled at the return of war-veteran and ad man Victor Norman (Clark Gable), starlets Deborah Kerr and Ava Gardner appearing soon.
Connie Gilchrist as Ma Galestrum; Sam Levene as Rosco; Leo Gorcey as Biff "Rags" Ragland as Killer Connolly; Douglass Newland as Baby Fitzroy; Anthony Caruso as Nat Cucci; Reception. The film earned $229,000 in the US and Canada and $144,000 elsewhere during its initial theatrical run, making MGM a loss of $79,000. See also. List of boxing films
The Far Country: Directed by Anthony Mann. With James Stewart, Ruth Roman, Corinne Calvet, Walter Brennan. A self-minded adventurer locks horns with a crooked lawman while driving cattle to Dawson.
