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Looking for reviews of Doro Merande movies? Cinafilm has a total of 1,009 reviews across 12 movies.
Movies starring Doro Merande have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 64%.
The Snake Pit - released in 1948 - is Doro Merande's highest rated movie, with a score of 76% based on 91 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Doro Merande is Skidoo - released in 1968 - with a score of 45% based on 29 reviews.
Plain, angular Doro Merande was one of those delightful character actresses you couldn't take your eyes off of, no matter how minuscule the part. She excelled at playing older than she was -- doting aunts, inveterate gossips, curt secretaries and small-minded townspeople -- all topped with an amusing warble in her voice and bristly eccentric edge. Too bad then that she wasn't used more in films, but she preferred live theater and based herself for the most part on the East Coast. She was born Dora Matthews in Kansas in 1892 and orphaned as a child. Growing up in boarding schools, she headed to New York and pursued an acting career immediately after finishing her education. She appeared long and hard on the stock stage before making it on Broadway at age 43. She settled there sparking over 25 Broadway plays in her lifetime, including a scene-stealing turn in the classic Thorton Wilder play "Our Town" which brought her to Hollywood to preserve the role on film. On and off she remained a delightful film and TV cameo player with roles in The Gazebo (1959), Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming, The (1966) and The Front Page (1974). She and star Enid Markey (Jane of the "Tarzan" film silents) starred together as pampering aunts in the sitcom Bringing Up Buddy (1960), but, despite promising ratings, the two veteran actresses did not get along and the series folded after only a season. Ms. Merande was also a recurring presence for Jackie Gleason on his variety show. She died, in fact, of a stroke while there in Miami to film an episode.
Doro Merande has acted in films with John Phillip Law, Burgess Meredith, Austin Pendleton and Kim Novak.
Doro Merande has worked with these film directors: Otto Preminger, Billy Wilder, Norman Jewison and Anatole Litvak.
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