Symona Ferner Boniface (March 5, 1894[citation needed] – September 2, 1950) was an American film actress, most frequently seen in bit parts in comedy shorts, mostly at Columbia Pictures, particularly those of The Three Stooges.

[2] She first appeared in Columbia Pictures' two-reel comedies in 1935, and would work with the studio's short-subject comedians Andy Clyde, Monte Collins and Tom Kennedy, Buster Keaton, Hugh Herbert, Vera Vague, and especially The Three Stooges, whose broad slapstick antics upset the dowager's dignity.

She dealt with a shrinking or torn skirt in No Census, No Feeling and Crash Goes the Hash, squirmed thanks to a mouse crawling down her back in Loco Boy Makes Good, and was flooded in both Spook Louder and her final appearance, Vagabond Loafers.

Noticing his nervousness and frequent upward glances, Smythe-Smythe sympathetically comments, "Young man, you act as if the Sword of Damocles is hanging over your head."

This scene was so memorable that producer-director Jules White included it in three later shorts filmed after her death: Pest Man Wins, Scheming Schemers, and Pies and Guys.