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Blanche Yurka (born Blanch Jurka; June 19, 1887 – June 6, 1974) was an American stage and film actress and director. She was an opera singer with minor roles at the Metropolitan Opera and later became a stage actress, making her Broadway debut in 1906 and established herself as a character actor of the classical stage, also ...
Blanche Yurka. Actress: A Tale of Two Cities. This imposing-looking stage star of early 20th century Broadway was born Blanche Jurka to Bohemian immigrants on June 18, 1887 in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Jun 7, 1974 · Blanche Yurka, the Broadway star whose acting career spanned more than half a century, died yesterday of arteriolosclerosis at Mount Sinai Hospital. Miss Yurka, who was 86 years old, lived at...
Yurka, Blanche (1887–1974) American actress and writer. Name variations: Blanche Jurka. Born on June 19, 1887, in Czechoslovakia; died on June 6, 1974, in New York City; daughter of Anton Jurka and Karolina (Novak) Jurka; attended Wadleigh High School (1901–03), Metropolitan Opera School (1903–05), Institute of Musical Art (now Juilliard ...
Blanche Yurka was an American stage and film actress and director. She was an opera singer with minor roles at the Metropolitan Opera and later became a stage actress, making her Broadway debut in 1906 and established herself as a character actor of the classical stage, also appearing in several films of the 1930s and 1940s.
Blanche Yurka. Actress: A Tale of Two Cities. This imposing-looking stage star of early 20th century Broadway was born Blanche Jurka to Bohemian immigrants on June 18, 1887 in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Cry Of The Werewolf (1944) -- (Movie Clip) Customs Of My People The undertaker (Milton Parsons) was about to introduce gypsy elder Bianca (Blanche Yurka) and princess Celeste (Nina Foch) to Bob (Stephen Crane), secretly investigating the murder-by-werewolf of his father, spooky stalking in Columbia's Cry Of The Werewolf, 1944.
Blanche Yurka is known as an Actor. Some of her work includes A Tale of Two Cities, The Southerner, The Song of Bernadette, One Body Too Many, The Furies, Cry of the Werewolf, City for Conquest, and Lady for a Night.
Blanche Yurka (1887-1974) was an actress born in St Paul, Minnesota. She was also an opera singer when she made her debut as a character actor on Broadway in 1910. Turning to the screen, she is most remembered for the role as the vicious Madame Defarge in "A Tale of Two Cities" (1935).
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