Biography
Tall brunette leading lady who hit her stride in the 1940s playing wisecracking, no-nonsense career women in a string of breezy comedies. Entering films in 1935, she was briefly typecast as upper crust, sometimes British "other women", but quickly established herself in leading roles (especially with her performances in such fine films as Dorothy Arzner's "Craig's Wife" 1936 and King Vidor's "The Citadel" 1938). She really achieved full star …
LATEST CREDITS
Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad | Madame Rosepettle |
The Velvet Touch | Valerie Stanton/Hedda Gabler |
Auntie Mame | Mame Dennis |
Mrs. Pollifax - Spy | Emily Pollifax |
Where Angels Go... Trouble Follows | Mother Simplicia |
A Majority of One | Mrs Jacoby |
The Girl Rush | Kim Halliday |
Gypsy | Rose |
Five Finger Exercise | Louise Harrington |
Mourning Becomes Electra | Actor |
Wonderful Town | Ruth Sherwood |
The Crooked Hearts | Laurita Dorsey |
Rosie | Rosie |
The Trouble With Angels | Mother Superior |
Night Must Fall | Actor |
His Girl Friday | Hildy Johnson |
The Citadel | Christine Barlow |
Picnic | Rosemary Sydney |
The Women | Sylvia Fowler |
China Seas | Actor |
The American Film Institute Salute to John Ford | Actor |
The Loretta Young Theater | Performer |
Rhosyn a Rhith | Song Performer ("Everything's Coming Up Roses" ) |
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