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Jody Gilbert

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Jody Gilbert
Jody Gilbert in The Tuttles of Tahiti (1942)
Born(1916-03-18)March 18, 1916
Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.
DiedFebruary 3, 1979(1979-02-03) (aged 62)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Resting placeHollywood Forever Cemetery
OccupationActress
Years active1937–1978

Jody Gilbert (March 18, 1916 – February 3, 1979) was an American actress.

Biography

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Gilbert was born in Fort Worth, Texas. She studied voice and acting at Columbia University and she was a graduate of Pasadena Playhouse.[1]

One of her best-known early roles was in Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941), playing a sarcastic diner waitress who has a verbal duel with W.C. Fields. She appeared in numerous roles in the movies, radio and television, often in supporting roles as "sizeable" but confident women.[2]

Jody Gilbert died from complications arising from an automobile accident from the previous autumn.[1]

Filmography

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Year Title Role Notes
1939 Confession Actress uncredited
1939 Chasing Danger Teena
1939 New Frontier Rusty's Dance Partner uncredited
1939 No Place to Go Mrs. Hazelhurst uncredited
1939 Ninotchka Streetcar Conductress - Moscow Roommate uncredited
1939 Everything Happens at Night Hilda
1940 Little Old New York Hilda
1940 Seventeen Ethel Boke uncredited
1940 Star Dust Swedish Maid
1940 Ski Patrol Fanni Nerkuu
1940 Grand Ole Opry Women's Club President uncredited
1940 Brigham Young Stout Woman Who Can't Swim uncredited
1940 Flowing Gold Tillie / Mrs. Harris
1940 Hit Parade of 1941 uncredited
1941 Hudson's Bay Germaine
1941 Maisie Was a Lady Curly the Bearded Lady uncredited
1941 Pot o' Gold Helga Svenson uncredited
1941 Sergeant York Fat Woman uncredited
1941 Wild Geese Calling Swede uncredited
1941 Never Give a Sucker an Even Break The Waitress
1941 Shadow of the Thin Man Lana - Spider Webb's Girl uncredited
1941 Hellzapoppin' Louie's Girlfriend uncredited
1941 Remember the Day Mrs. Martha Avery
1942 Ride 'Em Cowboy Moonbeam uncredited
1942 The Tuttles of Tahiti Effie
1942 The Affairs of Martha Hadwig uncredited
1942 Iceland Fat Girl uncredited
1942 Wrecking Crew Hefty Girl uncredited
1942 The Black Swan Flossy Woman with Tommy uncredited
1942 Journey for Margaret Madame Bornholm uncredited
1942 Reunion in France Brunhilde - Stout Customer uncredited
1943 The Hard Way Anderson - Masseuse uncredited
1943 Hers to Hold Babe uncredited
1943 Wings Over the Pacific Native Woman with Black Eye
1943 Hi Diddle Diddle Agitated Wife uncredited
1943 Hi'ya, Sailor Plump Hostess uncredited
1943 The Unknown Guest Mrs. Green uncredited
1943 Princess O'Rourke Woman Truck Driver uncredited
1944 The Story of Dr. Wassell Head Nurse uncredited
1944 Ladies of Washington Nurse's Aide uncredited
1944 Marriage Is a Private Affair Girl Taxi Driver uncredited
1944 Lost in a Harem Native Laundress uncredited
1944 Music for Millions Burly Woman Cab Driver uncredited
1944 Together Again Fat Woman Fleeing Nightclub Raid uncredited
1944 Can't Help Singing Bath House Attendant uncredited
1945 Roughly Speaking Woman in Store uncredited
1945 Christmas in Connecticut Mrs. Gerseg uncredited
1945 That Night with You Masseuse uncredited
1945 Strange Confession Mrs. Todd uncredited
1945 Hold That Blonde Matron uncredited
1945 Life with Blondie Buxom Woman uncredited
1945 Texas Panhandle Millie the Blacksmith uncredited
1946 Partners in Time The Bad Cook uncredited
1946 Deadline for Murder Tiny
1946 Two Guys from Milwaukee Big Woman uncredited
1946 Singing on the Trail Casey uncredited
1946 Decoy Mrs. Noonan uncredited
1946 Cross My Heart Miss Stewart uncredited
1946 The Show-Off Woman scenes deleted
1947 Blondie's Holiday Cynthia Thompson (Class of '32)
1947 Fun on a Weekend Customer in Clothing Shop uncredited
1947 Second Chance Policewoman uncredited
1947 Roses Are Red Jill's Landlady uncredited
1947 Heading for Heaven Mable Foster uncredited
1948 Albuquerque Pearl Eager
1948 Are You with It? Mrs. Minerva Henkle
1948 Casbah American Woman uncredited
1948 Shaggy Tessie
1948 Texas, Brooklyn and Heaven Lady uncredited
1948 Million Dollar Weekend Big Woman at Airline Counter uncredited
1948 My Dear Secretary Hilda Sneebacher uncredited
1948 Bungalow 13 Mrs. Martha Barton
1948 The Paleface Woman in Bathhouse uncredited
1949 Knock on Any Door Gussie uncredited
1949 The Lost Tribe Zulta, the Barmaid uncredited
1949 The Lovable Cheat Madame Violette
1949 Hellfire Full Moon
1949 One Last Fling Amy Dearing
1949 Brimstone Fat Lady on Stage uncredited
1949 The Doctor and the Girl Mrs. Vlacsek uncredited
1950 The Blonde Bandit Bertha Fannon
1950 Blonde Dynamite Sarah Dumbrowski
1950 House by the River Flora Bantam
1950 The Yellow Cab Man Cecil's Mother uncredited
1950 My Friend Irma Goes West Fat Woman uncredited
1951 Gene Autry and The Mounties Squaw uncredited
1951 Slaughter Trail Fat Woman at Dance uncredited
1952 Something to Live For Woman in Telephone Booth uncredited
1952 Actor's and Sin Mrs. Egelhofer (segment "Woman of Sin")
1952 Jumping Jacks Mr. White's Secretary uncredited
1953 Houdini Fat Girl uncredited
1969 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Large Woman
1971 Willard Charlotte Stassen
1976 Lifeguard Woman

References

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  1. ^ a b "Funeral Services Set for Actress Jody Gilbert". Los Angeles Times. February 2, 1979. Retrieved December 19, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ "Jo Gilbert/Allmovie.com biography". Retrieved November 14, 2021.
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