Kate Bruce: Kate Bruce. Actress: Gretchen the Greenhorn. A D.W. Griffith favorite matriarchal figure often playing mother characters. Kate Bruce appeared 292 times on the screen from 1908 to 1930, in movies including Intolerance (1916), The Idol Dancer (1920), Way Down East (1920), The Eternal Mother (1912), and Orphans of the Storm (1921). She was a close friend of actresses Lillian Gish and Dorothy Gish, who supported Bruce financially for much of...
Known For: Gretchen the Greenhorn (Widow Garrity), The White Rose (John's Aunt), In a Hempen Bag (The Nursemaid), The Broken Locket (Ruth's Mother)