Lucile Watson: Lucile Watson. Actress: Watch on the Rhine. Unsmiling character player Lucile Watson was one of Hollywood's most indomitable mothers of the 1930s and 1940s...and you can take that both ways. The archetypal matriarch who enhanced scores of plush, soapy, Victorian-styled drama, her prickly pears could be insufferable indeed and heaven help anyone who gathered up the courage to take them on. A fiercely protective mother usually to everyone's detriment, her...
Known For: Watch on the Rhine (Fanny Farrelly), The Razor's Edge (Louisa Bradley), The Women (Mrs. Morehead), The Thin Man Goes Home (Mrs. Charles)