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Frieda Inescort (born Frieda Wrightman, 29 June 1901 – 26 February 1976) was a Scottish actress best known for creating the role of Sorel Bliss in Noël Coward's play Hay Fever on Broadway. [1] She also played the shingled lady in John Galsworthy 's 1927 Broadway production Escape [ 2 ] and Caroline Bingley in the 1940 film of Jane Austen 's ...
Melissa Johns is a British actress and disability activist. She is known for playing Sadie in The Interceptor, Imogen Pascoe on Coronation Street, Hannah Taylor in Life, and Miss Scott in Grantchester. [1] Johns is an ambassador for disability in the arts and advocates for better representation of disability on- and off-screen and stage. [2] [3]
Tompkins was born in Chicago, Illinois on November 6, 1940. [2] [3] Her parents were divorced when she reached the age of five and she took the surname of her stepfather. Her family performed in plays and vaudeville, and she had an early goal to be a Hollywood actress. At the age of twelve she was mauled by a dog which left her very self-conscious.
Shirley Patterson, sometimes billed as Shawn Smith, (December 26, 1922 – April 4, 1995) was a Canadian-born B-movie actress of the 1940s and 1950s. Early years [ edit ]
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Pin-up photo of McDonald for Yank, the Army Weekly in 1943. McDonald's work in Babes in Arms led to a film contract with Universal Pictures. [3] She made her screen debut in 1940's Dancing on a Dime, [1] [4] and appeared in Give Out, Sisters (1942), It Ain't Hay (1943), Destiny (1944), See My Lawyer (1945), [5] and Strictly in the Groove in 1942.
A native of Los Angeles, Julie Anne Payne was the daughter of John Payne, film and television leading man of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, and Anne Shirley, who started as a child actress in the late silent-early talkie period and became an ingenue and, later, leading lady of the late 1930s and early 1940s. They were married from 1937 to 1943 ...
Between 1937 and 1940 she appeared in supporting roles in several movies. Her big break came the 1940 film, Primrose Path , as Ginger Rogers 's younger sister, for which she won a Critics Award. The same year she became the first child star to be summoned from Hollywood in order to appear in the leading role in a Broadway musical, Panama Hattie ...