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.

KNOWN FOR

The Wizard of Oz
1939
A Star Is Born
1937
Heaven Can Wait
1943
Drums Along the Mohawk
1939
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1939
Possessed
1931
The Big Store
1941
North West Mounted Police
1940
Key to the City
1950
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
1936
Rings on Her Fingers
1942
Du Barry Was a Lady
1943

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
107
1950
Riding High
as Mrs. Peterson (archive footage) (uncredited)
1950
Key to the City
as Liza, Silas' housekeeper
1949
Mr. Soft Touch
as Susan Balmuss
1948
The Bride Goes Wild
as Aunt Pewtie
1947
Philo Vance Returns
as Stella Blendon
1947
Life with Father
as Miss Wiggins
1946
So Goes My Love
as Mrs. Meade
1946
People Are Funny
as Grandma Wilson
1946
She-Wolf of London
as Mrs. McBroom (uncredited)
1946
A Stolen Life
as Martha
1946
Claudia and David
as Mrs. Barry
1945
Frontier Gal
as Abigail
1945
Pillow of Death
as Belle Kincaid
1944
Can't Help Singing
as Aunt Cissy
1944
Shadow of Suspicion
as Mother Randall
1943
Du Barry Was a Lady
as Old Lady on Subway (uncredited)
1943
Heaven Can Wait
as Grandmother Van Cleve (uncredited)
1942
Gentleman Jim
as Woman on Train (uncredited)
1942
Rings on Her Fingers
1942
Lady in a Jam
as Tourist (uncredited)
1941
It Started with Eve
as Nurse
1941
Private Nurse
as Miss Phillips
1941
The Big Store
as Customer Seeking Record (uncredited)
1941
The Nurse's Secret
as Aunt Juliet Mitchell
1941
The Get-Away
as Mrs. Higgins
1941
The Wagons Roll at Night
as Mrs. Williams
1941
One Foot in Heaven
as Sister Watkins (uncredited)
1940
Youth Will Be Served
as Miss Bradshaw
1940
Tomboy
as Aunt Martha
1940
Alice in Movieland
as Grandmother
1940
North West Mounted Police
as Mrs. Burns
1940
Dreaming Out Loud
as Jessica Spencer
1939
The Wizard of Oz
as Auntie Em
1939
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
as Miss Watson
1939
The Star Maker
as Miss Esther Jones
1939
Drums Along the Mohawk
as Mrs. Borst
1939
Swanee River
as Mrs. Griffin
1938
Crime Ring
as Phoebe Sawyer
1938
Tom Sawyer, Detective
as Aunt Polly
1938
Professor Beware
as Mrs. Green - Landlady
1938
My Old Kentucky Home
as Julia 'Granny' Blair
1938
Swing, Sister, Swing
as Ma Sisler
1937
Small Town Boy
as Mrs. Armstrong
1937
You Can't Have Everything
as Townswoman (uncredited)
1937
Her Husband's Secretary
as Agatha 'Aunt Gussie' Kingdon
1937
Wings Over Honolulu
as Evie Curtis
1937
A Star Is Born
as Aunt Mattie (uncredited)
1937
The Road Back
as Willy's Mother
1936
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
as Gaptown Landlady
1936
The Gorgeous Hussy
as Louisa Abbott
1936
The Case of the Velvet Claws
as Mary F. O'Daugherty
1936
Hearts Divided
as Aunt Ellen
1936
In His Steps
as Martha Adams
1936
Make Way for a Lady
as Mrs. Dell, Drew's Maid
1936
Anthony Adverse
as Mrs. Jorham
1935
Straight from the Heart
as Mrs. Anderson
1935
The Winning Ticket
as Aunt Maggie
1935
Party Wire
as Mathilda Sherman
1935
Transient Lady
as Eva Branham
1934
Broadway Bill
as Mrs. Peterson
1934
As the Earth Turns
as Cora
1934
The Girl from Missouri
as Miss Newberry
1934
The Show-Off
as Mrs. 'Ma'
1934
The President Vanishes
as Mrs. Delling
1934
Fugitive Lady
as Aunt Margaret
1934
Harold Teen
as Ma Lovewell
1934
Jealousy
as Mrs. Douglas
1934
Beloved
as Miss Murfee
1934
Sisters Under the Skin
as Miss Gower
1933
Child of Manhattan
as Aunt Sophie
1933
Turn Back the Clock
as Mrs. Gimlet, Joe's Mother
1933
Ever in My Heart
as Anna, the Cook
1933
The Mind Reader
as Auntie (uncredited)
1933
Going Hollywood
as Ms. Perkins
1933
Three Cornered Moon
as Ronald’s Landlady (uncredited)
1933
Charlie Chan's Greatest Case
as Minerva Winterslip
1932
Life Begins
as Mrs. West
1932
Rockabye
as Brida
1932
Shopworn
as Mrs. Helen Livingston
1932
The Wet Parade
as Mrs. Tarleton
1932
Three on a Match
as Mrs. Keaton (uncredited)
1932
The Strange Case of Clara Deane
as Mrs. Lyons (scenes deleted)
1931
Possessed
as Mrs. Martin
1931
Bought!
as Mrs. Sprig
1931
New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford
as Mrs. Layton
1931
The Drums of Jeopardy
as Aunt Abbie
1931
Laughing Sinners
as Salvation Army Woman
1931
Huckleberry Finn
as Aunt Polly
1931
Once a Sinner
as Mrs. Mason
1931
The Easiest Way
as Agnes Murdock
1931
Murder at Midnight
as Aunt Julia Gray Kennedy
1931
Daybreak
as Frau Hoffman
1931
I Take This Woman
as Ranch Wife
1931
Inspiration
as Madeleine's Mother (uncredited)
1931
It's a Wise Child
as Mrs. Stanton
1930
Romance
as Abigail Armstrong
1930
Men Are Like That
as Ma Fisher
1930
The Sins of the Children
as Martha Wagenkampf
1930
The Girl Said No
as Mrs. Ward
1930
Burning Up
as Mrs. Minnie Winkle
1930
The Last of the Duanes
as Mrs. Duane
1930
Poor Aubrey
as Mrs. Fisher - Aubrey's Mother-in-Law
1930
Tom Sawyer
as Aunt Polly
1929
Wise Girls
as Mrs. Bence
1917
Peggy, the Will O' the Wisp
as Mrs. Donnelly
1916
The Stolen Triumph
as Mrs. Rowley
1915
The Cabaret Singer
as Mrs. Denton