Alison Skipworth is a too often overlooked character actress of the 1930's. Though her name may not be known by many of you, if you are a fan of old movies, you have most likely seen her. She was in Raffles (1930) with Roland Colman and Kay Francis, Dangerous (1935), The Girl From 5th Avenue (1935) and Satan Met a Lady (1936) with Bette Davis, Doubting Thomas (1935) with Will Rogers, Here is my Heart (1934) with Bing Crosby and the Josef Van Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich film, The Devil Is a Woman (1935). However she is best remembered for the movies in which she worked with W.C. Fields, If I Had a Million (1932), Tillie and Gus (1933), Alice in Wonderland (1933), and Six of a Kind (1934). She proved to be a great foil for the great comedian in the same way that Margaret Dumont was for The Marx Brothers. Though she was an older woman at the time she made these films and the parts she played were hardly glamorous ones, in her younger days on the stage, she was considered a great beauty when she had worked on the stage in her younger days.
The following is a 1933 article from The New Movie Magazine. If you have any trouble reading it click on the pages and use your touch screen to zoom in.
Here is the trailer for a delightful comedy movie she was in.
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