Renie Riano

American actress

Irene Riano (mother)

Renie Isabel Riano (August 7, 1899 – July 3, 1971)^{[citation needed]} was an English-born American actress who, with the exception of the Jiggs and Maggie comedies, had minor roles in 1940s and 1950s films. She was sometimes credited as Reine Riano, Renee Riano, or Rene Riano.^[1]

Biography

Riano's parents were Robert and Irene Riano of vaudeville's popular Four Rianos acrobatic act, an eccentric acrobat act which toured the world in vaudeville, variety and music halls.^[2]^[3]

In 1918, she married an American, John W. Neil, in New Jersey and thereby became an American citizen. Their daughter Jane was born in Philadelphia in 1919.^{[citation needed]}

Filmography

Film

Music Box Revue (1923, Pathé film of C. B. Cochran's London production including Riano performing with Ethelind Terry)
My Dear Miss Aldrich (1937) - Maid (uncredited)
Tovarich (1937) - Madame Courtois
You're a Sweetheart (1937) - Mrs. Hepplethwaite
Outside of Paradise (1938) - Ellen
Women Are Like That (1938) - Hotel Maid (uncredited)
Men Are Such Fools (1938) - Mrs. Pinkel
Four's a Crowd (1938) - Mrs. Jenkins
The Road to Reno (1938) - Woman Bailiff
The Storm (1938) - Woman Passenger (uncredited)
Spring Madness (1938) - Mildred
Strange Faces (1938) - Mrs. Keller, Landlady
Nancy Drew... Detective (1938) - Effie Schneider
Thanks for Everything (1938) - Mrs. Sweeney
Wings of the Navy (1939) - Train Passenger (uncredited)
Nancy Drew... Reporter (1939) - Effie Schneider (uncredited)
Tail Spin (1939) - Chick's Pilot Girlfriend (uncredited)
Wife, Husband and Friend (1939) - Mrs. Craig
Dodge City (1939) - President of Prairie League (uncredited)
Mr. Moto in Danger Island (1939) - Librarian (uncredited)
Tell No Tales (1939) - Olga - Maid (uncredited)
Bridal Suite (1939) - Mrs. Pujol (uncredited)
Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter (1939) - Effie Schneider
The Women (1939) - Ugly Saleswoman (uncredited)
Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (1939) - Effie Schneider
Honeymoon in Bali (1939) - Head Saleswoman (uncredited)
Disputed Passage (1939) - Mrs. Riley
Day-Time Wife (1939) - Miss Briggs
The Honeymoon's Over (1939) - Annie
Oh Johnny, How You Can Love (1940) - 'Junior's' Mother (uncredited)
The Shop Around the Corner (1940) - Customer (uncredited)
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1940) - Lilly Wigham
High School (1940) - Miss Grace (uncredited)
The Ghost Comes Home (1940) - Sarah Osborn
The Doctor Takes a Wife (1940) - Telegraph Operator (uncredited)
Those Were the Days! (1940) - Hysterical Woman on Streetcar (uncredited)
Kit Carson (1940) - Miss Pilchard
A Little Bit of Heaven (1940) - Mrs. Dixon
Li'l Abner (1940) - Sarah Jones
Remedy for Riches (1940) - Mrs. Gattle
Adam Had Four Sons (1941) - Photographer
You're the One (1941) - Aunt Emma, aka Faro Fanny
Ziegfeld Girl (1941) - Annie
Affectionately Yours (1941) - Mrs. Snell
Ice-Capades (1941) - Karen Vadja
Unfinished Business (1941) - Ross's Secretary (uncredited)
The Smiling Ghost (1941) - Homely Woman (uncredited)
You Belong to Me (1941) - Minnie
They Died with Their Boots On (1941) - Nurse (uncredited)
Whispering Ghosts (1942) - Meg (Stella)
There's One Born Every Minute (1942) - Miss Aphrodite Phipps
Blondie for Victory (1942) - Miss Clabber, Cookie's Babysitter (uncredited)
The Man from Music Mountain (1943) - Christina Kellogg - Housekeeper
Jam Session (1944) - Ms. Tobin
Take It or Leave It (1944) - Mrs. Nellie Bramble (uncredited)
None but the Lonely Heart (1944) - Flo (uncredited)
Three Is a Family (1944) - Genevieve
Can't Help Singing (1944) - Spinster Exiting Bathhouse (uncredited)
A Song for Miss Julie (1945) - Eurydice Lannier
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) - Lady Ruxton (uncredited)
Anchors Aweigh (1945) - Studio Waitress (uncredited)
River Gang (1945) - Mrs. Hawkins (uncredited)
Club Havana (1945) - Mrs. Cavendish
So Goes My Love (1946) - Emily
Winter Wonderland (1946) - Mrs. Schuyler-Riggs
Bad Bascomb (1946) - Lucy Lovejoy
Bringing Up Father (1946) - Maggie Jiggs
Jiggs and Maggie in Society (1947) - Maggie Jiggs
The Time of Your Life (1948) - Lorene Smith (a blind date)
An Act of Murder (1948) - Mrs. McGuinness (uncredited)
Jiggs and Maggie in Court (1948) - Maggie Jiggs
Jiggs and Maggie in Jackpot Jitters (1949) - Maggie Jiggs
Jiggs and Maggie Out West (1950) - Maggie Jiggs
As Young as You Feel (1951) - Harpist (uncredited)
The Barefoot Mailman (1951) - Miss Emily (uncredited)
Clipped Wings (1953) - WAF Sgt. Anderson
Bikini Beach (1964) - Old Lady #2
Pajama Party (1964) - Maid
The Family Jewels (1965) - Airline Passenger #2
Three on a Couch (1966) - Old Woman
Fireball 500 (1966) - Marthy

Television

Green Acres (1966) - Mrs. Granite - Molly Turggis (1969) - Stewardess Miss Jones (three different episodes)
Mayberry RFD (1969) - Aunt Ella
The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (1970) - Miss Stoddard

References

^ Rene Riano at IBDB
^ Quinlan, David (1995). Quinlan's illustrated directory of film character actors. Batsford. p. 301. ISBN 978-0-7134-7040-6. Retrieved April 25, 2013.
^ "18 Sep 1946, Page 17 - The Cincinnati Enquirer at Newspapers.com".