This set of pages is dedicated to the supporting actresses in Tyrone Power's films. These ladies played smaller roles, but often quite memorable ones. Most of these ladies were character actresses, who kept quite busy, playing in dozens of films. Some of the very best played in Ty's movies. They often played his mother, an aunt, or a friend. Fans may or may not know their names, but they would recognize their faces and voices. Some of the actresses listed on these pages don't actually fall into the "character actress category". They may be singers, dancers, or specialty acts.

pictured left - Ty and Jane Darwell, movie still from Jesse James.

Agnes Moorehead

Born
December 6, 1900, Clinton, Massachusetts

Died
April 30, 1974, Rochester, Minnesota (lung cancer)

Filmography

Movie with Ty
Untamed (1955) (Aggie )

Other movies
Citizen Kane (1941)
Since You Went Away (1944)
Jane Eyre (1944)

Film career spanned
1941 - 1974 (Dear Dead Delilah, her last movie released 1975, after her death.)

Academy Academy Award Nominations

1943 - Best Actress in a Supporting Role for The Magnificent Ambersons
1945 - Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Mrs. Parkington
1949 - Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Johnny Belinda
1965 - Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte


A few other stars she worked with
Orson Welles, Ricardo Montalban, Maurice Chevalier, Alec Guinness

Tidbit
In 1956, Agnes Moorehead filmed the movie, The Conqueror, on location in St. George, Utah. The location was close to an atomic bomb testing site. The director of the movie, Dick Powell, and many in the cast, including John Wayne, John Hoyt, Agnes Moorehead, and Susan Hayward, among others, died of cancer, most likely caused by radioactive toxins in the area of the bomb testing site.

Betsy Palmer

Born
November 1, 1926, East Chicago, Indiana

Filmography

Movie with Ty
The Long Gray Line (1955) (Kitty Carter)

Other movies
Mister Roberts (1955)
The Last Angry Man (1959)
Friday the 13th (1980)

Film career spanned
1951 - present



A few other stars she worked with
Paul Muni, Henry Fonda, Anthony Perkins, James Cagney

Tidbit
Betsy Palmer has worked in stage, film, and, television. She appeared on Broadway in six shows, between 1955-1976.

Binnie Barnes

Born
May 25, 1903, Islington, London, England

Died
July 27, 1998, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California

Filmography

Movie with Ty
Day-Time Wife (1939) (Blanche)

Other movies
Diamond Jim (1935)
The Three Musketeers (1939)
I Married an Angel (1942)



Film career spanned
1931 - 1973

A few other stars she worked with
Franchot Tone, Cary Grant, William Powell, Robert Taylor

Tidbit
She was married to Columbia Studio executive Mike Frankovich from 1940, until his death in 1992.

Dixie Dunbar

Born
January 19, 1919, Montgomery, Alabama

Died
August 29, 1991, Miami Beach, Florida (heart attack)

Filmography

Movies with Ty
Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938) (specialty dancer)
Girls' Dormitory (1936) (Luisa )

Other movies
Life Begins in College (1937)
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1937)
One in a Million (1937)

Film career spanned
1934 - 1938

A few other stars she worked with
Randolph Scott, Jack Haley, Tony Martin, Gilbert Roland

Tidbit
Dixie Dunbar was a talented singer and dancer. She appeared at age 16 on Broadway in Life Begins at 8:30, along with Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Brian Donlevy, and others. The show ran for 237 performances, from Aug 27, 1934 - Mar 16, 1935. She appeared again on Broadway in Yokel Boy in 1939, with Buddy Ebsen, Phil Silver, and Judy Canova. That show ran for 208 performances, from 7/6/1939 - 1/6/1940. After just a few years of filmmaking, she gave up her career. Dixie at one time dated Tyrone Power.

Edna May Oliver

Born
November 9, 1883, Malden, Massachusetts

Died
November 9, 1942, Los Angeles, California (intestinal disorder)

Filmography

Movie with Ty
Second Fiddle (1939) (Aunt Phoebe)




Other movies
Pride and Prejudice (1940)
Rosalie (1937)
A Tale of Two Cities (1935)

Film career spanned
1923 - 1941

Academy Award Nominations
1940 Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)

A few other stars she worked with
Laurence Olivier, Fred Astaire, Nelson Eddy, Leslie Howard

Tidbit
Edna May Oliver played in a 1923 movie with Tyrone Power, Sr. (Ty's dad)

Elsa Lanchester

Born
October 28, 1902, Lewisham, London, England

Died
December 26, 1986, Woodland Hills, California (bronchial pneumonia)

Filmography

Movies with Ty
Son of Fury (1942) (Bristol Isabel)
The Razor's Edge (1946) (Princess Novemali's secretary)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957) (Miss Plimsoll, the nurse)

Other movies
The Bishop's Wife (1947)
Les Miserables (1952)
Bell Book and Candle (1958)

Film career spanned
1927 - 1980

Academy Award Nominations
1950 Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Come to the Stable
1958 Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Witness for the Prosecution

A few other stars she worked with
James Stewart, Charles Boyer, Ricardo Montalban, Henry Fonda

Tidbit
Elsa Lanchester was the wife of actor Charles Laughton from 1929, until his death in 1962.

Gale Sondergaard

Born
February 15, 1899, Litchfield, Minnesota

Died
August 14, 1985, Woodland Hills, California (cerebral vascular thrombosis)

Filmography

Movie with Ty
The Mark of Zorro (1940) (Inez Quintero)

Other movies
The Letter (1940)
The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
The Time of Their Lives (1946)

Film career spanned
1936 - 1983

Academy Awards Won
1937 Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Anthony Adverse
Academy Award Nominations
1947 Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Anna and the King of Siam

A few other stars she worked with
Rex Harrison, Boris Karloff, Gene Kelly, James Stewart

Tidbit
Gale Sondergaard and her husband, Herbert J. Biberman (director, producer, writer) both suffered from the blacklisting which followed House Un-American Activities Committee hearings. Her last film of the golden era was 1949's East Side, West Side. Twenty years later, she returned to films and television.

Hope Emerson

Born
October 29, 1897, Hawarden, Iowa

Died
April 25, 1960, Hollywood, California (liver ailment)

Filmography

Movies with Ty
That Wonderful Urge (1948) (Mrs. Riley, the landlady)
Untamed (1955) (Maria DeGroot)


Other movies
Adam's Rib (1949)
Westward the Women (1951)
Caged (1950)

Film career spanned
1948 - 1959

Academy Award Nominations
1951 Nominated Oscar Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Caged

A few other stars she worked with
Robert Taylor, Bob Hope, Edward G. Robinson, Ray Milland

Tidbit
Hope Emerson was fifty-one when she began her film career. Prior to her film career, she was a stage actress, appearing on Broadway a few times.

Joan Davis

Born
June 29, 1907, St. Paul, Minnesota

Died
May 22, 1961, Palm Springs, California (heart attack)

Filmography

Movies with Ty
Thin Ice (1937) (orchestra leader, singer)
Day-Time Wife (1939) (secretary, Miss Applegate)

Other movies
Hold That Ghost (1941)
Sun Valley Serenade (1941)
Just Around the Corner (1938)


Film career spanned
1935-1952

A few other stars she worked with
Dick Powell, Eddie Cantor, Lou Costello, Tony Martin

Tidbit
Joan Davis began her career in Vaudeville. She was known for her physical comedy, as well as her ability to deliver a line. In the 1950's, she became a top TV star.

Juliette Greco

Born
February 7, 1927, Montpellier, Hérault, Languedoc-Roussillon, France

Filmography

Movie with Ty
The Sun Also Rises (1957) (Georgette)

Other movies
The Night of the Generals (1967)
The Roots of Heaven (1958)
Bonjour tristesse (1958)



Film career spanned
1948 - present

A few other stars she worked with
Peter O'Toole, Glenn Ford, Orson Welles, David Niven

Tidbit
Juliette Greco is a well-known French recording artist, as well as actress. She appeared in French films until Darryl F. Zanuck began casting her in films in the late 1950's and early 1960's.

June Story

Born
April 20, 1918, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

December 18, 1991, Vista, California (cancer)

Filmography

Movie with Ty
Girls' Dormitory (1936) (Greta )
Thin Ice (1937) (uncredited - member of girls' band)
In Old Chicago (1937) (Gretchen O'Leary)


Other movies
The Snake Pit (1948)
Cry of the City (1948)
First Love (1939)

Film career spanned
1934-1949

A few other stars she worked with
Victor Mature, Gene Autry, Bert Lahr, George Sanders

Tidbit
June Story was leading lady in ten Gene Autry Films, during 1939 and 1940.

Lucile Watson

Born
May 27, 1879, Québec, Canada

Died
June 24, 1962, New York, New York

Filmography

Movies with Ty
The Razors Edge (1946) (Louisa Bradley)
That Wonderful Urge (1948) (Aunt Cornelia Farley)

Other movies
The Women (1939)
Song of the South (1946)
Little Women (1949)

Film career spanned
1916 -1951

Academy Award Nominations
1944 Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Watch on the Rhine

A few other stars she worked with
William Powell, Peter Lawford, Errol Flynn, Bing Crosby

Tidbit
Between the years 1902-1954, Lucile Watson appeared in about fifty Broadway productions.

Lynn Bari

Born
December 18, 1913, Roanoke, Virginia

Died
November 20, 1989, Santa Barbara, California (heart attack)

Filmography

Movies with Ty
Girls' Dormitory (1936) (uncredited student)
Ladies in Love (1936) (uncredited dress shop clerk)
Love Is News (1937) (secretary)
Cafe Metropole (1937) (uncredited bit part)
Blood and Sand (1941) (Encarnacíon)

Other movies
Sun Valley Serenade (1941)
Margie (1946)
Orchestra Wives (1942)

Film career spanned
1933 - 1968

A few other stars she worked with
Charles Boyer, Henry Fonda, Vincent Price, Clark Gable

Tidbit
Lynn Bari once confessed that Tyrone Power was one of her "great crushes".

Rita Moreno

Born
December 11, 1931, Humacao, Puerto Rico

Filmography

Movie with Ty
Untamed (1955) (Julia)

Other movies
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
The King and I (1956)
The Toast of New Orleans (1950)


Film career spanned
1950 - present

Academy Awards Won
1962 Best Actress in a Supporting Role for West Side Story

A few other stars she worked with
Mario Lanza, Howard Keel, Gene Kelly, Ricardo Montalban

Tidbit
Rita Moreno has won an Oscar (1962 - West Side Story); a Tony (for 1975's The Ritz); two Emmys (1974 - The Muppets and 1978 - The Rockford Files), a Grammy (1972 - Electric Company Album), and a Golden Globe (1962 - West Side Story).