Hildegarde Withers, the Glossary
Hildegarde Withers is a fictional character, an amateur crime-solver, who has appeared in several novels, short stories and films.[1]
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28 relations: Agatha Christie, Agnes Moorehead, American Broadcasting Company, Craig Rice (writer), Edna May Oliver, Eve Arden, Forty Naughty Girls, Helen Broderick, Inspector, James Gregory (actor), James Whitmore, Julie Newmar, Marjorie Main, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Miss Marple, Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone, Murder on a Bridle Path, Murder on a Honeymoon, Murder on the Blackboard, New York City Police Department, Paul Kelly (actor), RKO Pictures, Steven Saylor, Stuart Palmer (author), Television film, The Penguin Pool Murder, The Plot Thickens (film), ZaSu Pitts.
- Book series introduced in 1931
- Fictional characters from Boston
- Film series introduced in 1932
- Literary characters introduced in 1931
Agatha Christie
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.
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Agnes Moorehead
Agnes Robertson Moorehead (December 6, 1900April 30, 1974) was an American actress.
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American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network that serves as the flagship property of the Disney Entertainment division of the Walt Disney Company.
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Craig Rice (writer)
Craig Rice (born Georgiana Ann Randolph Craig; June 5, 1908 – August 28, 1957) was an American writer of mystery novels and short stories, described by book critic Bill Ruehlmann as "the Dorothy Parker of detective fiction, she wrote the binge and lived the hangover.".
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Edna May Oliver
Edna May Oliver (born Edna May Nutter, November 9, 1883 – November 9, 1942) was an American stage and film actress.
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Eve Arden
Eve Arden (born Eunice Mary Quedens, April 30, 1908 – November 12, 1990) was an American film, radio, stage and television actress.
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Forty Naughty Girls
Forty Naughty Girls is a 1937 American comedy mystery film directed by Edward F. Cline and written by John Grey.
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Helen Broderick
Helen Broderick (August 11, 1891 – September 25, 1959) was an American actress known for her comic roles, especially as a wisecracking sidekick.
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Inspector
Inspector, also police inspector or inspector of police, is a police rank.
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James Gregory (actor)
James Gregory (December 23, 1911 – September 16, 2002) was an American character actor known for his deep, gravelly voice, and playing brash roles such as Schaffer in Al Capone (1959), the McCarthy-like Sen.
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James Whitmore
James Whitmore (October 1, 1921 – February 6, 2009) was an American actor.
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Julie Newmar
Julie Newmar (born Julia Chalene Newmeyer, August 16, 1933) is an American actress, dancer, and singer known for a variety of stage, screen, and television roles.
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Marjorie Main
Mary Tomlinson (February 24, 1890 – April 10, 1975), professionally known as Marjorie Main, was an American character actress and singer of the Classical Hollywood period, best known as a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player in the 1940s and 1950s, and for her role as Ma Kettle in 10 Ma and Pa Kettle movies.
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, commonly shortened to MGM), is an American media company specializing in film and television production and distribution based in Beverly Hills, California.
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Miss Marple
Miss Jane Marple is a fictional character in Agatha Christie's crime novels and short stories. Hildegarde Withers and Miss Marple are Female characters in literature and fictional amateur detectives.
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Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone
Mrs.
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Murder on a Bridle Path
Murder on a Bridle Path is a 1936 American mystery film directed by William Hamilton and Edward Killy and starring James Gleason, Helen Broderick and Louise Latimer.
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Murder on a Honeymoon
Murder on a Honeymoon is a 1935 American mystery film starring Edna May Oliver and James Gleason.
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Murder on the Blackboard
Murder on the Blackboard is a 1934 American pre-Code mystery/comedy film starring Edna May Oliver as schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers and James Gleason as Police Inspector Oscar Piper.
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New York City Police Department
The New York City Police Department (NYPD), officially the City of New York Police Department, is the primary law enforcement agency within New York City.
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Paul Kelly (actor)
Paul Michael Kelly (August 9, 1899 – November 6, 1956) was an American stage, film, and television actor.
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RKO Pictures
RKO Radio Pictures Inc., commonly known as RKO Pictures or simply RKO, was an American film production and distribution company, one of the "Big Five" film studios of Hollywood's Golden Age.
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Steven Saylor
Steven Saylor (born March 23, 1956) is an American author of historical novels.
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Stuart Palmer (born June 21, 1905 and died February 4, 1968) was a mystery novelist and screenwriter.
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Television film
A television film, alternatively known as a television movie, made-for-TV film/movie, telefilm, telemovie or TV film/movie, is a feature-length film that is produced and originally distributed by or to a television network, in contrast to theatrical films made for initial showing in movie theaters, and direct-to-video films made for initial release on home video formats.
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The Penguin Pool Murder
The Penguin Pool Murder is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy/mystery film starring Edna May Oliver as Hildegarde Withers, a witness in a murder case at the New York Aquarium, with James Gleason as the police inspector in charge of the case, who investigates with her unwanted help, and Robert Armstrong as an attorney representing Mae Clarke, the wife of the victim.
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The Plot Thickens (film)
The Plot Thickens is a 1936 American mystery film directed by Ben Holmes starring James Gleason, ZaSu Pitts and Louise Latimer.
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ZaSu Pitts
ZaSu Pitts (January 3, 1894 – June 7, 1963) was an American actress who, in a career spanning nearly five decades, starred in many silent film dramas, such as Erich von Stroheim's 1924 epic Greed, and comedies, before transitioning successfully to mostly comedy roles with the advent of sound films.
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See also
Book series introduced in 1931
- Hildegarde Withers
- Jules Maigret
- List of The Shadow stories
Fictional characters from Boston
- Adrienne Frost
- Arthur Dimmesdale
- Aya Brea
- Barbecue (G.I. Joe)
- Bella Donna (comics)
- Captain Blue
- Cheers characters
- Dum Dum Dugan
- Ellie (The Last of Us)
- Emma Frost
- Faith (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
- Firehair
- Gemini (Marvel Comics)
- Hester Prynne
- Hildegarde Withers
- Jack Donaghy
- Janus (Marvel Comics)
- Jason Macendale
- Jim Ignatowski
- Julia and Vanessa Kapatelis
- List of Boston Public characters
- London Tipton
- Lorna Morello
- Michaela Quinn
- Nelle Porter
- Nick Valentine
- Rat King (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
- Rockslide (character)
- Sam Malone
- Silver Swan (comics)
- Spenser (character)
- The Boston Teens
- Tom Ripley
- Two-Gun Kid
- Vic Mackey
- Zack and Cody Martin
Film series introduced in 1932
- Betty Boop
- Hildegarde Withers
- Puppetoons
- Rambling 'Round Radio Row
- The Mummy (franchise)
Literary characters introduced in 1931
- Babar the Elephant
- Cormac Fitzgeoffrey
- Deep One
- George Fayne
- Hildegarde Withers
- John Kirowan
- Jules Maigret
- Maudie Mason
- O-Lan
- Popeye (Faulkner character)
- Temple Drake
- Tsathoggua
- Turlogh Dubh O'Brien
- Wang Lung
- Zenigata Heiji
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildegarde_Withers
Also known as Hldegarde Withers.