Louise Beavers
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- March 8, 1902, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
- Died
- October 26, 1962
- Movies
- 148
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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 a narrative framework or other imagery of a black domestic servant, generally good-natured, often overweight, and loud".
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 1960 | The Facts of Life | Gussie |
| 1960 | All the Fine Young Cannibals | Rose |
| 1958 | The Goddess | The Cook |
| 1957 | Tammy and the Bachelor | Osia |
| 1957 | The Hostess with the Mostes' | Mattie Mae |
| 1956 | Teenage Rebel | Willamay |
| 1956 | You Can't Run Away from It | Maid |
| 1956 | Good-bye, My Lady | Bonnie Drew |
| 1953 | Never Wave at a WAC | Artamesa |
| 1952 | I Dream of Jeanie | Mammy |
| 1952 | Colorado Sundown | Mattie, Jackie's Maid |
| 1950 | My Blue Heaven | Selma |
| 1950 | The Jackie Robinson Story | Jackie's Mother |
| 1949 | Tell It to the Judge | Cleo, Marsha's Maid (uncredited) |
| 1948 | For the Love of Mary | Bertha |
| 1948 | Good Sam | Chloe |
| 1948 | A Southern Yankee | Laundry Woman |
| 1948 | Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House | Gussie |
| 1947 | Banjo | Aunt Lindy |
| 1946 | Lover Come Back | Martha, Martha, Kay's Maid |
| 1946 | Young Widow | Rosie |
| 1945 | Delightfully Dangerous | Hannah |
| 1944 | Barbary Coast Gent | Bedelia |
| 1944 | Dixie Jamboree | Opal, Sam the Deckhand |
| 1944 | South of Dixie | Magnolia Brown / Chloe |
| 1944 | Follow the Boys | Louise Beavers (uncredited) |
| 1943 | There's Something About a Soldier | Birdie |
| 1943 | Top Man | Cleo |
| 1943 | Du Barry Was a Lady | Niagara |
| 1943 | All by Myself | Willie |
| 1943 | Good Morning, Judge | Cleo |
| 1942 | Seven Sweethearts | Petunia, the Maid |
| 1942 | The Big Street | Ruby (uncredited) |
| 1942 | Holiday Inn | Mamie |
| 1942 | Reap the Wild Wind | Maum Maria |
| 1942 | Young America | Pansy |
| 1942 | The Vanishing Virginian | Aunt Emmeline |
| 1941 | Shadow of the Thin Man | Stella |
| 1941 | Belle Starr | Mammy Lou |
| 1941 | Kisses for Breakfast | Clotilda |
| 1941 | Sign of the Wolf | Beulah |
| 1941 | Virginia | Ophelia |
| 1940 | I Want a Divorce | Celestine |
| 1940 | No Time for Comedy | Clementine |
| 1940 | Primrose Path | Woman Talking to Police (uncredited) |
| 1940 | Women Without Names | Ivory |
| 1940 | Parole Fixer | Aunt Lindy |
| 1939 | The Lady's from Kentucky | Aunt Tina |
| 1939 | Reform School | Mother Barton |
| 1939 | Made for Each Other | Lily (uncredited) |
| 1938 | Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus | Cassey |
| 1938 | The Headleys at Home | Hyacinth |
| 1938 | Brother Rat | Jenny |
| 1938 | Life Goes On | Sally Weston |
| 1938 | Scandal Street | Clairce |
| 1937 | The Last Gangster | Gloria |
| 1937 | Love in a Bungalow | Millie |
| 1937 | Wings Over Honolulu | Mammy |
| 1937 | Make Way for Tomorrow | Mamie |
| 1936 | Rainbow on the River | Toinette |
| 1936 | General Spanky | Cornelia |
| 1936 | Wives Never Know | Florabelle |
| 1936 | Bullets or Ballots | Nellie LaFleur |
| 1935 | Annapolis Farewell | Miranda |
| 1934 | West of the Pecos | Mauree |
| 1934 | Imitation of Life | Delilah Johnson |
| 1934 | Beggar's Holiday | Heliotrope |
| 1934 | I Give My Love | Maid |
| 1934 | Dr. Monica | Sarah - Mary's Maid (uncredited) |
| 1934 | The Merry Frinks | Camille |
| 1934 | Cheaters | Lily |
| 1934 | A Modern Hero | Azais's Maid |
| 1934 | Merry Wives of Reno | Derwent's Client - Black Mother of 12 Wanting a Divorce (uncredited) |
| 1934 | Glamour | Millie |
| 1934 | I Believed in You | Prisoner |
| 1934 | Strictly Fresh Yeggs | Maid |
| 1934 | Registered Nurse | Flo - Sadie's Maid |
| 1934 | The Woman Condemned | Sally |
| 1934 | Gambling Lady | Suzy - Peter's Cook (uncredited) |
| 1934 | I've Got Your Number | Crystal |
| 1934 | Bedside | Pansy |
| 1934 | Palooka | Crystal |
| 1933 | In the Money | Lily |
| 1933 | Only Yesterday | Abby (Uncredited) |
| 1933 | Bombshell | Loretta |
| 1933 | Her Splendid Folly | Anastasia |
| 1933 | Notorious But Nice | Ophelia |
| 1933 | The Midnight Patrol | Maid (scenes deleted) |
| 1933 | A Shriek in the Night | Maid |
| 1933 | Her Bodyguard | Margot's Maid |
| 1933 | Midnight Mary | Mary's Maid Anna (uncredited) |
| 1933 | Hold Your Man | Elite Club Attendant (uncredited) |
| 1933 | What Price Innocence? | Hannah |
| 1933 | The Story of Temple Drake | Minnie |
| 1933 | The Big Cage | Mandy |
| 1933 | Central Airport | Hotel Maid (uncredited) |
| 1933 | Pick-up | Magnolia (uncredited) |
| 1933 | The Phantom Broadcast | Minnie |
| 1933 | 42nd Street | Pansy (uncredited) |
| 1933 | Girl Missing | Julie, Daisy's Maid (Uncredited) |
| 1933 | She Done Him Wrong | Pearl |
| 1933 | Hunting Trouble | Lucy |
| 1932 | Too Busy to Work | Mammy |
| 1932 | Wild Girl | Mammy Lou (uncredited) |
| 1932 | Hell's Highway | Rascal's Sweetheart at Visitor's Center (uncredited) |
| 1932 | Divorce In The Family | Rosetta |
| 1932 | Doctor X | Louise (Uncredited) |
| 1932 | Unashamed | Amanda |
| 1932 | What Price Hollywood? | Mary's Maid Bonita |
| 1932 | The Dark Horse | Kay's Maid Levinnia |
| 1932 | Street of Women | Mattie, Natalie's maid |
| 1932 | The Strange Love of Molly Louvain | Washroom Attendant (uncredited) |
| 1932 | Night World | Maid (uncredited) |
| 1932 | Young America | Maid (Uncredited) |
| 1932 | You're Telling Me | The Maid (uncredited) |
| 1932 | It's Tough to Be Famous | Ada, Janet's Maid |
| 1932 | The Expert | Lulu |
| 1932 | The Greeks Had a Word for Them | Beautician (uncredited) |
| 1931 | Ladies of the Big House | Ivory |
| 1931 | Good Sport | September |
| 1931 | Girls About Town | Hattie |
| 1931 | Reckless Living | Maid |
| 1931 | Sundown Trail | Auntie Jenny |
| 1931 | Party Husband | Laura's Maid |
| 1931 | Six Cylinder Love | |
| 1931 | Don't Bet on Women | Maid (uncredited) |
| 1931 | Millie | Maid (uncredited) |
| 1930 | Paid | Convict (uncredited) |
| 1930 | Knights Before Christmas | |
| 1930 | Bright Lights | Angela |
| 1930 | Outside the Law | Judy the Maid |
| 1930 | Manslaughter | Rose |
| 1930 | Our Blushing Brides | Amelia - The Mannequins' Maid (uncredited) |
| 1930 | Recaptured Love | Maid |
| 1930 | Back Pay | Nellie - Hester's Maid |
| 1930 | Safety in Numbers | Messalina |
| 1930 | True to the Navy | Maid (uncredited) |
| 1930 | Honey | Black Revivalist |
| 1930 | She Couldn't Say No | Cora |
| 1930 | Wide Open | Easter |
| 1930 | Second Choice | Maid (uncredited) |
| 1929 | Wall Street | Magnolia |
| 1929 | Nix on Dames | Magnolia |
| 1929 | Barnum Was Right | Maid |
| 1929 | Thunderbolt | Black Cat Cafe Patron (uncredited) |
| 1929 | Glad Rag Doll | Hannah |
| 1929 | Coquette | Julia |
| 1929 | Election Day | Farina's mother |
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