Personal Info
Louise Beaver
Louise Beavers
Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Louise Beavers (March 8, 1902 – October 26, 1962) was an American film and television actress. Beavers appeared in dozens of films and two hit television shows from the 1920s until 1960, most often cast in the role of a maid, servant, or slave. She was a native of Cincinnati, Ohio, and a member of Sigma Gamma Rho sorority, one of the four African-American sororities.
Beavers was a breakthrough actress for black women and became known as a symbol of a "mammy" on the screen. A mammy archetype "is the portrayal within a narrative framework or other imagery …
Known For
Filmography
Movies
All the Fine Young Cannibals
as Rose
The Facts of Life
as Gussie
The Goddess
as The Cook
Tammy and the Bachelor
as Osia
The Hostess with the Mostes'
as Mattie Mae
Teenage Rebel
as Willamay
Good-bye, My Lady
as Bonnie Drew
You Can't Run Away from It
as Maid
Never Wave at a WAC
as Artamesa
Colorado Sundown
as Mattie, Jackie's Maid
