Alma Kruger
- Nació el 13/09/1868
- Alma Kruger falleció el 05/04/1960 a los 91 años.
From Wikipedia
Alma Kruger (September 13, 1868 or 1871 – April 5, 1960) was
an American actress.
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Kruger had a long career
on stage before appearing in films. From 1907 to 1935, she featured in theatre
plays on Broadway, mostly in Shakespearean plays such as Hamlet (as Gertrude),
Twelfth Night (as Olivia), Taming of the Shrew (Widow), and The Merchant of
Venice (Nerissa).
She appeared in her first film while in her sixties, These
Three (1936). She then proceeded to act in over forty films in the space of
little more than a decade. Among her notable roles was Nurse Molly Byrd, the
superintendent of nurses in the popular Dr. Kildare/Dr. Gillespie film series,
appearing in all but the first two of the sixteen movies.
She portrayed Empress Maria Theresa of Austria in Marie
Antoinette (1938) and the almost mother-in-law of Rosalind Russell's lead character
in His Girl Friday (1940). In 1942, she appeared as the subversive society
matron Henrietta Sutton in Alfred Hitchcock's Saboteur (1942). Kruger's last
film appearance was in the film, Forever Amber (1947).
