6 Best Blanche Yurka Movies

By Vlad Zakh · March 24, 2026

Blanche Yurka brought commanding, theatrical intensity to Hollywood and often played formidable, vengeful older women. A Tale of Two Cities is her best-known role, The Song of Bernadette meets a peasant girl’s visions with devotion and scepticism, Escape rescues a mother from a Nazi camp, Queen of the Mob leads a crime family, and Pursued haunts a man with fragmented childhood memories. City for Conquest rounds out the list.

Pursued (1947)

TMDB ★ 6.9

Blanche Yurka features in this western noir about a man haunted by fragmented childhood memories who seeks to uncover the violent truth of his past.

Directed by Raoul Walsh · 1h 41m

Where to watch

Stream: FlixFling · Rent or buy: FlixFling

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The Song of Bernadette (1943)

TMDB ★ 7.4

Alan Napier features in this drama about a poor young French girl who claims to have witnessed a vision of the Virgin Mary.

Directed by Henry King · 2h 36m · Rated NR

Where to watch

Stream: Darkroom · Rent or buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

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Escape (1940)

TMDB ★ 6.6

Blanche Yurka features in this wartime drama about an American man who risks his life to rescue his mother from a Nazi concentration camp.

Directed by Mervyn LeRoy · 1h 38m · Rated NR

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Queen of the Mob (1940)

TMDB ★ 5.9

Blanche Yurka features in this crime drama about a ruthless matriarch who leads her family's criminal gang while federal agents close in.

Directed by James P. Hogan · 1h 01m

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City for Conquest (1940)

TMDB ★ 7.1

Blanche Yurka is in this drama about a talented boxer who sacrifices his own dreams to fund his younger brother's musical career.

Directed by Anatole Litvak & Jean Negulesco · 1h 44m · Rated NR

Where to watch

Rent or buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

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A Tale of Two Cities (1935)

TMDB ★ 7.6

A dissolute English lawyer gives up everything for the woman he loves during the French Revolution.

Directed by Jack Conway · 2h 06m

Where to watch

Rent or buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

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Vlad Zakh

Founder, Movieix

Founder of Movieix. He started the site because most recommendation pages felt like noise. Here, lists are sorted by who's in the film, where it's from and what mood you're in tonight.

6 Best Blanche Yurka Movies

Pursued (1947)

The Song of Bernadette (1943)

Escape (1940)

Queen of the Mob (1940)

City for Conquest (1940)

A Tale of Two Cities (1935)

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