Merle Tottenham

Merle Tottenham (22 January 1901 – 18 July 1958) was a British stage and film actress. Her stage work included the original West End production of Noël Coward's Cavalcade in 1931; and she reprised her role as Annie the servant in the subsequent Hollywood film, in 1933. She also appeared as Dora, the maid in Night Must Fall with Robert Montgomery and Rosalind Russell, and the film version of Coward's This Happy Breed (1944), as Edie, the maid.

Partial filmography

Immediate Possession (1931, Short) - Polly Baxter Down Our Street (1932) - Rose Here's George (1932) - Perkins Cavalcade (1933) - Annie Bondage (1933) - Ruth Paddy the Next Best Thing (1933) - Maid The Invisible Man (1933) - Millie The Night Club Queen (1934) - Alice Lamont Borrowed Clothes (1934) - Minor Role (uncredited) Youthful Folly (1934) Sporting Love (1936) - Maid Chick (1936) - Maid The Man in the Mirror (1936) - Mary (uncredited) Night Must Fall (1937) - Dora Bank Holiday (1938) - Milly Over the Moon (1939) - Maid (uncredited) Dead Men Are Dangerous (1939) - Gladys A Girl Must Live (1939) - College inmate Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) - Nellie, maid to Mr & Mrs Chipping (uncredited) Poison Pen (1939) - Mrs. Kemp The Young Mr. Pitt (1942) - Maid at Lord Auckland's (uncredited) We Dive at Dawn (1943) - (uncredited) Headline (1943) - Mrs. Deans This Happy Breed (1944) - Edie Love Story (1944) - Bus Conductoress (uncredited) I Didn't Do It (1945) - Tessie Caravan (1946) - Tweeny (uncredited) My Brother Jonathan (1948) - Alice Rudge Calling Paul Temple (1948) - Millie The Weaker Sex (1948) - Woman in Fish Queue (uncredited) Sleeping Car to Trieste (1948) - Miss Smith (uncredited) It's Hard to Be Good (1948) - Mrs. Hobson (uncredited) The Twenty Questions Murder Mystery (1950) - Mrs. Tavy's Neighbour (uncredited) Room to Let (1950) - Alice The Woman in Question (1950) - Neighbour (uncredited) (final film role)