biography
pronunciation:
[kaw(r)nel]
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| female
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| lived:
| (1893–1974)
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| biography:
| Stage actress, born in Berlin, Germany. Her debut in the USA was with the Washington Square Players (1916), and her first New York success was A Bill of Divorcement (1921). She married, then formed a successful team with her producer-director husband, Guthrie McClintic. She was known for her performances in many theatre classics, including the role for which she was best known, Elizabeth Moulton-Barrett in The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1931), later produced on television (1956). Other work included Saint Joan (1936) and The Three Sisters (1942), and in 1959 she played Mrs Patrick Campbell in Jerome Kilty's Dear Liar. One of the first American performers to form her own repertory company, she took several entire New York productions on the road. In 1961, after her husband's death, she retired from the theatre. |
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