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Clara Blandick (born Clara Blanchard Dickey; June 4, 1876 – April 15, 1962) was an American character, film, stage and theater actress who portrayed Aunt Em in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's The Wizard of Oz (1939).
Clara Blandick. Actress: The Wizard of Oz. Clara Blandick was an American actress born as Clara Dickey and born aboard an American ship off the coast of Hong Kong on June 4, 1880. Little is known about her early life until she became an actress. She grew up in Boston and first acted on stage in E.H. Sothern's 'Richard Lovelace'.
Clara Blandick was a 20th century film actress who became immortalized as Auntie Em in the 1939 classic The Wizard of Oz. She had a long and successful career in theater and movies, but her life ended in a tragic suicide. What drove her to take her own life, and how did she do it?
Clara Blandick. Actress: The Wizard of Oz. Clara Blandick was an American actress born as Clara Dickey and born aboard an American ship off the coast of Hong Kong on June 4, 1880. Little is known about her early life until she became an actress. She grew up in Boston and first acted on stage in E.H. Sothern's 'Richard Lovelace'.
However, Clara Blandick, Judy's Aunt Em in the movie, probably had one of the sadest endings for anyone in that legendary cast. Clara Blandick was born in 1880 and grew up in Boston. By 1900 she began pursuing acting as a career.
Sadly Clara Blandick ended her own life in 1962, unable to cope with the pain of her arthritis and the news that she would soon go blind. She left behind a note that read “I am now about to make the great adventure.
Clara Blandick (born Clara Blanchard Dickey; June 4, 1876 – April 15, 1962) was an American character, film, stage and theater actress who portrayed Aunt Em in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's The Wizard of Oz (1939). As a character actress, she often played eccentric elderly matriarchs.
One such actress was Clara Blandick, a name some may not recall, but they would remember her face. Thanks to perennial TV airings and the advent of home video, generations of children have been exposed to her in what is undoubtedly her best-known part: Dorothy'...
Clara Blandick (born Clara Blanchard Dickey) was an American stage and screen actress best known for her role as Auntie Em in the beloved 1939 classic film The Wizard of Oz.
Clara Blandick (June 4, 1876 - April 15, 1962) an actress who played Aunt Em in MGM's 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. She had a long and productive stage career, and appeared in more than 100 films from 1911 to 1950.