Ferike Boros
Birthday: 1873-08-03
Place of Birth: Nagyvárad, Austria-Hungary [now Oradea, Romania]
Synopsis
Ferike Boros (3 August 1873 – 16 January 1951) was a Hungarian-born American stage and movie actress.
Born in Nagyvárad, Austria-Hungary, in 1873, Boros was on stage starting in 1893. She moved to London in 1903, two years later appearing at Covent Garden. In Hungary, she performed in the National Court Theatre (NCT) in Budapest. In 1909, while still with the NCT, she visited the United States and Canada as part of a trip around the world to report on how dramatic productions were staged in each country that she visited. As she visited various theatrical managers in New York City, she regularly encountered rejection despite her official letter (written in English) from the NCT. In one office she was told, "Oh, Mr. Belasco is flooded with crazy communications from freaks and fakirs and cranks ..."
After being well-coached in English and the conventions of American show business, she had a long career on the Broadway stage and in theatrical touring companies, from 1909 through 1927; thereafter she was seen in character roles in motion pictures.
Boros died in her home in Van Nuys, California, on 16 January 1951, aged 77.
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Acting
Once Upon a Honeymoon
as Elsa
A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.
Caught in the Draft
as Yetta
Don Bolton is a movie star who can't stand loud noises. To evade the draft, he decides to get married...but falls for a colonel's daughter. By mistake, he and his two cronies enlist. In basic training, Don hopes to make a good impression on the fair Antoinette and her father, but his military career is largely slapstick. Will he ever get his corporal's stripes?
La Conga Nights
as Mama O'Brien
In this comedy, actor Hugh Herbert plays six different roles. Only one of the roles is a man. The story centers around a dizzy music lover, who has grown rich through real estate deals. Also figuring in the story are a cab driver/performer, and a down-on-her-luck, aspiring singer. They meet when she hails his cab as she skips out on her former boarding house because she cannot pay rent.
Argentine Nights
as Mama Viejos
An all-girl band flees to Argentina to avoid their creditors. Comedy with songs.
Bachelor Mother
as Mrs. Weiss
Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling. Outraged at Polly's unmotherly conduct, David Merlin becomes determined to keep the single woman and "her" baby together.
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5th Ave Girl
as Olga
A wealthy man hires a poor girl to play his mistress in order to get more attention from his neglectful family.
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Love Affair
as Terry's Landlady (uncredited)
A French playboy and an American former nightclub singer fall in love aboard a ship. They arrange to reunite six months later, if neither has changed their mind.
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Rafter Romance
as Rosie Eckbaum (uncredited)
A working girl shares her apartment with an artist, taking the place in shifts.
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Huddle
as Mrs. Amatto
Tony, the son of Italian immigrants, works in a smoky steel mill in Gary, Indiana. He wins a company scholarship which will enable him to attend Yale college. Over the four years of his college career he learns about football, love, and class prejudice.
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Svengali
as Marta (uncredited)
A music maestro uses hypnotism on a young model he meets in Paris to make her both his muse and wife.
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Born Reckless
as Ma Beretti
In order to use the publicity to get re-elected, a judge sentences a notorious gangster to fight in the war.
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The Younger Generation
as Delancey Street Woman
Soap-opera about a social-climbing Jewish man and his old-world parents who are heartbroken by his rejection of them. Young Morris Goldfish follows his immigrant father into business. His ruthless business practices cause him to become a big success, and he moves the family to Park Avenue. They go, but were happier back on the East Side. Morris is ashamed of this parents and his humble origins, but learns in the end that there is more to life than money.
