Personal Info
Birth date
1872-11-06 (152 Years)
Day of death
1945-03-04
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Also known as
Lucille Mitchum
Люсиль Ла Верн
Lucille La Varney
Lucile LaVerne
Lucille LaVerne
Lucille Lavarney
Lucille Laverne
Lucille La Verne Mitchum
Lucille La Verne
Biography
Lucille La Verne (November 7, 1872 – March 4, 1945) was an American actress known for her appearances in silent, scolding, obnoxious, vituperative, sarcastic, cunning, and vengeful roles in early sound films, as well as for her triumphs on the American stage. She is most widely remembered as the voices of the Old Witch in the 1932 Silly Symphony short, Babes in the Woods, and the first Disney villain, the Evil Queen, Snow White's wicked stepmother from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), Walt Disney's first full-length animated feature film as well as her final film role. Lucille La Verne died at the age of 72 in Culver City, California on March 4, 1945, after suffering from cancer. She was interred at Inglewood Park Cemetery. La Verne's grave was unmarked for nearly 75 years before fans took up a collection to ensure that she had a stone. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lucille La Verne, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
7.123
Overview:
A beautiful girl, Snow White, takes refuge in the forest in the house of seven dwarfs to hide from her stepmother, the wicked Queen. The Queen is jealous because she wants to be known as "the fairest in the land," and Snow White's beauty surpasses her own.Abraham Lincoln
5.447
Overview:
A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln's life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining chapters: his romance with Ann Rutledge; his early years as a country lawyer; his marriage to Mary Todd; his debates with Stephen A. Douglas; the election of 1860; his presidency during the Civil War; and his assassination in Ford’s Theater in 1865.Orphans of the Storm
6.83
Overview:
France, on the eve of the French Revolution. Henriette and Louise have been raised together as sisters. When the plague that takes their parents' lives causes Louise's blindness, they decide to travel to Paris in search of a cure, but they separate when a lustful aristocrat crosses their path.A Tale of Two Cities
6.812
Overview:
The exciting story of Dr. Manette, who escapes the horrors of the infamous Bastille prison in Paris. The action switches between London and Paris on the eve of the revolution where we witness 'the best of times and the worst of times' - love, hope, the uncaring French Aristocrats and the terror of a revolutionary citizen's army intent on exacting revenge.Little Caesar
6.873
Overview:
A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?Babes in the Woods
5.9
Overview:
Two Dutch children stumble on a clearing in the woods where gnomes are going about their business. The gnomes are friendly to the children. A witch comes and takes them away on her broom to her gingerbread house, where she turns nasty on them, turning the boy into a spider, her yowling cat to stone, and tries to turn the girl into a rat when a gnome's arrow stops her. While the gnomes are fighting the witch, Hansel and Gretl free the other children who have been imprisoned and transformed by the witch.Zaza
6.1
Overview:
Zaza is an actress and the favorite at an open-air theater in a small French town. When diplomat Bernard Dufresne comes to the village, he stays away for fear he will fall for her. But during one performance, while Zaza is singing on a swing, her rival cuts the rope and she falls. Zaza is badly injured and she makes Dufresne's acquaintance. A romance quickly springs up and he installs her in a villa. Their happiness is marred, however, when his wife appears.Father Noah's Ark
6
Overview:
Noah, his family (wife, 3 sons, their wives), and various animals all help build the ark. The rains come, and the skunks barely miss the boat (not that anyone was particularly looking for them), but they manage to swim to it. After the rain and many lamentations by the humans, the sun returns, to the great joy of all. The ground appears, and the animals (and many new babies) disembark.Union Depot
6.1
Overview:
Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metropolitan train station, are Chick and his friend Scrap Iron, both newly released from prison after serving time for vagrancy. Hungry and desperate for a break, Chick fortuitously comes across across a valise abandoned by a drunken traveler. In it he finds a shaving kit and a suit of clothes with a bankroll, which help transform the affable tramp into a dashing gent. After buying himself a meal, Chick seeks some female companionship among the many hustlers who walk the station. He propositions Ruth Collins, a stranded, out-of-work showgirl and takes her to the station's hotel.Disney's Halloween Treat
5.9
Overview:
Contains memorable scenes from "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," "Fantasia," "Lady and the Tramp," "Peter Pan," "One Hundred and One Dalmatians," and "The Sword in the Stone."An American Tragedy
6.1
Overview:
A social climber charms a debutante, seduces a factory worker and commits murder.Pilgrimage
6.853
Overview:
A mother from Arkansas is very possessive of her grown son. To prevent him from getting married she has him drafted into WW I.The Great Meadow
5
Overview:
Pioneers and a family man leave Virginia for Kentucky during the Revolutionary War.Disney's Greatest Villains
NYR
Overview:
The Slave in the Magic Mirror is the host of this show, designed to explain that all heroes need villains to balance things out. Without villains, there would be no heroes. Villains from Disney films abound here.24 Hours
5.5
Overview:
A nightclub singer is carrying on an affair with a married man. When she is found murdered, her lover is suspected of the crime.While Paris Sleeps
5.8
Overview:
To save his daughter Manon from falling into the hands of a vicious gang of pimps, convict Jacques Costard escapes from jail. Jacques' problems are twofold: he must keep Manon from being abducted into a life of prostitution, and he must also hide his true identity from the girl, who has been raised to believe that Jacques died a hero in WWI.Sun-Up
NYR
Overview:
When she hears her boy has been killed in WWI a vengeful Kentucky hills mother shelters a deserter as a protest.When the boy returns she asks him to kill the deserter who she learns is the son of a murderous revenue agent.School for Girls
6
Overview:
After being convicted of stealing some jewels, Annette Eldrige is sent to a reformatory administered by a sadistic and corrupt female warder. However, one of the board of trustees takes an interest in the new arrival and begins to investigate the management of the institution.The White Rose
7.1
Overview:
A wealthy young Southern aristocrat, Joseph, graduates from a seminary and, before he takes charge of his assigned parish, decides to go out and see what "the real world" is all about. He winds up in New Orleans and finds himself attracted to a poor, unsophisticated orphan girl, Bessie. One thing leads to another, and before long Bessie finds that she is pregnant with Joseph's child.Sinners' Holiday
5.8
Overview:
Ma Delano runs a penny arcade in Coney Island, living upstairs with her sons and daughter. Story involves rum-running, accidental murder and a frame-up.Wild Horse Mesa
NYR
Overview:
Chane Weymer, an Arizona rancher, goes after a gang that is trapping wild horses by the use of barbed-wire enclosures.Hearts of Humanity
3.5
Overview:
Genial Irish NYC policeman Tom O'Hara is looking forward to the arrival of his wife and their young son, Shandy from Ireland. Several days before the ship is to dock, O'Hara gets a radiogram informing him that his wife has died at sea. That night a burglar breaks into the Antigue & Second Hand Shop ran by Sol Bloom, directly below O'Hara's flat. The burglar shoots O'Hara, who has rushed to his friend's aid, and, with his last breath he asks Sol to take care of Shandy. When Shandy arrives, Sol immediately makes him a member of the family, which also consists of a very mischievous motherless boy named Joey Bloom, whose pursuits consist of stealing oranges from fruit-dealer Tony, and playing hookey from school. Tom Varney, the young beat cop, is in love with Ruth Sneider, whose mother runs a Cleaning and Dyeling establishment. Ruth, however, is momentarily dazed with worthless Dave Haller.Kentucky Kernels
6.1
Overview:
The Great Elmer and Company, two out-of-work magicians, help lovelorn Jerry Bronson adopt Spanky Milford, to distract him. When Bronson makes up and elopes, the pair are stuck with the little boy. But Spanky inherits a Kentucky fortune, so they head south to Banesville, where the Milfords and Wakefields are conducting a bitter feud.The Thousand-Dollar Husband
NYR
Overview:
Olga Nelson, a Swedish maidservant, working at a boarding house that caters to college students, is particularly fond of one of them, wealthy Tom Gordon. When Tom receives word that his father has lost his fortune and he must quit school, he loses the remainder of his money in a poker game. Meanwhile, Olga inherits her Uncle Sven's fortune when he dies, but the will stipulates that she will receive the money only if she marries before her next birthday. She marries Gordon to get him out of debt but he spurns her affections because he thinks that she is socially inferior. They soon separate, and she goes out West where she falls into the clutches of nefarious fortune hunters who say that they will make a lady of her. Gordon returns to school and later, when she has become a "lady," they meet again. Through a misunderstanding they quarrel, but eventually Gordon realizes that she is being used by criminals and he saves her, after which they start their marriage over.Alias the Doctor
5.7
Overview:
Karl is the workaholic adopted son while Stephan is the lazy one. They both go to Munich to study medicine and Karl is at the top of the class while Stephan is barely passing. When Stephan's actions causes the death of Anna, Karl is the one who takes the wrap and three years in prison. When he gets out, he finds Stephan is dead and a sick child needs an operation and he does brilliant surgery. This gets him noticed and his mother tells them that he is Stephan Brenner, not Karl Brenner. She tells Karl that he must cure sickness in the world. But, being that he is Stephan, he can no longer marry Lottie, as she is now his sister.The Mighty Barnum
0.5
Overview:
20th Century Fox's highly fabricated film biography of circus showman P. T. Barnum stars Wallace Beery (as Barnum), Virginia Bruce (as Jenny Lind), Janet Beecher and Adolphe Menjou. Released in 1934.The Unholy Garden
6
Overview:
At a hotel in the middle of the Sahara, an old man and his daughter try to keep the location of a hidden treasure from a collection of thieves and criminals staying at the hotel who are determined to get it. A suave gentleman thief arrives at the hotel one day with his own plan to get the loot, but complications ensue when he begins to fall for the daughter.Acting
1982Disney's Halloween Treat as Queen / Witch (voice) (archive footage)
1977Disney's Greatest Villains as Queen / Witch (voice) (archive footage)
1938Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs as Queen / Witch (voice) (uncredited)
1936The Blow Out as The Bomber (voice) (uncredited)
1935A Tale of Two Cities as The Vengeance
1934The Mighty Barnum as Joice Heth
1934Kentucky Kernels as Aunt Hannah Milford
1934School for Girls as Miss Keeble
1934Beloved as Mrs. Briggs
1933The Last Trail as Mrs. Wilson
1933Pilgrimage as Mrs. Kelly Hatfield
1933Father Noah's Ark as Noah's wife (voice)
1932Wild Horse Mesa as Ma 'The General' Melberne
1932A Strange Adventure as Miss Sheen
1932Babes in the Woods as Witch (voice) (uncredited)
1932Breach of Promise as Mrs. Flynn
1932Hearts of Humanity as Mrs. Sneider
1932While Paris Sleeps as Mme. Golden Bonnet
1932Alias the Doctor as Martha Brenner, Karl's foster mother (as Lucille LaVerne)
1932Union Depot as Lady with Pipe (uncredited)
1931The Unholy Garden as Lucie Villars
193124 Hours as Mrs. Dacklehorst
1931An American Tragedy as Mrs. Asa Griffiths
1931Little Caesar as Ma Magdalena (uncredited)
1931The Great Meadow as Elvira Jarvis
1930Abraham Lincoln as Mid-Wife
1930Sinners' Holiday as Mrs. Delano
1930Du Barry, Woman of Passion as Bit role (voice)
1928The Last Moment as Innkeeper
1925Sun-Up as Mother
1924His Darker Self as Aunt Lucy
1923Zaza as Aunt Rosa
1923The White Rose as Auntie Easter
1921Orphans of the Storm as Mother Frochard
1919The Praise Agent as Mrs. Eubanks
1917Polly of the Circus as Mandy
1916The Thousand-Dollar Husband as Mme. Batavia