Josephine Crowell: Mother in Melodramas, Crone in Comedies
Today Josephine Crowell (1859-1932) is remembered chiefly for several memorable late supporting performances (her last three in fact): as a lady on a street car in Harold Lloyd’s Speedy (1928), as Queen Anne in The Man Who Laughs (1928), and as the painting owner’s mother in Laurel and Hardy’s Wrong Again (1929). Crowell’s stocky physiognomy […]