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Selena Royle

Selena Royle

Highest Rated: 100% The Heiress (1949)

Lowest Rated: 33% Robot Monster (1953)

Birthday: Nov 6, 1904

Birthplace: New York, New York, USA

Though not a household name, Selena Royle was a mainstay in Hollywood movies during the 1940s. The daughter of noted playwright Edward Milton Royle, she gravitated toward theater before appearing in films. Royle proved to be adept with maternal parts, an ability that she showcased in the 1944 war drama "The Fighting Sullivans," where she portrayed the mother of five brothers serving in World War II. Royle also turned up as matriarchs in "Courage of Lassie," starring a young Elizabeth Taylor, and "Joan of Arc," featuring Ingrid Bergman. During the early 1950s, Royle became a target of the House Un-American Activities Committee, leading to the end of her screen career.

Highest rated movies

100% Murder Is My Beat
100% The Heiress
100% The Harvey Girls
100% The Fighting Sullivans
90% Joan of Arc
88% He Ran All the Way
80% Branded
71% Summer Holiday
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Selena Royle

Selena Royle THE SULLIVANS, (aka THE FIGHTING SULLIVANS), from left, Thomas Mitchell, Selena Royle, 1944 ©20th Century Fox, TM & Copyright THE FIGHTING SULLIVANS, (aka THE SULLIVANS), Trudy Marshall, Selena Royle, Thomas Mitchell, Ward Bond, Anne Baxter, 1944, (c) 20th Century Fox, TM & Copyright THE GREEN YEARS, top row from left: Beverly Tyler, Wallace Ford, Norma Varden, Hume Cronyn, Tom Drake; middle: Jessica Tandy, Charles Coburn, Selena Royle; front: Norman Lloyd, 1946 THE SULLIVANS, (aka THE FIGHTING SULLIVANS), from left, front, Thomas Mitchell, Selena Royle, Trudy Marshall; back, John Alvin, George Offerman, Jr., Edward Ryan, John Campbell, James Cardwell, 1944 ©20th Century Fox, TM & Copyright SUMMER HOLIDAY, Jackie 'Butch' Jenkins, Selena Royle, Mickey Rooney, Walter Huston, Agnes Moorehead, Frank Morgan, Anne Francis, 1948 A DATE WITH JUDY, Selena Royle, Wallace Beery, Carmen Miranda, 1948 THE GREEN YEARS, Hume Cronyn, Selena Royle, Gladys Cooper, Dean Stockwell, 1946 THE SULLIVANS, (aka THE FIGHTING SULLIVANS), Selena Royle, Thomas Mitchell, 1944, (c) 20th Century Fox, TM & Copyright THE ROMANCE OF ROSY RIDGE, Thomas Mitchell, Selena Royle, Janet Leigh, Dean Stockwell, Van Johnson, 1947 View more photos

Filmography

Movies

Credit
100% 43% Murder Is My Beat Beatrice Abbott (Character) - 1955
33% 37% Robot Monster Mother (Character) - 1953
88% 69% He Ran All the Way Mrs. Dobbs (Character) - 1951
No Score Yet 62% Come Fill the Cup Mrs. Dolly Copeland (Character) - 1951
80% 62% Branded Mrs. Lavery (Character) - 1950
67% 33% The Big Hangover Kate Mahoney (Character) - 1950
No Score Yet No Score Yet You're My Everything Mrs. Adams (Character) - 1949
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bad Boy Judge Florence Prentiss (Character) - 1949
100% 93% The Heiress Elizabeth Almond (Character) - 1949
No Score Yet 41% My Dream Is Yours Freda Hofer (Character) - 1949
90% 54% Joan of Arc Isabelle d'Arc (Character) - 1948
No Score Yet No Score Yet You Were Meant for Me Mrs. Cora Mayhew (Character) - 1948
57% 51% A Date With Judy Mrs. Foster (Character) - 1948
71% 44% Summer Holiday Mrs. Essie Miller (Character) - 1948
No Score Yet 50% The Romance of Rosy Ridge Sairy MacBean (Character) - 1947
No Score Yet 57% Cass Timberlane Louise Wargate (Character) - 1947
No Score Yet 51% Courage of Lassie Mrs. Merrick (Character) - 1946
100% 83% The Harvey Girls Miss Bliss (Character) - 1946
No Score Yet No Score Yet No Leave, No Love Mrs. Hanlon (Character) - 1946
No Score Yet No Score Yet Gallant Journey Mrs. Zachary Montgomery (Character) - 1946
No Score Yet 53% The Green Years Mama Leckie (Character) - 1946
No Score Yet No Score Yet This Man's Navy Maude Weaver (Character) - 1945
No Score Yet 72% Mrs. Parkington Mattie Trounson (Character) - 1944
100% 87% The Fighting Sullivans Mrs. Alleta Sullivan (Character) - 1944
No Score Yet No Score Yet Main Street After Dark "Ma" Abby Dibson (Character) - 1944