Ferike Boros

Acting

Ferike Boros

Born 1873-08-01 · Nagyvárad, Austria-Hungary [now Oradea, Romania]

Ferike Boros (3 August 1873 – 16 January 1951) was a Hungarian-born American stage and movie actress. Born in Nagyvárad, Austria-Hungary, in 1873, Boros was on stage starting in 1893. She moved to London in 1903, two years later appearing at Covent Garden. In Hungary, she performed in the National Court Theatre (NCT) in Budapest. In 1909, while still with the NCT, she visited the United States and Canada as part of a trip around the world to report on how dramatic productions were staged in each country that she visited. As she visited various theatrical managers in New York City, she regularly encountered rejection despite her official letter (written in English) from the NCT. In one office she was told, "Oh, Mr. Belasco is flooded with crazy communications from freaks and fakirs and cranks ..." After being well-coached in English and the conventions of American show business, she had a long career on the Broadway stage and in theatrical touring companies, from 1909 through 1927; thereafter she was seen in character roles in motion pictures. Boros died in her home in Van Nuys, California, on 16 January 1951, aged 77. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ferike Boros, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

The Talk of the Town poster
7.3

Hilarity ensues when a falsely accused fugitive from justice hides at the house of his childhood friend, which she has recently rented to a high-principled law teacher.

The Talk of the Town

1942

Born Reckless poster
5.7

In order to use the publicity to get re-elected, a judge sentences a notorious gangster to fight in the war.

Born Reckless

1930

Little Caesar poster
6.9

A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?

Little Caesar

1931

Make Way for Tomorrow poster
7.5

An elderly couple are forced to separate themselves from each other after their children refuse to take both into one house.

Make Way for Tomorrow

1937

Christmas in July poster
7.0

An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford House Coffee Slogan Contest. As a joke, some of his co-workers put together a fake telegram which says that he won the $25,000 grand prize.

Christmas in July

1940

Bachelor Mother poster
7.2

Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling. Outraged at Polly's unmotherly conduct, David Merlin becomes determined to keep the single woman and "her" baby together.

Bachelor Mother

1939

Love Affair poster
7.0

A French playboy and an American former nightclub singer fall in love aboard a ship. They arrange to reunite six months later, if neither has changed their mind.

Love Affair

1939

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn poster
7.5

In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well through big and little troubles: Aunt Sissy's scandalous succession of "husbands"; the removal of the one tree visible from their tenement; and young Francie's desire to transfer to a better school...if irresponsible Papa can get his act together.

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

1945

East Side, West Side poster
7.1

A vain businessman puts strains on his happy marriage to a rich, beautiful socialite by allowing himself to be seduced by a former girlfriend.

East Side, West Side

1949

Fifth Avenue Girl poster
7.0

A wealthy man hires a poor girl to play his mistress in order to get more attention from his neglectful family.

Fifth Avenue Girl

1939

Dust Be My Destiny poster
6.5

Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on the run as he thinks no-one would believe a nobody like him.

Dust Be My Destiny

1939

Rio poster
5.4

Diabolical French capitalist Paul Reynard is forced to leave Irene, his bride of one year, when he is arrested for the crimes of forgery and embezzlement and sentenced to a penal colony off the coast of South America.

Rio

1939

Once Upon a Honeymoon poster
6.3

A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.

Once Upon a Honeymoon

1942

The Light That Failed poster
5.8

A London artist struggles to complete one last painting before going blind.

The Light That Failed

1939

Huddle poster
7.0

Tony, the son of Italian immigrants, works in a smoky steel mill in Gary, Indiana. He wins a company scholarship which will enable him to attend Yale college. Over the four years of his college career he learns about football, love, and class prejudice.

Huddle

1932

Lillian Russell poster
6.6

Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.

Lillian Russell

1940

La Conga Nights poster
7.7

In this comedy, actor Hugh Herbert plays six different roles. Only one of the roles is a man. The story centers around a dizzy music lover, who has grown rich through real estate deals. Also figuring in the story are a cab driver/performer, and a down-on-her-luck, aspiring singer. They meet when she hails his cab as she skips out on her former boarding house because she cannot pay rent.

La Conga Nights

1940

This Love of Ours poster
6.0

At a convention, medical researcher Michel Touzac goes with colleagues to see stage caricaturist Targel, whose assistant Florence recognizes him...and attempts suicide. Saved by Touzac's new technique, Florence is revealed in a flashback as Michel's abandoned wife Karin, whom their daughter Susette thinks is dead. Can Susette cope if they now re-unite?

This Love of Ours

1945

Princess O'Rourke poster
6.5

A down-to-earth pilot charms a European princess on vacation in the United States.

Princess O'Rourke

1943

Specter of the Rose poster
4.8

Ballet dancer Sanine may have murdered his first wife. A detective thinks so, and he's not the only one.

Specter of the Rose

1946

Svengali poster
6.3

A music maestro uses hypnotism on a young model he meets in Paris to make her both his muse and wife.

Svengali

1931

Private Lives poster
6.5

Amanda and Elyot are one another's former spouse. Elyot is remarried to Sibyl and Amanda married Victor. Unexpectedly, both honeymooning couples arrive at a hotel on the same day and are put in rooms with adjoining terraces. Things go well until Amanda sees Elyot on the adjacent terrace.

Private Lives

1931

Stronger Than Desire poster
5.5

An attorney handling a murder case is unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.

Stronger Than Desire

1939

Rafter Romance poster
6.8

A working girl shares her apartment with an artist, taking the place in shifts.

Rafter Romance

1933