Theresa Harris actress
- All known tv series 4
- Total known movies 73
Theresa Harris (December 31, 1906 [some sources indicate 1909] – October 8, 1985) was an American film and television actress, singer and dancer.In 1929 Harris traveled to Hollywood, where she embarked on an acting career. She made her film debut in Thunderbolt, singing the song Daddy Wont You Please Come Home. As she entered the 1930s she found herself playing maids to fictitious Southern belles, socialites and female molls. These parts were sometimes uncredited. She also floated around studios doing bit parts, usually at Warner Bros. or MGM. Aside from maids, she specialized in playing blues singers, waitresses, tribal women, prostitutes, and hatcheck girls.Harris had a featured role as a friend of Jean Harlow in MGMs Hold Your Man (1932). In 1933 she appeared as Chico in the Warner Bros. pre-Code production of Baby Face, starring Barbara Stanwyck. That same year Harris starred in a substantial role opposite Ginger Rogers in Professional Sweetheart. As Rogers characters maid, Harris character subs for Rogers character as a singer on the radio. Despite the fact that Harris character was a major point for the storys plot development, she was uncredited for the role.Throughout the 1930s, Harris played many uncredited parts in films such as Horse Feathers (1932), Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933), Mary Stevens, M.D. (1933) and Morning Glory (1933). She also played Bette Daviss maid Zette in the film Jezebel (1938). In 1937 she appeared in the race film Bargain With Bullets opposite Ralph Cooper for Million Dollar Productions. While doing promotion for the film, Harris spoke about her frustration over the difficulty African American actors faced in the film industry, stating, I never had the chance to rise about the role of maid in Hollywood movies. My color was against me anyway you looked at it. The fact that I was not hot stamped me either as uppity or relegated me to the eternal role of stooge or servant....My ambition is to be an actress. Hollywood had no parts for me.Harris continued to lobby for better parts but found few opportunities within Hollywood. In the 1939 movie Tell No Tales she was credited for her part as Ruby, the wife of a murdered man. Harris played an emotional scene with Melvin Douglas at the funeral. She appears in a small but vivid role as Kathie Moffats ex-maid Eunice Leonard in Jacques Tourneur 1947 Out of the Past.In addition to films, Harris performed in many radio programs. She was often paired with Eddie Rochester Anderson, who portrayed her on-screen boyfriend. She also appeared in several prominent roles for RKO Pictures as she was a favorite of RKO producer Val Lewton who routinely cast African American actors in non-stereotypical roles. In 1942 Lewton cast Harris as a sarcastic waitress in Cat People, followed by roles in I Walked with a Zombie (1943), Phantom Lady (1944), and Strange Illusion (1945).During the 1950s Harris appeared several times on television shows. She made her last film appearance in an uncredited role in The Gift of Love in 1958.Harris later married a doctor and retired from acting, living comfortably after having carefully invested the money she made during her career in the movies.On October 8, 1985, Harris (then known as Theresa Robinson) died in Inglewood, California.From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Zette
Movie 1938
Cleo (uncredited)
Movie 1947
Alma
Movie 1943
Chico
Movie 1933
Esther
Movie 1949
Nancy
Movie 1948
Clementine
Movie 1941
Matilda the Maid (uncredited)
Movie 1949
Julia, the maid
Movie 1947
Grace Foster
Movie 1937
Cleo
Movie 1941
Hattie
Movie 1941
Josephine
Movie 1940
Ladies' Room Attendant (uncredited)
Movie 1932
Louise (Maid)
Movie 1946
Native Mother (uncredited)
Movie 1931
Maid
Movie 1949
Josephine
Movie 1940
Andrews' Maid Alice (uncredited)
Movie 1933
Marie
Movie 1934
'Pick'
Movie 1938
Terese
Movie 1951
Mother Listening to Hurdy-gurdy (uncredited)
Movie 1941
Jessica (uncredited)
Movie 1933
Athlete
Movie 1937
Stella, Ina's Maid
Movie 1951
Ruby
Movie 1939
Ladies Room Maid at Party
Movie 1934
Woman in Drugstore (uncredited)
Movie 1949
Olive (uncredited)
Movie 1939
Maid (uncredited)
Movie 1937
Joan's Maid
Movie 1933
Dora - Sam's Wife (uncredited)
Movie 1958
Nancy the Maid
Movie 1957
Mamie (uncredited)
Movie 1956
Maid
Movie 1945
Singer
Movie 1929
Camp Follower (uncredited)
Movie 1930
Laura (uncredited)
Movie 1932
Angel (uncredited)
Movie 1936
Emily (uncredited)
Movie 1932
Eunice Leonard (uncredited)
Movie 1947
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Movie 1947
Maid (uncredited)
Movie 1940
Nurse Theresa (uncredited)
Movie 1953
Herself
Movie 1946
Beulah - Powder Room Attendant
Movie 1940
Sacrificed Girl (uncredited)
Movie 1934
Wife
Movie 1942
Bessie Mae
Movie 1942
Maid at Dude Ranch
Movie 1931
Ladies' Room Attendant (uncredited)
Movie 1933
Woman in "Pettin' in the Park" Number (uncredited)
Movie 1933
Minnie (uncredited)
Movie 1942
Vera (uncredited)
Movie 1933
Hat Check Girl
Movie 1942
Maid
Movie 1937
Lily Mae Crippen (uncredited)
Movie 1933
Daisy (uncredited)
Movie 1948
Opal
Movie 1949
Evelyn (uncredited)
Movie 1934
Amanda
Movie 1932
Lily - the Maid
Movie 1933
Dressing Room Maid
Movie 1935
High Yaller girl
Movie 1939
Backstage Maid
Movie 1953
Luana's Maid
Movie 1935
Clare (uncredited)
Movie 1954
Lili (uncredited)
Movie 1933
Black Woman (uncredited)
Movie 1932
Powder Room Attendant (uncredited)
Movie 1932
Movie 1951
Janet's Maid (Uncredited)
Movie 1933
Maid
Tv 1955
Lulu
Tv 1953
Irene
Tv 1957
Young Woman
Tv 1950