Greta Meyer
Biography
From Wikipedia Greta Meyer (August 7, 1883 – October 8, 1965) was a German actress in motion pictures beginning in the silent film era. She performed for almost seventy years. She belonged to the most famous theatrical family in Germany, comparable to the Barrymore family in America. Her early film efforts came in films like De jantjes (1922) and Die Königsloge (1929). Meyer came to America in 1923 from her native Germany. She subsequently became a U.S. citizen. She appeared in many Hollywood movies between 1933 and 1942, including The Great Waltz (1938) and Bitter Sweet (1940).
Known For & Full Filmography53 Titles
Movie - 1932, 2h 15m • as Housekeeper in Room 174 (uncredited)
Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.
Movie - 1939, 2h 15m • as Masseuse (uncredited)
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
Movie - 1936, 2h 15m • as Connie's Maid (uncredited)
When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the publication's frazzled head editor, Warren Haggerty, must find a way to turn the tables on her. Soon Haggerty's harried fiancée, Gladys Benton, and his dashing friend Bill Chandler are in on a scheme that aims to discredit Connie, with amusing and unexpected results.
Movie - 1936, 2h 15m • as Molly (uncredited)
Linda, the wife of a publishing executive, suspects that her husband Van’s relationship with his attractive secretary Whitey is more than professional.
Movie - 1935, 2h 15m • as Frau Schuman
In order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escapes to colonial New Orleans, where she finds an unlikely true love.
Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • as Female Nurse
True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphilis.
Movie - 1934, 2h 15m • as Bella (Uncredited)
A socialite only realises that her friend is in love with her when she falls for the wrong man.
Movie - 1938, 2h 15m • as Mrs. Schmidt (uncredited)
A notorious counterfeiter passes himself off as a Secret Service agent to Steve and gets him to unwittingly help him bilk the racetrack out of tens of thousands.
Movie - 1939, 2h 15m • as Madeleine's Nurse (uncredited)
A waitress destined for a better life falls in love with a handsome stranger, only to find that he is already married.
Movie - 1938, 2h 15m • as Mrs. Swanson, a Masseuse (uncredited)
A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically involved with two sophisticated men.
Movie - 1936, 2h 15m • as Viennese Waitress (uncredited)
Close friends Martha and Karen build a private boarding school together with the aid of the local doctor Joe. The school takes off and many students enroll, one of whom is a trouble-maker who tells a scandalous lie that threatens to destroy the trio's lives.
Movie - 1933, 2h 15m • as Dancing Girl's Mother (uncredited)
Kitty Lorraine has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley into a star. Kitty controls every aspect of the girl's nascent career -- even blackmailing a stage manager so that Shirley can take a more prestigious gig. But Kitty goes too far when she breaks up her daughter's budding relationship with sweet artist Warren Foster. Heartbroken, Shirley sets off on a series of disastrous but profitable relationships.
Movie - 1933, 2h 15m • as Aunt Sophie (uncredited)
A charlatan posing as Baron Munchhausen is invited to be guest speaker at a girls' school.
Movie - 1938, 2h 15m • as Mrs. Vogelhuber
Composer Johann Strauss risks his marriage over his infatuation with a beautiful singer.
Movie - 1937, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Philo Vance investigates a series of murders among members of the wealthy Greene family.
Movie - 1937, 2h 15m • as Hans' Mother
Theater manager James Guthrie's (Melvyn Douglas) career depends on famed soprano Elsa Terry (Grace Moore) singing in his Buenos Aires opera house, however, Elsa breaks the contract in favor of a more lucrative deal in Paris. Desperate, James begins showering her with flowers and candy in an attempt to woo her to the Argentinian opera house. When Elsa overhears James confess to his friend Pancho that he'd be willing to resort to kidnapping to get Elsa to Argentina, she mistakenly believes his motives to be solely romantic.
Movie - 1933, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A mother from Arkansas is very possessive of her grown son. To prevent him from getting married she has him drafted into WW I.
Movie - 1935, 2h 15m • as Masseuse
A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
Movie - 1941, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A sudden windfall has unexpected consequences on a working class girl during the Great Depression.
Movie - 1935, 2h 15m • as Minnie, Marion's Maid
Everyweek Newsmagazine editor Richard Kurt pursues famous free-spirited portrait artist Marion Forsythe on her return to the states from Europe, seeking to convince her to write her biography as a feature for his magazine. One of Marion's old beaus, now running for U.S. Senator from their home state, also comes calling.
Movie - 1942, 2h 15m • as Customer (uncredited)
Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get him safely out of the country.
Movie - 1935, 2h 15m • as Glass' Housekeeper (uncredited)
G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the jailbreak of the gang's leader, Crane joins him in a Dillinger-like flight across the country.
Movie - 1934, 2h 15m • as Mrs. Peterson
Bob Curtis (William Gargan), the youngest member of the New York City plain-clothes squad, is assigned to help Detective-Sergeant Doyle (Paul Hurst) uncover the people behind a number of fur robberies. Peggy Arnold (Marian Nixon), a beautiful girl, comes under suspicion, but Bob, convinced of her innocence, adopts a desperate plan to clear her and round up the real criminals.
Movie - 1941, 2h 15m • as Frieda
Seeking US citizenship, a Viennese refugee arranges a marriage of convenience with a struggling writer.
Movie - 1933, 2h 15m • as Lola's Masseuse (uncredited)
A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.
Movie - 1937, 2h 15m • as Mama - Zeppelin Passenger (uncredited)
Torchy Blane solves a murder and smuggling case during a round-the-world flight.
Movie - 1936, 2h 15m • as Mrs. Schmidt
A French air ace discovers that his showgirl wife's first husband is still alive.
Movie - 1932, 2h 15m • as Marta's Maid Trudi (uncredited)
Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden. There, via ongoing continuing deceit and manipulation, he gradually attains a monopoly on the matchstick market in several countries and becomes an influential international figure. Based on the true story of Ivar Kreuger.
Movie - 1933, 2h 15m • as Little Heinie's Mother
The dim-witted son of a heroic fire chief tries to follow in his late father's footsteps, only to become the unknowing pawn of corrupt politicians.
Movie - 1935, 2h 15m • as Candace
A romance between two young lovers is complicated by their prohibitive parents. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.
Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • as Mama Luden
A woman runs away with her music teacher in order to escape an arranged marriage, but they struggle to make ends meet.
Movie - 1933, 2h 15m • as Lisa Bjorkman
A carnival girl pretends to be Swedish in order to win a movie role.
Movie - 1934, 2h 15m • as Hilda
When a young man marries a Russian girl, he finds that he has "married" her entire family.
Movie - 1935, 2h 15m • as Marta
The ghost of a recently deceased family patriarch tries to help his surviving relatives, in part by preventing a marriage that he knows will go wrong.
Movie - 1932, 2h 15m • as Mrs. Herman
Gifted German wrestler Polokai falls in love with ex-con Laura, who persuades him to emigrate to America and gets him involved with crooked promoters.
Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • as Hausfrau
An American vacations in Europe with her husband and watches him turn into a Nazi.
Movie - 1939, 2h 15m • as Mrs. Rovitch (uncredited)
An ace reporter with a girlfriend nails a numbers racketeer for murders.
Movie - 1937, 2h 15m • as Hilda
William Reardon, a steel magnate, dies and leaves a strange will. When his spineless and dandified heir and son returns home from living in Paris, he finds "Tons' Walker, a strong and burly steel worker running the company, per his late-father's will request. He also finds that his father's will specifies the Junior will change his name to Bill Hall and work in the family steel mill for a year under the fake name. Walker's job is to make a man out of the son. The son is not overjoyed by this prospect. Neither is Walker.
Movie - 1938, 2h 15m • as Hilda - Lethany Housekeeper
Choreographer Bob Connolly and prolific screenwriter Crane Wilbur teamed up on the direction of Warner Bros.' The Patient in Room 18. Patric Knowles delivers a delightfully comic performance as Lance, an outwardly normal young man obsessed with detective stories. When his obsession threatens to lapse over into lunacy, Lance is sent to the hospital for a nice long rest. It isn't long before he gets mixed up in a genuine murder mystery, using his second-hand knowhow to solve the case. Up-and-coming Ann Sheridan is quite amusing as Lance's nurse and confidante, while the murderer is played by a fellow who is usually cast as the murder victim.
Movie - 1933, 2h 15m • as Mrs. Mannheimer
Fast-talker extraordinaire Tracy gives one of his quintessential wiseguy performances as a conniving ambulance chaser who falls in love with Evans, unaware she's a special investigator for a streetcar company he's repeatedly victimized.
Movie - 1936, 2h 15m • as Hilda - the Maid
A profligate, polo-playing playboy (Henry Fonda) is married to a beautiful but superficial heiress (Mary Brian). They divorce, and the wife gets all the money. But the humbled (and impoverished) Fonda finds true love in the arms of Pat Paterson, who cares nothing for material things.
Movie - 1932, 2h 15m • as Swiss Inn Proprietress
A woman whose husband never came home from World War I finds herself in love with her doctor. She travels with him to Switzerland, and as they check into the hotel there, she is astounded to see her supposedly dead husband.
Movie - 1942, 2h 15m • as Gretchen
During World War I, two German men friends who emigrated to the US and become millionaires agree on most things, with one major difference: one has taken the US side against Germany regarding the war, while the other stays stubbornly loyal to "the old country". His stubbornness results in tragedy for his old friend and a lesson in the consequences of blind loyalty.
Movie - 1934, 2h 15m • as Anna, the Cook
Heiress Hedda Nillson certain that her family is about to lose all its money, takes a job as a maid. After the usual trials and tribulations, Hedda falls in love with humble chauffeur Eric Landstrom.
Movie - 1935, 2h 15m • as Jans
A gambler hires a detective to investigate when a murder is committed in his casino.
Movie - 1939, 2h 15m • as Hilda
An elderly war veteran feels lonely and unwanted while living with his son and daughter-in-law, but he learns his life still has purpose when he befriends a neighborhood child with a troubled family life.
Movie - 1935, 2h 15m • as Mrs. Krausemeyer
Socialite Pat Reynolds (Ida Lupino) is forced to become the "smart girl" of the title when her wealthy father commits suicide, leaving nothing but a pile of debts. Pat sets up a successful hat-designing business, providing the sole support for herself and her sister Kay (Gail Patrick). So devoted is Pat to Kay's welfare that she stands by in stoic silence as Kay begins romancing Pat's sweetie Nick Graham (Kent Taylor).
Movie - 1931, 2h 15m • as Emma
A young opera singer finds her career stalled because of her cold and passionless performances, until she finds romance with a handsome admirer.
Movie - 1935, 2h 15m • as Mrs. Borgerschmith
Thelma and Patsy are reporters who investigate a hospital.
Movie - 1933, 2h 15m • as Mrs. Barfuss (uncredited)
A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster, who hopes to enlist their help in devising the perfect murder.
Movie - 1937, 2h 15m • as Hannah Werner
In this drama, a girl from a small town in Pennsylvania dreams of being a star while she goes to school. The trouble is, no one notices her. Later a mentor turns her into a successful Broadway entertainer. She returns to her former college to get sweet revenge.
Movie - 1934, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
To avoid getting a speeding ticket Walter poses as an expectant father rushing to see his wife; when the cop follows him, he's forced to come up with a wife and child.
Movie - 1937, 2h 15m • as Bertha (the wet nurse)
A groom-to-be contracts syphilis and wrestles with the consequences of his diagnosis.