Verree Teasdale, 1903-1987

Verree Teasdale in a publicity still from A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)

Today marks the birth anniversary of actress Verree Teasdale, who played mostly supporting roles in about two dozen movies in the 1930s. Probably her most famous role would be as Hippolyta, who is supposed to get married to Theseus (Ian Hunter) in A Midsummer Night's Dream, before Puck (Mickey Rooney) bollixes everything up.

Among the other movies that air from time to time on TCM that you can see Teasdale in are Skyscraper Souls, in which she plays Warren William's mistress; or the Harold Lloyd movie The Milky Way, in which Teasdale plays the girlfriend of Lloyd's manager, who is played by Adolphe Menjou. In fact, I could have used this movie in the Thursday Movie Picks from three weeks ago about real-life couples in movies together. Well, except that I didn't know that Teasdale was married to Menjou at the time, and would remain married to Menjou until his death in 1963.

There's also Payment Deferred, in which Teasdale tries to seduce Charles Laughton after he's gone and killed Ray Milland.