You should see her in George Stevens’ “Vivacious Lady” with Ginger Rogers and James Stewart. She let’s her hair down a little and does the “Big Apple.” It’s the only film in which she is mildly subversive.
Adorable as the Fred MacMurray’s doting mother to come home to in “Remember the Night,” protecting her son from the wonderfully wild Barbara Stanwyck.
As Ma Bailery, the look she gives her “never been born” son George when he comes to the door of her boarding house completely flattens/floors/stuns me.
Even as a kid, I recall her beautifully nuanced performance as Aunt Corinne on two very special episodes of “The Waltons.”
Never get tired of watching this grand lady.
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FROM the fabulous and now out of print coffee table book " Return Engagement Faces To Remember Then And Now" by James Watters and photographer Horst , “Beulah would never name her favorite roles. But Granny Tucker, the old crone who wouldn’t come in from the rain in Jean Renoir’s THE SOUTHERNER , and her single starring role in McCarey’s MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW, in which she and Victor Moore played rejected parents who had to seperate because their children would not take them in , were very dear to her.”
“Her final appearance was on the American Film Institute television tribute to James Stewart in 1980. Henry Fonda introduced her simply: Beulah Bondi, one of Hollywood’s most beloved Actresses.”