Vera Lewis Net Worth
Vera Lewis Net Worth is
$6 Million
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Vera Lewis (June 10, 1873 – February 8, 1956) was an American film and stage actress, beginning in the silent film era. She appeared in 183 films between 1915 and 1947. She was married to actor Ralph Lewis.She was born in New York, New York, where she began acting in stage productions. Her film career started in 1915 with the film Hypocrites, which starred Myrtle Stedman and Courtenay Foote. From 1915 to 1929 she appeared in 63 silent films, including the film classic Intolerance (1916).Unlike many silent film stars, she made a smooth transition to "talking films", starting with her 1930 appearance in Wide Open, starring Patsy Ruth Miller and Edward Everett Horton. Though never what is referred to as a "premier star", she appeared in 58 films during the 1930s, and another 60 during the 1940s. She retired after 1947, and resided in Woodland Hills, California at the time of her death on February 8, 1956. | Date Of Birth | June 10, 1873 |
| Died | 1956-02-08 |
| Place Of Birth | New York City, New York, USA |
| Height | 5' 8" (1.73 m) |
| Profession | Actress |
| Spouse | Ralph Lewis (actor) |
| Star Sign | Gemini |
| # | Fact |
|---|---|
| 1 | Sharp-featured small part character actress who played innumerable vitriolic, thoroughly unpleasant spinsters, gossips, stepmothers, landladies and other assorted harridans and dragons from the mid-1910's to the mid-40's. Unlike her screen personae, she was said to have been a really sweet person in real life. |
| 2 | Was the woman in theater audience who screams when Kong escapes in King Kong (1933). |
Actress
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| It Had to Be You | 1947 | Mrs. Brown (scenes deleted) | |
| Wife to Spare | 1947 | Short | Mrs. Upton |
| It Happened on Fifth Avenue | 1947 | Woman in Chauffeured Car (uncredited) | |
| Stallion Road | 1947 | Mrs. Pelton, Engagement Party Guest (uncredited) | |
| It's a Joke, Son! | 1947 | Hortense Dimwitty | |
| The Time, the Place and the Girl | 1946 | Scrubwoman (uncredited) | |
| The Killers | 1946 | Ma Hirsch (uncredited) | |
| Spook Busters | 1946 | Mrs. Grimm | |
| The Cat Creeps | 1946 | Cora Williams | |
| Cinderella Jones | 1946 | Woman in Courtroom (uncredited) | |
| Rhythm Round-Up | 1945 | Mrs. Squimp | |
| Hollywood and Vine | 1945 | Fanny | |
| I Was a Criminal | 1945 | ||
| The Suspect | 1944 | Hannah Barlow (uncredited) | |
| Mr. Skeffington | 1944 | Wife of Justice of the Peace (uncredited) | |
| Princess O'Rourke | 1943 | Matilda (uncredited) | |
| Someone to Remember | 1943 | Aggressive Miss Green | |
| The Gorilla Man | 1943 | Landlady (uncredited) | |
| The Hard Way | 1943 | Actress as 'Aunt Vera Elliott' in 'Morning Melody' (uncredited) | |
| Busses Roar | 1942 | Mrs. Dipper | |
| The Gay Sisters | 1942 | Courtroom Visitor with Dog (uncredited) | |
| The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady | 1942 | Short | Bit Role (uncredited) |
| Yankee Doodle Dandy | 1942 | Actress (uncredited) | |
| Moontide | 1942 | Mrs. Simpson (uncredited) | |
| Larceny, Inc. | 1942 | First Customer (uncredited) | |
| Lady Gangster | 1942 | Ma Silsby | |
| Bullet Scars | 1942 | Charles' Wife (uncredited) | |
| Remember the Day | 1941 | Teacher (uncredited) | |
| The Body Disappears | 1941 | Mrs. Moggs (uncredited) | |
| They Died with Their Boots On | 1941 | Head Nurse (uncredited) | |
| Miss Polly | 1941 | Elvira Pennywinkle | |
| Three Girls About Town | 1941 | Clubwoman (uncredited) | |
| One Foot in Heaven | 1941 | Mrs. Simpson (uncredited) | |
| Nine Lives Are Not Enough | 1941 | Mrs. Slocum | |
| The Smiling Ghost | 1941 | Mrs. Crockett (uncredited) | |
| Passage from Hong Kong | 1941 | Tourist (uncredited) | |
| Manpower | 1941 | Wife of the Justice of the Peace (uncredited) | |
| Bad Men of Missouri | 1941 | Mrs. Jordan (uncredited) | |
| Million Dollar Baby | 1941 | scenes deleted | |
| Model Wife | 1941 | Mrs. Leahy (uncredited) | |
| Knockout | 1941 | Mrs. Turner (scenes deleted) | |
| The Lady and the Lug | 1941 | Short | Elsa's Society Friend (uncredited) |
| Here Comes Happiness | 1941 | Mrs. James | |
| Cliff Edwards and His Buckaroos | 1941 | Short | Mrs. Marshall (uncredited) |
| Honeymoon for Three | 1941 | Book Club Member (uncredited) | |
| Four Mothers | 1941 | Mrs. Ridgefield | |
| She Couldn't Say No | 1940/II | Pansy Hawkins | |
| A Night at Earl Carroll's | 1940 | Maidy, Wardrobe Woman (uncredited) | |
| Father Is a Prince | 1940 | Carrie | |
| Always a Bride | 1940 | Second Old Maid (scenes deleted) | |
| Calling All Husbands | 1940 | Mrs. McGillicuddy (uncredited) | |
| Money and the Woman | 1940 | Mrs. Leslie, First Bank Depositor (uncredited) | |
| They Drive by Night | 1940 | Landlady (uncredited) | |
| All This, and Heaven Too | 1940 | Queen Amélia of France (uncredited) | |
| The Man Who Talked Too Much | 1940 | Undetermined Secondary Role (scenes deleted) | |
| Women in War | 1940 | Pierre's Wife (uncredited) | |
| An Angel from Texas | 1940 | Mrs. Gates (uncredited) | |
| The Courageous Dr. Christian | 1940 | Mrs. Norma Stewart | |
| Adventure in Diamonds | 1940 | Mrs. MacPherson | |
| Granny Get Your Gun | 1940 | Carrie | |
| Four Wives | 1939 | Mrs. Ridgefield | |
| Private Detective | 1939 | Mrs. Widner | |
| The Return of Doctor X | 1939 | Miss Sweetman | |
| Kid Nightingale | 1939 | Woman Crashing Vase (uncredited) | |
| The Roaring Twenties | 1939 | Mrs. Gray | |
| Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | 1939 | Mrs. Edwards (uncredited) | |
| Espionage Agent | 1939 | American Tourist Going to Desert (uncredited) | |
| Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase | 1939 | Miss Rosemary Turnbull | |
| Hell's Kitchen | 1939 | Sarah Krispan | |
| Naughty But Nice | 1939 | Aunt Annabella Hardwick | |
| Sweepstakes Winner | 1939 | Mrs. McCarthy, the Landlady | |
| Women in the Wind | 1939 | Farmer's Wife | |
| Dodge City | 1939 | League Member in Polka-Dot Dress (uncredited) | |
| On Trial | 1939 | Mrs. Leeds - Juror #8 | |
| Yes, My Darling Daughter | 1939 | Mrs. Dibble (uncredited) | |
| Torchy Blane in Chinatown | 1939 | Dowager (uncredited) | |
| Blackwell's Island | 1939 | Hospital Desk Nurse (uncredited) | |
| Devil's Island | 1939 | Gaudet's Housekeeper (uncredited) | |
| Comet Over Broadway | 1938 | Mrs. Appleton | |
| Angels with Dirty Faces | 1938 | Soapy's Mother (uncredited) | |
| Nancy Drew: Detective | 1938 | Miss Van Deering (uncredited) | |
| Torchy Gets Her Man | 1938 | Woman at Schmidt's Pet Store (uncredited) | |
| Hard to Get | 1938 | Mrs. Petewyler (uncredited) | |
| Girls on Probation | 1938 | Miss Lewis - Secretary (uncredited) | |
| The Sisters | 1938 | Dowager at Ball (uncredited) | |
| Broadway Musketeers | 1938 | Landlady (uncredited) | |
| Boy Meets Girl | 1938 | Studio Cleaning Woman (uncredited) | |
| Four Daughters | 1938 | Mrs. Ridgefield | |
| Mr. Chump | 1938 | Mrs. Fletcher (uncredited) | |
| The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse | 1938 | Juror (uncredited) | |
| Racket Busters | 1938 | Jordan's Neighbor (uncredited) | |
| Little Miss Thoroughbred | 1938 | Accident Spectator (uncredited) | |
| Crime School | 1938 | Aunt Liz (uncredited) | |
| In Old Chicago | 1937 | Wedding Witness (uncredited) | |
| Nothing Sacred | 1937 | Miss Sedgewick (uncredited) | |
| Maid of Salem | 1937 | Townswoman (uncredited) | |
| Missing Girls | 1936 | Ma Barton | |
| Dancing Pirate | 1936 | Orville's Mother (uncredited) | |
| Don't Get Personal | 1936 | Spinster (uncredited) | |
| Paddy O'Day | 1936 | Aunt Flora | |
| Never Too Late | 1935 | Mother Hartley | |
| Way Down East | 1935 | Mrs. Poole | |
| Navy Wife | 1935 | Bridge Player (uncredited) | |
| Man on the Flying Trapeze | 1935 | Mrs. Neselrode | |
| The Daring Young Man | 1935 | Secretary to the Duchess (uncredited) | |
| Alias Mary Dow | 1935 | Party Guest (uncredited) | |
| Roaring Roads | 1935 | Aunt Harriet | |
| The Meanest Gal in Town | 1934 | Woman at Mayor's Outing (uncredited) | |
| After Tonight | 1933 | Anna Huber, a Cleaner (uncredited) | |
| Meet the Baron | 1933 | Head Housekeeper (uncredited) | |
| My Lips Betray | 1933 | Gossipy Woman in Curlers (uncredited) | |
| Hold Your Man | 1933 | Mrs. Gargan (uncredited) | |
| King Kong | 1933 | New York Theatregoer (uncredited) | |
| Night Nurse | 1931 | Miss Dillon | |
| Command Performance | 1931 | Queen Elizabeth | |
| Just Imagine | 1930 | 1980 Census Taker (uncredited) | |
| Strictly Unconventional | 1930 | Duchess of Brocklehurst (uncredited) | |
| Wide Open | 1930 | Mrs. Hathaway - Agatha's Mother | |
| The Drake Case | 1929 | 'Miss' Drake (uncredited) | |
| Coquette | 1929 | Miss Jenkins (uncredited) | |
| The Iron Mask | 1929 | Madame Peronne | |
| The Home Towners | 1928 | Mrs. Calhoun | |
| Ramona | 1928 | Señora Moreno | |
| Something Always Happens | 1928 | Gräfin Agathe | |
| Satan and the Woman | 1928 | Mrs. Leone Daingerfield | |
| The Small Bachelor | 1927 | Mrs. Waddington | |
| What Happened to Father? | 1927 | Mrs. Bradberry | |
| Thumbs Down | 1927 | Mrs. Hale | |
| Resurrection | 1927 | Aunt Marya | |
| The Broken Gate | 1927 | Invalid | |
| Take It from Me | 1926 | Mrs. Forsythe | |
| King of the Pack | 1926 | 'Widder' Gasper | |
| The Lily | 1926 | Mrs. Arnaud Sr | |
| The Passionate Quest | 1926 | Mrs.Gardner | |
| Ella Cinders | 1926 | Ma Cinders | |
| The Gilded Butterfly | 1926 | Mrs. Ralston | |
| The Only Thing | 1925 | Princess Erek | |
| Stella Dallas | 1925 | Mrs. Tibbets | |
| Eve's Secret | 1925 | Duchess | |
| Enticement | 1925 | Mrs. Blake | |
| Who Cares | 1925 | Grandmother Ludlow | |
| The Dark Swan | 1924 | Mrs. Quinn | |
| In Every Woman's Life | 1924 | Diana Lansdale | |
| Cornered | 1924 | Mrs. Wells | |
| Broadway After Dark | 1924 | Mrs. Smith | |
| How to Educate a Wife | 1924 | Mrs. Bancks | |
| Innocence | 1923 | ||
| Long Live the King | 1923 | Archduchess Annuncita | |
| The Marriage Market | 1923 | Aunt Agnes Piggott | |
| Desire | 1923 | Mrs. De Witt Harlan | |
| Brass | 1923 | Mrs. Jones | |
| The Glorious Fool | 1922 | Miss Hart | |
| Peg o' My Heart | 1922 | Mrs. Chichester | |
| Nancy from Nowhere | 1922 | Mrs. Kelly | |
| She Couldn't Help It | 1920 | Mother Hogan | |
| A Full House | 1920 | Aunt Penelope | |
| The Poor Simp | 1920 | Mrs. Adams | |
| Nurse Marjorie | 1920 | Duchess of Donegal | |
| The Devil's Riddle | 1920 | Leading lady | |
| The Blooming Angel | 1920 | Floss's Aunt | |
| Lombardi, Ltd. | 1919 | Mollie | |
| The Merry-Go-Round | 1919 | Mrs. Pomeroy | |
| The Mother and the Law | 1919 | Miss Mary Jenkins | |
| Yvonne from Paris | 1919 | Aunt Marie Provost | |
| The Pest | 1919 | Housekeeper | |
| The Lamb and the Lion | 1919 | Mrs. Robert Derby | |
| As the Sun Went Down | 1919 | Ike's Wife | |
| The Long Lane's Turning | 1919 | Charlotte Allen | |
| The Vigilantes | 1918 | ||
| A Bit of Jade | 1918 | Mrs. Abigail King | |
| A Weaver of Dreams | 1918 | Aunt Hattie Taylor | |
| The Trouble Buster | 1917 | Mrs. Westfall | |
| Lost in Transit | 1917 | Mrs. Flint | |
| Jack and the Beanstalk | 1917 | The Giantess | |
| Married by Accident | 1917 | Short | Edna's Maid |
| Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages | 1916 | Mary Jenkins | |
| The Argonauts of California - 1849 | 1916 | ||
| The Price of Power | 1916 | Pauline Belmont - John's Second Wife | |
| Cross Currents | 1915 | Mrs. Van de Veer | |
| The Kid Magicians | 1915 | Short | Georgie's Mother |
| Betty in Search of a Thrill | 1915 | Mrs. Hastings | |
| Sunshine Molly | 1915 | Short | Mrs. O'Brien |
| The Caprices of Kitty | 1915 | Miss Smyth | |
| Hypocrites | 1915 | Parishioner (uncredited) | |
| Dot's Elopement | 1914 | Short | Dot's Mother (as Miss Lewis) |
Known for movies
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)
as Mary Jenkins
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
as Mrs. Gray
Ella Cinders (1926)
as Ma Cinders
The Iron Mask (1929)
as Madame Peronne