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Personal Info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1892-05-27 (132 years old)

Place of Birth

Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Minna Gombell

Biography:

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Minna Gombell (May 28, 1892 – April 14, 1973) was an American film actress of the 1930s and 1940s.

She appeared in 50 Hollywood films including; Laurel and Hardy's Block-Heads, The Merry Widow, The First Year, Boom Town, High Sierra, Hoop-La, The Thin Man, and The Best Years of Our Lives.

Her third husband was the film writer, producer and director Myron Coureval Fagan.

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Known For

Acting

1951

Here Comes the Groom as Mrs. Godfrey

1950

Pagan Love Song as Kate Bennett

1949

The Last Bandit as Winnie McPhail

1948

The Snake Pit as Miss Hart
Mr. Reckless as Ma Hawkins

1947

Wyoming as Queenie Lassiter

1946

Perilous Holiday as Mrs. Latham

1945

Man Alive as Aunt Sophie
Sunbonnet Sue as Mrs. Fitzgerald
Swingin' on a Rainbow as Minnie Regan

1944

Destiny as Marie
The Town Went Wild as Marian Harrison

1943

1942

Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost as Edith Fitzbadden

1941

High Sierra as Mrs. Baughmam
Doomed Caravan as Jane Travers
Thieves Fall Out as Ella Barnes

1940

Boom Town as Spanish Eva

1939

The Hunchback of Notre Dame as Queen of Beggars
Second Fiddle as Jenny
Stop, Look and Love as Emma Haller

1938

Block-Heads as Mrs. Hardy
Comet Over Broadway as Tim Adams
The Great Waltz as Mrs. Hofbauer
Going Places as Cora Withering

1937

Make Way for Tomorrow as Nellie Chase
Slave Ship as Mabel

1936

Champagne Charlie as Lillian Wayne

1935

Miss Pacific Fleet as Sadie Freytag
The White Cockatoo as Grete Lovscheim
Women Must Dress as Linda Howard
Two Sinners as Mrs. Pym

1934

The Thin Man as Mimi Wynant
Strictly Dynamite as Miss LaSeur
The Hell Cat as Pauline McCoy
Cross Country Cruise as Nita Borden
Registered Nurse as Beulah Schloss
The Merry Widow as Marcelle
Babbitt as Zilla Reisling
Cheating Cheaters as Nell Brockton
No More Women as Annie Fay

1933

Wild Boys of the Road as Aunt Carrie
Hoopla as Carrie
Hello, Sister! as Mona La Rue
Pleasure Cruise as Judy Mills
The Big Brain as Margy
What Price Innocence? as Amy Harper
The Way to Love as Suzanne

1932

After Tomorrow as Else Taylor
Wild Girl as Millie
Bachelor's Affairs as Sheila Peck
Careless Lady as Yvette Logan
Stepping Sisters as Rosie La Marr
Dance Team as Cora Stuart
The First Year as Mrs. Barstow

1931

Bad Girl as Edna Driggs
Good Sport as Virginia Casey
Doctors' Wives as Julia Wyndram
Skyline as Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Sob Sister as Vonnie

1929

The Great Power as Joan Wray