She also made a handful of films, the most notable being The Young in Heart (1938), co-starring with Janet Gaynor, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Paulette Goddard, Roland Young, and Billie Burke.
A musical film version was planned, starring Billie Burke as Miss Pettigrew, but Pearl Harbor put paid to that.
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Mary knows she should not go, but the two go up to Aunt Paula's (Billie Burke) country house in Phoenicia, New York.
Originally written as a humorless grande dame, Schafer worked with the writers to create a character not unlike the scatterbrain roles played in 1930s films by Mary Boland and Billie Burke.