 Among the latter were "The Song of Bernadette" (1943) – again for David O. Selznick – in which she played Jennifer Jones' aunt and "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" (1944), as the Abbess of San Luis Rey chapel.Notably, one of her co-stars in the latter film was Alla Nazimova (who had suggested Yurka's casting as Madame Defarge) playing the Marquessa Doña Maria.In "The Southerner" (1945), an American frontier drama directed by Jean Renoir, Yurka's Mama Tucker was the widowed daughter-in-law of cantankerous Granny Tucker played by Beulah Bondi.