Symona Boniface

Acting

Symona Boniface

Born — Died

1894-03-04 — 1950-09-02

Place of birth

New York City, New York, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

Symona Ferner Boniface (March 5, 1894 – September 2, 1950) was an American film actress, most frequently seen in bit parts in comedy shorts, mostly at Columbia Pictures, particularly those of The Three Stooges. She appeared in 120 films between 1925 and 1950.

Known for

Film credits

1950s · 4 titles

1940s · 32 titles

Gilda poster
7.5

A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.

Gilda

1946

Angel and the Badman poster
6.4

A wounded outlaw finds unexpected mercy in the care of a rancher's daughter. The hope of love pulls him toward a different life until the law, and his violent past, close in on his new home. Now he must choose the kind of man he'll become.

Angel and the Badman

1947

Woman of the Year poster
7.0

Rival reporters Sam Craig and Tess Harding fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle.

Woman of the Year

1942

The Man from Colorado poster
6.9

Two friends return home after their discharge from the army after the Civil War. However, one of them has had deep-rooted psychological damage due to his experiences during the war, and as his behavior becomes more erratic--and violent--his friend desperately tries to find a way to help him.

The Man from Colorado

1948

Lost in a Harem poster
5.6

Two bumbling magicians help a Middle Eastern prince regain his rightful throne from his despotic uncle.

Lost in a Harem

1944

Mrs. Parkington poster
6.0

In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid in frontier Nevada where she is swept off her feet by mine owner and financier Augustus Parkington. He moves them to New York, tries to remake her into a society woman, and establishes their home among the wealthiest of New York's high society. Family and social life is not always peaceful, however, and she guides us, in flashbacks, through the rises and falls of the Parkington family fortunes.

Mrs. Parkington

1944

Born to Kill poster
6.7

A calculating divorcée risks her chances at wealth and security with a man she doesn't love by getting involved with a hotheaded murderer.

Born to Kill

1947

Murder in Times Square poster
4.7

An actor becomes a suspect in the murders of four New Yorkers injected with rattlesnake venom.

Murder in Times Square

1943

Two Sisters from Boston poster
6.3

Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New York. In reality, she works at a burlesque house and is billed as High-C Susie. When her sister Martha comes for a visit, Abigail tries to hide the truth from her.

Two Sisters from Boston

1946

The Good Bad Egg poster
7.0

In this Columbia All-Star Comedy short (production number 8438), Joe DeRita is a bachelor inventor who reads a marriage proposal written on an egg by a lonely widow with one child. He accepts, and soon finds out the boy is the "bad" part of the egg in the title, as he soon destroys whatever it was that Joe had invented.

The Good Bad Egg

1947

The Notorious Lone Wolf poster
6.0

Ex-thief Lone Wolf and his valet don turbans to solve a museum jewel theft.

The Notorious Lone Wolf

1946

The Mysterious Mr. Valentine poster
4.4

Janet Spencer is driving down a country road when one of her tires blows out. This seemingly innocuous, everyday occurrence leads Linda into a labyrinth of murder, blackmail and intrigue.

The Mysterious Mr. Valentine

1946

Slappily Married poster
6.5

Joe's wife, who thinks he's been carrying on with another woman, moves out.

Slappily Married

1946

No Census, No Feeling poster
6.6

The stooges get jobs as census takers and wind up in a fancy mansion looking for people to survey. Moe and Larry are recruited to join a bridge game, while Curly adds Alum to the lemonade. The resulting concoction is consumed by everyone, resulting in puckered lips and shrunken clothes. The boys next try to take the census at a football stadium. They disguise themselves as players and wind up in the middle of the game. Curly runs off with the ball and all the other players in pursuit.

No Census, No Feeling

1940

In the Sweet Pie and Pie poster
7.1

The Stooges are convicts about to be executed for some murders they didn't commit.

In the Sweet Pie and Pie

1941

Micro-Phonies poster
6.2

The Stooges are working in a radio station where a pretty girl has just made a recording of "Voices of Spring" under an assumed name.

Micro-Phonies

1945

Born to Sing poster
5.4

A group of children put on a show in order to prove that a down and out musician was the real composer of a Broadway show's songs.

Born to Sing

1942

Slightly French poster
7.5

A film director, in bad standing with his studio, tries to turn a local carnival dancer into a "French" movie star and pass her off as his big new discovery.

Slightly French

1949

Jerks of All Trades poster
6.8

The Stooges are painters and paperhangers and completely wreck a hapless couples home.

Jerks of All Trades

1949

Gallant Journey poster
6.5

Director William A. Wellman adds another to his long line of salutes-to-aviation films in this bio of an aviation pioneer, John Montgomery (Glenn Ford.) In 1883 he built a practical glider despite the opposition of his friends, who thought he was crazy, and of his family, who were afraid that his dreams of flying would hurt his father's political ambitions. He pursues his education at Santa Clara University where the Jesuits lend a helping and understanding hand. An earthquake destroys what appears to be a working model for an airplane, but a gold-sorting machine Montgomery invented, and then neglected, promises to provide for his financial needs to keep working on his aircraft until he gets involved in costly lawsuits defending his invention.

Gallant Journey

1946

Girls of the Big House poster
7.5

A women's prison provides the setting for this drama that centers around a naive small-town woman framed by a man whom she met in a nightclub in the big city. She is not welcomed by the inmates and immediately the prisoners are divided.

Girls of the Big House

1945

Pitchin' in the Kitchen poster
7.0

While his wife works at a defense plant, Hugh stays home and tries to do the housework.

Pitchin' in the Kitchen

1943

Waiting in the Lurch poster
9.0

Joe's fiance doesn't like his obsession for chasing fire engines.

Waiting in the Lurch

1949

Waiting in the Lurch poster
9.0

Joe's fiance doesn't like his obsession for chasing fire engines.

Waiting in the Lurch

1949

Jiggers, My Wife poster
8.0

Shemp Howard, in this Columbia All-Star Comedy (production number 7438), knows many ways to get into trouble with his wife, and one he opts for here is stay out late playing poker with the boys and then tell his wife he has been working.

Jiggers, My Wife

1946

Pardon My Berth Marks poster
6.5

Buster, a reporter, takes a train trip and winds up innocently involved with a gangster's wife.

Pardon My Berth Marks

1940

Spook Louder poster
7.2

The stooges are door-to-door salesman peddling a weight reducing machine, until they come to the house of an eccentric inventor, where they are mistaken for new caretakers, are left to guard his house, and must contend with enemy spies and a mysterious pie thrower.

Spook Louder

1943

Some More of Samoa poster
6.0

The Stooges are tree surgeons who are enlisted by a rich old man to find a mate for his rare puckerless persimmon tree. The boys sail to the tropical island of Rhum-Boogie to find the tree. When they arrive they are captured by the natives and will be eaten unless Curly marries the Chief's ugly daughter. The boys escape with the tree and, after a confrontation with an alligator, sail off with their prize.

Some More of Samoa

1941

Souls in Pawn poster
10.0

Although she is secretly married to a student, a young girl is forced to give up her baby rather than be thought of as an "unwed mother".

Souls in Pawn

1940

Billie Gets Her Man poster
8.0

Billie has the mistaken impression that her only daughter is pregnant and must rush to the hospital. At the same time, her old boyfriend, now wealthy, returns to make amends with her.

Billie Gets Her Man

1948

Crash Goes the Hash poster
6.9

Its suspected that a society matron, Mrs. Van Bustle, will marry the exotic Prince Shaam. To get the story, reporters Curly, Larry and Moe take jobs in her mansion as a cook and two butlers. The parrot climbing into the turkey scene is a Stooge classic. This was the last of many Stooge appearances by supporting actor Bud Jamison, who passed away in September, 1944, at the age of 50. First appearance by Stooge supporting actress Judy Malcolm.

Crash Goes the Hash

1944

Loco Boy Makes Good poster
6.2

After being thrown out of their apartment, the Stooges try a scam to get some money: find a hotel, slip on a cake of soap, and sue the owners to get a huge settlement. In their attempts they come across an old lady who is on the brink of losing her hotel if she doesn't pay the interest on her note. Taking pity on her, they immediately start fixing up the place, turn it into a swanky nightclub, and go all out to impress important columnist Waldo Twitchell on opening night.

Loco Boy Makes Good

1942

1930s · 18 titles

Ninotchka poster
7.5

A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.

Ninotchka

1939

The House on 56th Street poster
5.4

A beautiful chorine marries a handsome rich socialite, but her idyllic life ends when she visits a dying old beau and is charged when he commits suicide.

The House on 56th Street

1933

Confession poster
6.3

Vera Kowalska is put on trial for murdering concert pianist Michael Michailow. In court it is revealed that some years earlier Michael ruined Vera's life.

Confession

1937

Arsène Lupin poster
7.0

A charming and very daring thief known as Arsene Lupin is terrorizing the wealthy of Paris. He even goes so far as to threaten the Mona Lisa. But the police, led by the great Guerchard, think they know Arsene Lupin's identity, and they have a secret weapon to catch him.

Arsène Lupin

1932

Call Her Savage poster
5.7

A high-spirited and short-tempered Texan woman storms her way through life until her luck runs out, forcing her to learn the error of her ways.

Call Her Savage

1932

Back Street poster
6.4

A woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets" of his life.

Back Street

1932

Tassels in the Air poster
6.8

The stooges are janitors in an office building. They stencil the wrong names on all the offices, causing a rich lady to mistakes Moe for famous decorator Omay. She hires the boys to redecorate her house, which they proceed to ruin. More trouble ensues when the real Omay shows up.

Tassels in the Air

1938

That Girl from Paris poster
6.9

Nikki Martin, a beautiful French opera star, stows away on an ocean liner in hopes of escaping her jealous fiancee. Once aboard, she joins an American swing band and falls in love with its leader, who, after hearing her sing, eventually comes to reciprocate her feelings.

That Girl from Paris

1936

The Mind Reader poster
6.2

Con-man Chandler and his partner Frank decide to start a clairvoyant act. Chandler falls for Sylvia, one of their marks, but their relationship is challenged when his deception impacts others' lives and Sylvia urges him to reform.

The Mind Reader

1933

The Public Defender poster
6.4

A mysterious phantom who calls himself The Reckoner vows to expose the crooked bankers who embezzled their company's funds.

The Public Defender

1931

On Your Toes poster
4.5

A Russian dance company agrees to stage the new ballet written by a vaudeville hoofer.

On Your Toes

1939

Women Are Like That poster
6.8

Businesswoman Claire King is the daughter of a powerful advertising executive. When Claire marries humble copywriter Bill Landin, she wants to use her influence to help her husband get ahead, but he will have none of it.

Women Are Like That

1938

Beauty for Sale poster
7.2

A beautiful woman lands a job at an exclusive salon that deals with the wives of wealthy businessmen. Her contact with these men leads to a series of affairs.

Beauty for Sale

1933

The Murder in the Museum poster
4.8

When a city councilman is murdered while investigating allegations of drug dealing going on a a somewhat disreputable sideshow, the daughter of the chief suspect teams up with a newspaper reporter to find the real killer.

The Murder in the Museum

1934

Shanghai poster
7.3

A New York socialite travels to Shanghai to visit her ailing aunt and falls in love with a Russian banker, who harbors a family secret.

Shanghai

1935

Daybreak poster
4.3

An Austrian soldier must choose between a wealthy fiancee and a new girl who takes his fancy.

Daybreak

1931

The Golden Arrow poster
6.3

A fake heiress marries a common reporter to thwart the advances of gold-digging playboys.

The Golden Arrow

1936

Among the Missing poster
6.5

Seeking to avoid arrest while fleeing through a city park at night, two jewel thieves, Gordon and young Tommy, stash some just-stolen jewels on elderly, unknowing Martha Abbott. They then invite Martha to come live with them as their housekeeper, duping her into helping fence their goods. When Martha eventually becomes aware of the criminal activities, she strives to help Tommy reform.

Among the Missing

1934

1920s · 6 titles