Clara Blandick Overview:

Actress, Clara Blandick, was born Clara Dickey on Jun 4, 1876 in on board an American ship, Hong Kong. Blandick died at the age of 85 on Apr 15, 1962 in Hollywood, CA and was laid to rest in Forest Lawn (Glendale) Cemetery in Glendale, CA.

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Auntie Em: I saw you tinkering with that contraption, Hickory. Now you and Hunk get back to that wagon.
Hickory: All right, Mrs. Gale. But someday, they're going to erect a statue to me in this town, and...
Auntie Em: Don't start posing for it now.


Abbie Krantz: Dead or alive, Kitty Conover, you oughtn't have a man in your room at this hour of the night.


Auntie Em: Now you go feed those hogs before they worry themselves into anemia!


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Played different roles in different screen versions of "Huckleberry Finn". In the 1931 version, she played Tom Sawyer's Aunt Polly, a carryover from the 1930 film of "Tom Sawyer", in which she played the same role. In 1939 she played the role of Miss Watson in the Mickey Rooney film "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn".

Her suicide note read: "I am now about to make the great adventure. I cannot endure this agonizing pain any longer. It is all over my body. Neither can I face the impending blindness. I pray the Lord my soul to take. Amen."

Best remembered for her portrayal of Dorothy's Auntie Em in The Wizard of Oz (1939).

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