1939Winner
Best Performance
Stagecoach
Fritzi Brunette
Actor
Savannah, Georgia, USA
May 27, 1890
Biography
Fritzi Brunette (born Florence Brunet; May 27, 1890 – September 28, 1943) was an American actress. Brunette made her film debut in the 1912 short A Waiter of Weight, followed by The Joy Ride (1912), and His Neighbor's Wife (1912). Brunette appeared in films such as Unto Those Who Sin (1916), in which she played a working girl of squalor, lured by wealth and luxury, The Woman Thou Gavest Me (1919), While Satan Sleeps (1922), Bells of San Juan (1922), and Camille of the Barbary Coast (1925). In the 1930s and 1940s, Brunette mainly acted in uncredited roles, with her final screen appearance being in You're Telling Me (1942).
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1919Winner
Best Performance
Whitewashed Walls
1937Winner
Best Performance
Make Way for Tomorrow
Career Highlights
1922Highlight
Best Performance
The Crusader
1937Highlight
Best Performance
Maid of Salem
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Stagecoach
Make Way for Tomorrow