Known for Acting
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Josephine Hutchinson (October 12, 1903 - June 4, 1998) was an American actress. Hutchinson was born in Seattle, Washington. Her mother, Leona Roberts, was an actress best known for her role as Mrs. Meade in Gone with the Wind. Under contract with Warner Bros., Hutchinson went to Hollywood in 1934, debuting in Happiness Ahead. She was featured on the cover of Film Weekly on August 23, 1935 and appeared in The Story of Louis Pasteur in 1936. At Universal, she played Elsa von Frankenstein in one of her more memorable roles alongside actor Basil Rathbone and Boris Karloff in Son of Frankenstein (1939). She later played Mrs. Townsend in North by Northwest (1959) and Love Is Better Than Ever, starring Elizabeth Taylor. Hutchinson made a number of Television appearances, including episodes of Perry Mason, The Rifleman and Little House on the Prairie. She died, aged 94, on June 4, 1998 at the Florence Nightingale Nursing Home in Manhattan. Her ashes were scattered near her niece’s home at Springfield, Oregon.
Born
October 12, 1903
Died
June 4, 1998 (age 94)
Birthplace
Seattle, Washington, USA
Filmography
35 films, 27 shows


The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
1971 · 1h 39m
country: United States
It's Christmas Eve, early 1930s on Walton's Mountain. As the family prepares for the holiday, they anxiously await Pa's return home from his job in the city some 50 miles away. He is late, and Ma and the grandparents hear on the radio a report of a bus accident that worries them. Oldest son John-Boy must step up to help grandfather cut down a Christmas tree, and upon learning the concern about Daddy sets out to find him.
Travis Logan, D.A.
Travis Logan, D.A.
1971 · 1h 40m
country: United States
Sand devises a scheme to murder his former business partner and maintains his innocence throughout the trial, as he is prosecuted by District Attorney Travis Logan.


Rabbit, Run
1970 · 1h 30m
country: United States
Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom comes home one day from his dead-end job to find his pregnant wife Janice asleep, splayed in front of the TV, highball glass in hand. After a moment's contemplation, he decides to leave. Taking his coat and car keys, he's off and running on a rambling, aimless journey.


Shadow Over Elveron
1968 · 1h 46m
country: United States
A corrupt sheriff knows the secrets of everyone in town and uses that information to go unchallenged. But after the arrest of an innocent teenager, the new doctor cannot keep quiet and tries to get the community to stand up for what is right.


Nevada Smith
1966 · 2h 8m
country: United States
Nevada Smith is the alias of Max Sand, the son of an Indian mother and American father. When they are killed by three men over gold, Nevada sets out to avenge them. The young man is taken in by a gun merchant who shows him how to shoot, on time and correctly.


Baby the Rain Must Fall
1965 · 1h 40m
country: United States
Henry Thomas tries to overcome the horrors of his childhood and start a new life with his wife and kid. However, his abusive step-mother and his dependence on alcohol threaten to ruin his future.


The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1960 · 1h 47m
country: United States
From chicken thief to cabin boy, riverboat pilot to circus performer, Huck Finn outsmarts everyone on his way down the muddy Mississippi.


Walk Like a Dragon
1960 · 1h 35m
country: United States
California, 1870s. The cowboy Lincoln 'Linc' Bartlett finds out there's a slave auction of Chinese women in San Francisco and he intervenes and purchases the Chinese Kim Sung from the auction with the intent of setting her free. But it doesn't occur to Linc that setting her free isn't enough. Where is she going to go? Kim doesn't speak English and she's just going to be exploited by somebody else. Linc takes Kim home to serve as a housekeeper. Ma Bartlett Linc's mother, is not happy that a Chinese girl is living in her home, and even less happy when Kim and her son fall in love. Their affair also arouses the jealousy of Cheng Lu, a Chinese immigrant.


North by Northwest
1959 · 2h 17m
country: United States
Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.


Step Down to Terror
1958 · 1h 16m
country: United States
Pursued by detectives, Johnny Walters leaves the city to visit his family in a small California town. Among the household: his dead brother's luscious widow Helen, who soon is attracted to him. Ominous events and conflicting evidence leave Helen suspicious, but uncertain about her brother-in-law as tension builds...


Sing Boy Sing
1958 · 1h 30m
country: United States
The teenage son of a rural preacher becomes a huge Elvis-like rock 'n' roll star, but he has trouble adjusting to fame and success.


Gun for a Coward
1956 · 1h 28m
country: United States
A young cowboy, whose dedication to the principles of peace and reason has earned him a reputation for cowardice, overcomes his psychological aversion to violence after his elder brother unjustly censures him for not joining in a foolhardy gunfight in which their youngest brother is killed.


Miracle in the Rain
1956 · 1h 48m
country: United States
Wartime romance about a lonely man and woman who meet one rainy afternoon in New York.


Many Rivers to Cross
1955 · 1h 35m
country: United States
Robert Taylor and Eleanor Parker star as a Kentucky backwoodsman and the woman who will NOT let anything interfere with her plans to marry him in this humorous romantic adventure through the American Frontier of 1798.


Ruby Gentry
1952 · 1h 22m
country: United States
A sexy but poor young girl marries a rich man she doesn't love, but carries a torch for another man.


Love Is Better Than Ever
1952 · 1h 21m
country: United States
A dance instructor falls in love with a smart theatre agent; while he returns her affections, it's just not enough to give up his exciting bachelor life.


Adventure in Baltimore
1949 · 1h 29m
country: United States
Dinah Sheldon is a student at an exclusive girl's school who starts campaigning for women's rights. Her minister father and her boyfriend Tom Wade do not approve.


The Tender Years
1948 · 1h 21m
country: United States
A progressive pastor takes on thoughtless brutality (and constitutional scruples against search and seizure) in order to promote animal cruelty protection laws.


Cass Timberlane
1947 · 1h 59m
country: United States
Judge Cass Timberlane marries a girl from the wrong side of the tracks, Virginia Marshland. A baby is stillborn and she turns more and more to attorney friend of of Cass' Brad Criley. While quarreling the Judge tells Virginia to stay with Brad, but when she becomes sick he brings her home.


Somewhere in the Night
1946 · 1h 50m
country: United States
George Taylor returns from WWII with amnesia. Back home in Los Angeles, while trying to track down his old identity, he stumbles onto a three year old murder case and a hunt for a missing $2 million.


The Voice That Thrilled the World
1943 · 18m
country: United States
This short traces the history of sound in the movies, beginning with French scientist Leon Scott's experiments in 1857. Featured are snippets from early sound pictures.


Her First Beau
1941 · 1h 17m
country: United States
15-year-old Penelope (Penny) Wood has two great interests - Chuck Harris and the hope that some day she might become a famous,great writer. Chuck also has two interests - his home-made glider and the hope that some day he will go to Tech college. His indifference to Penny is her chief source of annoyance. Mervyn Roberts, Penny's uncle who is only five years older than she is, arrives home with a guest, Roger Van Vleck, and Penny falls for Roger's sophistication. Chuck, resentful, continues to work on his glider over his father's objections. His father wants it destroyed but Elmer Tuttle, their hired man, hides it.


Tom Brown's School Days
1940 · 1h 26m
country: United States
In 1830s England, Tom Brown attends a rugby boys' school, where his moral and personal growth is formed through friendship, bullying–particularly from the cruel Flashman–and the influence of headmaster Dr Thomas Arnold.


My Son, My Son!
1940 · 1h 56m
country: United States
A self-made success is determined to give his son the lavish upbringing he himself was denied. Not surprisingly, the son grows up to be spoiled rotten, causing grief and pain to everyone who loves him.


Son of Frankenstein
1939 · 1h 39m
country: United States
One of the sons of late Dr. Henry Frankenstein finds his father's ghoulish creation in a coma and revives him, only to find out the monster is controlled by Ygor who is bent on revenge.


The Crime of Doctor Hallet
1938 · 1h 8m
country: United States
Doctor in jungle works on cure for fever.


The Women Men Marry
1937 · 1h 1m
country: United States
A newsman with a no-good wife exposes a religious racket with a newswoman who loves him.


Mountain Justice
1937 · 1h 23m
country: United States
Stalwart Appalachian woman finds romance as she struggles to better herself and her people amid prejudice and familial abuse.


I Married a Doctor
1936 · 1h 23m
country: Unknown
City girl marries country doctor, meets prejudice and exclusion when she tries to befriend the townspeople.


The Story of Louis Pasteur
1936 · 1h 26m
country: United States
A true story about Louis Pasteur, who revolutionized medicine by proving that much disease is caused by microbes, that sanitation is paramount and that at least some diseases can be cured by vaccinations.


The Melody Lingers on
1935 · 1h 5m
country: Unknown
A piano virtuoso has a child out of wedlock; the father, her fiancé, is killed trying to save her life. Their son is brought up by foster parents and becomes a musician.


Oil for the Lamps of China
1935 · 1h 37m
country: United States
An American oil company representative risks sacrificing his marriage for his career in the rural lands of China.


The Right to Live
1935 · 1h 15m
country: United States
A man with a broken back dies after his wife has an affair with his brother.


Happiness Ahead
1934 · 1h 26m
country: United States
Society heiress Joan Bradford rebels against her mother's choice of a future husband by masquerading as a working class girl and dating a window washer.


A Little Princess
1917 · 1h 2m
country: United States
Little Sara Crewe is placed in a boarding school by her father when he goes off to war, but he does not understand that the headmistress is a cruel, spiteful woman who makes life miserable for Sara.