Beulah Bondi

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Actress Born Beulah Bondy on May 3, 1889 in Chicago, Ill.

Beulah Bondi was a character actress whose entire half-century career was spent playing elderly women.

Some of her most successful movies were "On Borrowed Time," "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," "Our Town," "Shepherd of the Hills," "One Foot in Heaven," "The Southerner," "It's a Wonderful Life" and "Track of the Cat."

— Ted Thackrey Jr. in the Los Angeles Times Jan. 12, 1981