Louise Beavers
Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA — Mar 08 1902• Died Oct 26 1962
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Louise Beavers (March 8, 1902 – October 26, 1962) was an American film and television actress. Beavers appeared in dozens of films and two hit television shows from the 1920s until 1960, most often cast in the role of a maid, servant, or slave. She was a native of Cincinnati, Ohio, and a member of Sigma Gamma Rho sorority, one of the four African-American sororities. Beavers was a breakthrough actress for black women and became known as a symbol of a "mammy" on the screen. A mammy archetype "is the portrayal within…
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The Danny Thomas Show
Louise
Bourbon Street Beat
Mrs. Teale
The Swamp Fox
My Blue Heaven
Selma
Make Way for Tomorrow
Mamie
The Beulah Show
Beulah
The Jackie Robinson Story
Jackie's Mother
Reap the Wild Wind
Maum Maria
Make Room for Granddaddy
Made for Each Other
Lily (uncredited)
Midnight Mary
Mary's Maid Anna (uncredited)
Bullets or Ballots
Nellie LaFleur
The Last Gangster
Gloria
Imitation of Life
Delilah Johnson
The Big Street
Ruby, Gloria's Maid (uncredited)
Holiday Inn
Mamie
Belle Starr
Mammy Lou
Wall Street
Magnolia
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
Gussie
Good Sam
Chloe
Only Yesterday
Abby (Uncredited)
Follow the Boys
Louise Beavers (uncredited)
No Time for Comedy
Clementine
Shadow of the Thin Man
Stella
Bombshell
Loretta
Du Barry Was a Lady
Niagara
The Story of Temple Drake
Minnie
Glamour
Millie
Top Man
Cleo
Paid
Convict (uncredited)
The Greeks Had a Word for Them
Beautician (uncredited)
Doctor X
Louise (Uncredited)
Ladies of the Big House
Ivory
Seven Sweethearts
Petunia, the Maid
Good Morning, Judge
Cleo
Our Blushing Brides
Amelia - The Mannequins' Maid (uncredited)
You Can't Run Away from It
Maid
Gambling Lady
Suzy - Peter's Cook (uncredited)
Glad Rag Doll
Hannah
Primrose Path
Woman Talking to Police (uncredited)
Wild Girl
Mammy Lou (uncredited)
42nd Street
Pansy (uncredited)
Lover Come Back
Martha
Bedside
Pansy
All the Fine Young Cannibals
Rose
The Merry Frinks
Camille
Annapolis Farewell
Miranda
The Facts of Life
Gussie
Good-bye, My Lady
Bonnie Drew
The Goddess
The Cook
Young Widow
Rosie
Coquette
Julia
Night World
Maid (uncredited)
Young America
Maid (Uncredited)
The Midnight Patrol
Maid (scenes deleted)
Teenage Rebel
Willamay
Thunderbolt
Black Cat Cafe Patron (uncredited)
Manslaughter
Rose
I Give My Love
Maid
A Southern Yankee
Laundry Woman
Hell's Highway
Rascal's Sweetheart at Visitor's Center (uncredited)
Scandal Street
Clairce
Delightfully Dangerous
Hannah
Hold Your Man
Elite Club Attendant (uncredited)
Millie
Maid (uncredited)
Never Wave at a WAC
Artamesa
A Shriek in the Night
Maid
Back Pay
Nellie - Hester's Maid
Barbary Coast Gent
Bedelia
Tammy and the Bachelor
Osia
Parole Fixer
Aunt Lindy
The Big Cage
Mandy
What Price Hollywood?
Mary's Maid Bonita
A Modern Hero
Azais's Maid
She Done Him Wrong
Pearl
Women Without Names
Ivory
Safety in Numbers
Messalina
Sundown Trail
Auntie Jenny
I Want a Divorce
Celestine
I've Got Your Number
Crystal
The Strange Love of Molly Louvain
Washroom Attendant (uncredited)
Young America
Pansy
Cheaters
Lily
All by Myself
Willie
Wives Never Know
Florabelle
Palooka
Crystal
Girl Missing
Julie, Daisy's Maid (Uncredited)
Her Bodyguard
Margot's Maid
Outside the Law
Judy the Maid
Wide Open
Easter
Bright Lights
Angela
The Woman Condemned
Sally
The Dark Horse
Kay's Maid Levinnia
Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus
Cassey
Banjo
Lindy
The Expert
Lulu
Rainbow on the River
Toinette
Brother Rat
Jenny
General Spanky
Cornelia
Good Sport
September
For the Love of Mary
Bertha
Central Airport
Hotel Maid (uncredited)
Honey
Black Revivalist
Kisses for Breakfast
Clotilda
Sign of the Wolf
Beulah
Love in a Bungalow
Millie
Wings Over Honolulu
Mammy
Dr. Monica
Sarah - Mary's Maid (uncredited)
Party Husband
Laura's Maid
Don't Bet on Women
Maid (uncredited)
In the Money
Lily
South of Dixie
Magnolia Brown / Chloe
There's Something About a Soldier
Birdie
Girls About Town
Hattie
True to the Navy
Maid (uncredited)
Unashamed
Amanda
Colorado Sundown
Mattie, Jackie's Maid
Pick-up
Magnolia (uncredited)
Six Cylinder Love
Dixie Jamboree
Opal
Tell It to the Judge
Cleo, Marsha's Maid (uncredited)
Divorce In The Family
Rosetta
The Headleys at Home
Hyacinth
I Believed in You
Prisoner
The Phantom Broadcast
Minnie
Registered Nurse
Flo - Sadie's Maid
The Vanishing Virginian
Aunt Emmeline
I Dream of Jeanie
Mammy
Life Goes On
Sally Weston
Second Choice
Maid (uncredited)
The Lady's from Kentucky
Aunt Tina
Street of Women
Mattie, Natalie's maid
Her Splendid Folly
Anastasia
West of the Pecos
Mauree
Reckless Living
Maid
Virginia
Ophelia
Too Busy to Work
Mammy
Notorious But Nice
Ophelia
Merry Wives of Reno
Derwent's Client - Black Mother of 12 Wanting a Divorce (uncredited)
You're Telling Me
The Maid (uncredited)
What Price Innocence?
Hannah
She Couldn't Say No
Cora
It's Tough to Be Famous
Ada, Janet's Maid
Barnum Was Right
Maid
Beggar's Holiday
Heliotrope
Reform School
Mother Barton
Election Day
Farina's mother
Recaptured Love
Maid
Hunting Trouble
Lucy
Nix on Dames
Magnolia
Strictly Fresh Yeggs
Maid
Knights Before Christmas
The Hostess with the Mostes'
Mattie Mae