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May Whitty

January 01, 1970

Dame Mary Louise Webster, DBE (née Whitty; 19 June 1865 – 29 May 1948), known professionally as May Whitty and later, for her charity work, Dame May Whitty, was an English stage and film actress. She was one of the first two women entertainers to become a Dame. The British actors' union Equity was established in her home in 1930.

Dame
May Whitty
DBE
Born
Mary Louise Whitty

(1865-06-19)19 June 1865
Liverpool, Lancashire, England
Died29 May 1948(1948-05-29) (aged 82)
Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
OccupationActress
Years active1881–1948
Spouse
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(m. 1892; died 1947)​
Children2, including Margaret

Her film roles included Alfred Hitchcock's thriller The Lady Vanishes (1938) in which she played Miss Froy, a British spy posing as a governess who disappears on a train. After a successful career both on the West End stage and in British films, she moved over to Hollywood films at the age of 72.

Background edit

Whitty was born in Liverpool, England, to William Alfred Whitty (circa 1837–1876), a newspaper proprietor,[1] and Mary Louisa (née Ashton, circa 1837–1894). Her grandfather was Michael James Whitty, Chief Constable in Liverpool and founder of the Liverpool Daily Post.[2] She made her first stage appearance in Liverpool in 1881, later moving to London to appear in the West End.[3]

She married the actor-manager Ben Webster on 3 August 1892 in St Giles's Parish Church, London.[4] In 1895 they visited the United States, where Whitty appeared on Broadway. Their first child, a son, died at birth. Their only surviving child, a daughter born in New York in 1905, Margaret Webster, was a producer who held dual US and UK citizenship. She was chair of the Actresses' Franchise League (AFL).[2]

Whitty's stage career continued for the rest of her life. In March 1910, she made her transition to middle-aged and elderly character roles, playing Amelia Madras in Harley Granville-Barker's four-act comedy The Madras House.[5] During World War I she was active in the AFL, working there to help organize the Women's Emergency Corps.[6] In March 1922, she played the role of Mrs. Bennet before the Queen in a benefit performance of Pride and Prejudice. She acted opposite her husband, who played Mr. Darcy.[7]

Honours edit

In the 1918 New Year Honours, she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE, gazetted under her legal married name Mary Louise Webster) in recognition of her charitable work during the First World War for the Three Arts Women's Employment Fund and the British Women's Hospitals Committee.[2] She was the first stage and film actress to receive a damehood, along with the opera singer Nellie Melba, who was also thus honoured in 1918.[8]

Film career and death edit

I've got everything Betty Grable has—I've just had it longer.[5]

Whitty made her Hollywood film debut at the age of 72, recreating her 1935 stage role in the Hollywood film Night Must Fall (1937), which also starred Robert Montgomery and Rosalind Russell. She received an Oscar nomination. This led to several supporting roles in films, including that of the vanishing lady, Miss Froy, in Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes (1938).[2]

In 1939, Whitty permanently moved to the United States - although she never became a US citizen; and appeared both on stage and in Hollywood films, usually playing wealthy dowagers. It was one such part, as Lady Beldon in Mrs. Miniver (1942), that brought her a second Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.[2]

She continued to act for the remainder of her life, and died on 29 May 1948 in Beverly Hills, California, from cancer at the age of 82;[2] her husband had died the previous year during surgery. She is commemorated with a plaque at St Paul's parish church in Covent Garden, London, alongside the plaque to her husband.

Stage roles edit

Dates are of the first performance.

Date (year, month, day) Title Author(s) City Theatre Role
1890-02-14 The Home Feud Walter Frith London Comedy Helen Joliffe[9]
1890-07-04 Vanity of Vanities Justin Huntly McCarthy London Shaftesbury Princess Nicholas[10]
1891-01-07 Private Enquiry F. C. Burnand (based on Albert Valabrègue’s La Sécurité des Familles) London Royal Strand Mrs. Buckleigh[11]
1891-02-14 Turned Up Mark Melford London Royal Strand Sabina Medway[12]
1891-04-01 Linda Grey Sir Charles L. Young London Princes Lady Broughton[13]
1891-04-15 Our Daughters T.G. Warren & Willie Edouin London Royal Strand Nellie Mayhew[14]
1891-07-01 Mrs. Annesley J. F. Cooke London Criterion Estelle Brandreth[15]
1891-07-27 Fate and Fortune, or, The Junior Partner James J. Blood London Princess's Grace Hasluck[16]
1892-01-06 The Showman’s Daughter Frances Hodgson Burnett London Royalty Linda Hurst[17]
1892-02-16 The Silver Shield Sydney Grundy London Vaudeville Lucy Preston[18]
1892-05-10 A Caprice Justin Huntly McCarthy, adapted from Alfred de Musset's Un Caprice London Vaudeville Mathilde[19]
1892-05-25 The Noble Art Eille Norwood London Terry's Gertie Fullalove[20]
1892-05-26 In the Season Langdon Elwyn Mitchell London Vaudeville Sybil March[21]
1892-09-14 Our Boys Henry James Byron London Vaudeville Mary Melrose[22]
1893-01-28 The Guv’Nor Robert Reece (writing under the pseudonym E.G. Lankester) London Vaudeville Aurelia[23]
1893-02-16 Flight Walter Frith London Terry's Mrs. Amherst[24]
1893-06-09 The Younger Son R.S. Sievier London Gaiety Evelyn Brookfield[25]
1893-06-19 The Adventures of a Night Meyrick Milton, adaptated from Los Empenos de Seis Horas by Pedro Calderón de la Barca London Royal Strand Donna Bianca[26]
1893-12-21 Beauty’s Toils Charles S. Fawcett, founded on Her Fatal Beauty by W.B. Maxell London Royal Strand Ethel Cumming[27]
1894-07-02 Our Flot Mrs. H. Musgrave London Royal Strand Margery Sylvester[28]
1895-03-12 A Loving Legacy Fred W. Sidney London Royal Strand Kitty O'Rourke[29]
1895-04-15 Fanny George Robert Sims and Cecil Raleigh London Royal Strand Grace Dormer[30]
1895-04-15 The Backslider Osmond Shillingford London Royal Strand Mrs. Agatha Dolomite[31]
1895-06-27 Louis XI Dion Boucicault, adaptated by Saimir Delavigne London Lyceum Marie[32]
1895-07-12 The Lyons Mail Charles Reader, adaptation of Le Courrier de Lyon by Émile Moreau, Giraudin & Delacour London Lyceum Julie Lesurques[33]
1895-07-15 The Corsican Brothers Dion Boucicault, adaptation of Alexandre Dumas's The Corsican Brothers London Lyceum Emelie de l'Esparre[34]
1895-07-24 Macbeth William Shakespeare London Lyceum A gentlewoman[35]
1896-12-03 A Princess of Orange Fred James London Lyceum Louise, Princess of Orange[36]
1896-12-10 An Old Song Rev. Freeman Wills and A. Fitzmaurice King London Criterion Signora Sara Rosetti[37]
1897-12-23 Secret Service: A Romance of the Southern Confederacy William Gillette London Adelphi Edith Varney[38]
1898-12-03 Cupboard Love Henry V. Esmond London Court Rosamond Pilliner[39]
1899-06-06 The Heather Field Edward Martyn London Terry's Grace Tyrrell[40]
1899-09-04 The Last Chapter George H. Broadhurst London Royal Strand Katherine Blake[41]
1901-05-11 Toff Jim Fred Wright London Apollo Primrose[42]
1908-01-20 Irene Wycherley Anthony P. Wharton New York Astor Carrie Hardinge[43]
1910-03-01 The Sentimentalists George Meredith London Duke of York's Dame Dresden[44]
1910-03-10 The Madras House Harley Granville-Barker London Duke of York's Amelia Madras[45]
1910-04-05 Trelawny of the Wells Arthur Wing Pinero London Duke of York's Miss Trafalgar Gower[46]
1910-11-18 The Home Coming Cicely Hamilton London Aldwych Mrs. Daly[47]
1911-05-08 The First Actress Christabel Marshall London Kingsway Peg Woffington[48]
1911-05-12 The Baron’s Wager Charles Young London Playhouse Clothislde, Marquise de Marsay[49]
1912-02-01 The Bear-Leaders R. C. Carton London Comedy Dowager Countess of Grimsdal[50]
1912-02-09 Edith Elizabeth Baker London Princess's Mrs. Stott[51]
1912-08-12 Ready Money James Montgomery London New Mrs. John Tyler[52]
1913-03-31 A Matter of Money (first played in Glasgow under the title The Cutting of the Know) Cicely Hamilton London Little Mrs. Channing[53]
1913-03-11 Open Windows A.E.W. Mason London St. James's Lady Cluffe[54]
1913-10-04 The Grand Seigneur Edward Ferris and Bertram P. Matthews London Savoy Comtesse Malise[55]
1914-09-08 The Impossible Woman C. Haddon Chambers London Savoy Mrs. Talcot[56]
1915-04-15 The Green Flag Keble Howard London Vaudeville Mrs. Kesteven[57]
1915-10-16 Iris Intervenes John Hastings Turner London Kingsway Mary Cumbers[58]
1916-02-28 The Arm of the Law Arthur Bourchier, adapted from La Robe Rouge by Eugène Brieux London His Majesty's Mme. Vagret[59]
1916-05-28 The Eternal Snows Michael Orme [pseudonym of Alix Augusta Grein] London Criterion Mary Chartwell[60]
1917-04-09 The Passing of the Third Floor Back Jerome K. Jerome London Playhouse Cheat, Mrs. Sharpe, Lady of the House[61]
1917-07-27 Trelawny of the Wells Arthur W. Pinero London New Miss Trafalgar Gower[62]
1917-09-07 Trelawny of the Wells Arthur W. Pinero London New Miss Trafalgar Gower[63]
1922-03-01 The Enchanted Cottage Arthur Pinero London Duke of York's Mrs. Corsellis[64]
1922-03-24 Pride and Prejudice Eileen H.A. Squire & J.C. Squire, adapted from Jane Austen's novel London Palace Mrs. Bennett[65]
1922-05-18 Life's a Game Michael Orme [pseud. Alix Augusta Grein] London Kingsway Lady Raunds[66]
1922-12-04 Destruction Agnese de Llana London Royalty Ella Singleton[67]
1924-09-18 The Fool Channing Pollock London Apollo Mrs. Henry Gilliam[68]
1925-05-11 My Lady's Dress Edward Knblock London Adelphi La Grisa[69]
1925-06-22 March Hares (The Temperamentalists) Harry Wagstaff Gribble London Little Mrs. Janet Rodney[70]
1925-09-22 The Last of Mrs. Cheyney Frederick Lonsdale London St. James's Mrs. Ebley[71]
1927-12-27 Sylvia James Dyrenforth London Vaudeville Mrs. Considine[72]
1928-04-19 Come With Me Basil Dean and Margaret Kennedy London New Lady Alethea Zaidner[73]
1929-06-01 Sybarites H. Dennis Bradley London Arts Lady Byfleet[74]
1929-07-24 Gentlemen of the Jury Francis A. Campton London Arts Lady Blakeney[75]
1929-09-05 Dear Brutus J. M. Barrie London Playhouse Mrs. Coade[76]
1929-12-03 The Major Explains W.R. Walkes London Prince of Wales [unnamed role][77]
1929-12-03 The Amorists H. Dennis Bradley London Royalty Lady Byfleet[78]
1930-12-26 A Business Marriage Anonymous London Court Mrs. Mabley Jones[79]
1931-10-12 There's Always Juliet John Van Druten London Apollo Florence[80]
1931-10-12 There's Always Juliet John Van Druten New York Empire Florence[81]
1932-08-16 Behold, We Live John van Druten London St. James's Dame Frances Evers[82]
1932-10-02 Please Don’t Be Nervous Ann Stephenson London Shaftesbury Mother[83]
1933-08-08 In Vino Veritas Walter Hudd London Arts Oakley[84]
1933-08-08 The Long Christmas Dinner Thornton Wilder London Arts Mother Bayard[84]
1933-08-01 The Lake Dorothy Massingham (with Murray Macdonald) London Arts Mildred Surrege[85]
1933-08-01 The Lake Dorothy Massingham (with Murray Macdonald) London Westminster Mildred Surrege[86]
1933-11-29 Man Proposes Warren Chetham-Strode London Wyndham's Mary Railton[87]
1934-05-03 The Voysey Inheritance Harley Granville-Barker London Sadler's Wells Mrs. Voysey[88]
1934-06-14 Meeting At Night Marjorie Sharp London Globe Mrs. Crowborough[89]
1934-07-04 The Maitlands Ronald Mackenzie London Wyndham's May Maitland[90]
1934-11-08 It Happened To Adam David Boehm London Duke of York's Mrs. Sloane[91]
1935-03-11 Ringmaster Keith Winter London Shaftesbury Mrs. West[92]
1935-04-07 One Must Go On George Porter London Comedy Mrs. John Brown[93]
1935-05-31 Night Must Fall Emlyn Williams London Duchess Mrs. Bramson[94]
1935-12-01 Farm of Three Echoes Noel Langley London Wyndham's Ouma Gerart[95]
1936-09-28 Night Must Fall Emlyn Williams New York Ethel Barrymore Mrs. Bramson[94]
1938-01-10 Your Obedient Husband Horace Jackson New York Broadhurst Mrs. Scurlock[96]
1938-05-23 Here's To Our Enterprise Edward Knoblock London Lyceum [herself][97]
1940-05-09 Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare New York 51st Street Nurse to Juliet[98]
1941-04-08 The Trojan Women Euripides New York Cort Hecuba[99]
1945-10-09 Therese Thomas Job, based on Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola New York Biltmore Madame Raquin[100]

Filmography edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ L.H.J., "Histrionic Geography", The Stage (2 March 1893), p. 9.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Casson 2004.
  3. ^ Parker, pp. 869−870
  4. ^ Grimalkin, "Chit Chat", The Stage (4 August 1892), p. 11.
  5. ^ a b Nissen 2007.
  6. ^ Cheryl Law (2000). Women, A Modern Political Dictionary. I.B.Tauris. p. 156. ISBN 978-1-86064-502-0.
  7. ^ Looser, Devoney (2017). The Making of Jane Austen. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 106. ISBN 978-1421422824.
  8. ^ Gaye, p. 1579; and "War Honours", The Times, 8 January 1918, p. 7
  9. ^ Wearing 1976, p. 11.
  10. ^ Wearing 1976, p. 52.
  11. ^ Wearing 1976, p. 87.
  12. ^ Wearing 1976, p. 95.
  13. ^ Wearing 1976, p. 109.
  14. ^ Wearing 1976, p. 112.
  15. ^ Wearing 1976, p. 141.
  16. ^ Wearing 1976, p. 148.
  17. ^ Wearing 1976, p. 185.
  18. ^ Wearing 1976, p. 194-195.
  19. ^ Wearing 1976, p. 216.
  20. ^ Wearing 1976, p. 221.
  21. ^ Wearing 1976, p. 222.
  22. ^ Wearing 1976, p. 250.
  23. ^ Wearing 1976, p. 284.
  24. ^ Wearing 1976, p. 288.
  25. ^ Wearing 1976, p. 319.
  26. ^ Wearing 1976, p. 341.
  27. ^ Wearing 1976, p. 367.
  28. ^ Wearing 1976, p. 413.
  29. ^ Wearing 1976, p. 463.
  30. ^ Wearing 1976, p. 468.
  31. ^ Wearing 1976, p. 469.
  32. ^ Wearing 1976, p. 492-493.
  33. ^ Wearing 1976, p. 499-500.
  34. ^ Wearing 1976, p. 500.
  35. ^ Wearing 1976, p. 502.
  36. ^ Wearing 1976, p. 614.
  37. ^ Wearing 1976, p. 618.
  38. ^ Wearing 1976, p. 708-709.
  39. ^ Wearing 1976, p. 773.
  40. ^ Wearing 1976, p. 811.
  41. ^ Wearing 1976, p. 827.
  42. ^ Wearing 1981, p. 91.
  43. ^ Wearing 1981, p. 597.
  44. ^ Wearing 1982, p. 13.
  45. ^ Wearing 1982, p. 14.
  46. ^ Wearing 1982, p. 16.
  47. ^ Wearing 1982, p. 85.
  48. ^ Wearing 1982, p. 130.
  49. ^ Wearing 1982, p. 132.
  50. ^ Wearing 1982, p. 207-208.
  51. ^ Wearing 1982, p. 211.
  52. ^ Wearing 1982, p. 273.
  53. ^ Wearing 1982, p. 313.
  54. ^ Wearing 1982, p. 323.
  55. ^ Wearing 1982, p. 389.
  56. ^ Wearing 1982, p. 489.
  57. ^ Wearing 1982, p. 562.
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  61. ^ Wearing 1982, p. 715.
  62. ^ Wearing 1982, p. 740.
  63. ^ Wearing 1982, p. 743-744.
  64. ^ Wearing 1984, p. 249.
  65. ^ Wearing 1984, p. 258.
  66. ^ Wearing 1984, p. 277.
  67. ^ Wearing 1984, p. 328.
  68. ^ Wearing 1984, p. 531-532.
  69. ^ Wearing 1984, p. 604.
  70. ^ Wearing 1984, p. 623.
  71. ^ Wearing 1984, p. 645.
  72. ^ Wearing 1984, p. 933-934.
  73. ^ Wearing 1984, p. 985.
  74. ^ Wearing 1984, p. 1141.
  75. ^ Wearing 1984, p. 1169.
  76. ^ Wearing 1984, p. 1175.
  77. ^ Wearing 1984, p. 1210.
  78. ^ Wearing 1984, p. 1210-1211.
  79. ^ Wearing 1990, p. 127-128.
  80. ^ Wearing 1990, p. 250.
  81. ^ "There's Always Juliet". IBDB.com. Internet Broadway Database.
  82. ^ Wearing 1990, p. 364.
  83. ^ Wearing 1990, p. 377.
  84. ^ a b Wearing 1990, p. 425.
  85. ^ Wearing 1990, p. 442.
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  92. ^ Wearing 1990, p. 701.
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  94. ^ a b Wearing 1990, p. 731.
  95. ^ Wearing 1990, p. 801.
  96. ^ "Your Obedient Husband". IBDB.com. Internet Broadway Database.
  97. ^ Wearing 1990, p. 1124.
  98. ^ "Romeo and Juliet". IBDB.com. Internet Broadway Database.
  99. ^ "The Trojan Women". IBDB.com. Internet Broadway Database.
  100. ^ "Therese Raquin". IBDB.com. Internet Broadway Database.

Works consulted edit

  • Casson, Lewis (2004). "Webster, Benjamin (1864–1947)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/36806. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8.
  • Gaye, Freda, ed. (1967). Who's Who in the Theatre (fourteenth ed.). London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons. OCLC 5997224.
  • Nissen, Axel (2007). Actresses of a Certain Character: forty familiar Hollywood faces from the thirties to the fifties. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co. p. 209. ISBN 978-0786427468.
  • Parker, John, ed. (1922). Who's Who in the Theatre (fourth ed.). London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons. OCLC 473894893.
  • Wearing, J.P. (1976). The London Stage, 1890–1899: a Calendar of Plays and Players. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810809109.
  • Wearing, J.P. (1981). The London Stage, 1900–1909: a Calendar of Plays and Players. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810814035.
  • Wearing, J.P. (1982). The London Stage, 1910–1919: a Calendar of Plays and Players. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810815964.
  • Wearing, J.P. (1984). The London Stage, 1920–1929: a Calendar of Plays and Players. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810817159.
  • Wearing, J.P. (1990). The London Stage, 1930–1939: a Calendar of Plays and Players. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810823495.

Further reading edit

  • Alistair, Rupert (2018). "May Whitty". The Name Below the Title: 65 Classic Movie Character Actors from Hollywood's Golden Age (softcover) (first ed.). Great Britain: independently published. pp. 252–254. ISBN 978-1-7200-3837-5.

External links edit

 
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January 01, 1970
whitty, dame, mary, louise, webster, née, whitty, june, 1865, 1948, known, professionally, later, charity, work, dame, english, stage, film, actress, first, women, entertainers, become, dame, british, actors, union, equity, established, home, 1930, damedbeborn. Dame Mary Louise Webster DBE nee Whitty 19 June 1865 29 May 1948 known professionally as May Whitty and later for her charity work Dame May Whitty was an English stage and film actress She was one of the first two women entertainers to become a Dame The British actors union Equity was established in her home in 1930 DameMay WhittyDBEBornMary Louise Whitty 1865 06 19 19 June 1865Liverpool Lancashire EnglandDied29 May 1948 1948 05 29 aged 82 Beverly Hills California U S OccupationActressYears active1881 1948SpouseBen Webster m 1892 died 1947 wbr Children2 including Margaret Her film roles included Alfred Hitchcock s thriller The Lady Vanishes 1938 in which she played Miss Froy a British spy posing as a governess who disappears on a train After a successful career both on the West End stage and in British films she moved over to Hollywood films at the age of 72 Contents 1 Background 2 Honours 3 Film career and death 4 Stage roles 5 Filmography 6 See also 7 References 8 Works consulted 9 Further reading 10 External linksBackground editWhitty was born in Liverpool England to William Alfred Whitty circa 1837 1876 a newspaper proprietor 1 and Mary Louisa nee Ashton circa 1837 1894 Her grandfather was Michael James Whitty Chief Constable in Liverpool and founder of the Liverpool Daily Post 2 She made her first stage appearance in Liverpool in 1881 later moving to London to appear in the West End 3 She married the actor manager Ben Webster on 3 August 1892 in St Giles s Parish Church London 4 In 1895 they visited the United States where Whitty appeared on Broadway Their first child a son died at birth Their only surviving child a daughter born in New York in 1905 Margaret Webster was a producer who held dual US and UK citizenship She was chair of the Actresses Franchise League AFL 2 Whitty s stage career continued for the rest of her life In March 1910 she made her transition to middle aged and elderly character roles playing Amelia Madras in Harley Granville Barker s four act comedy The Madras House 5 During World War I she was active in the AFL working there to help organize the Women s Emergency Corps 6 In March 1922 she played the role of Mrs Bennet before the Queen in a benefit performance of Pride and Prejudice She acted opposite her husband who played Mr Darcy 7 Honours editIn the 1918 New Year Honours she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire DBE gazetted under her legal married name Mary Louise Webster in recognition of her charitable work during the First World War for the Three Arts Women s Employment Fund and the British Women s Hospitals Committee 2 She was the first stage and film actress to receive a damehood along with the opera singer Nellie Melba who was also thus honoured in 1918 8 Film career and death editI ve got everything Betty Grable has I ve just had it longer 5 Whitty made her Hollywood film debut at the age of 72 recreating her 1935 stage role in the Hollywood film Night Must Fall 1937 which also starred Robert Montgomery and Rosalind Russell She received an Oscar nomination This led to several supporting roles in films including that of the vanishing lady Miss Froy in Alfred Hitchcock s The Lady Vanishes 1938 2 In 1939 Whitty permanently moved to the United States although she never became a US citizen and appeared both on stage and in Hollywood films usually playing wealthy dowagers It was one such part as Lady Beldon in Mrs Miniver 1942 that brought her a second Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress 2 She continued to act for the remainder of her life and died on 29 May 1948 in Beverly Hills California from cancer at the age of 82 2 her husband had died the previous year during surgery She is commemorated with a plaque at St Paul s parish church in Covent Garden London alongside the plaque to her husband Stage roles editDates are of the first performance Date year month day Title Author s City Theatre Role 1890 02 14 The Home Feud Walter Frith London Comedy Helen Joliffe 9 1890 07 04 Vanity of Vanities Justin Huntly McCarthy London Shaftesbury Princess Nicholas 10 1891 01 07 Private Enquiry F C Burnand based on Albert Valabregue s La Securite des Familles London Royal Strand Mrs Buckleigh 11 1891 02 14 Turned Up Mark Melford London Royal Strand Sabina Medway 12 1891 04 01 Linda Grey Sir Charles L Young London Princes Lady Broughton 13 1891 04 15 Our Daughters T G Warren amp Willie Edouin London Royal Strand Nellie Mayhew 14 1891 07 01 Mrs Annesley J F Cooke London Criterion Estelle Brandreth 15 1891 07 27 Fate and Fortune or The Junior Partner James J Blood London Princess s Grace Hasluck 16 1892 01 06 The Showman s Daughter Frances Hodgson Burnett London Royalty Linda Hurst 17 1892 02 16 The Silver Shield Sydney Grundy London Vaudeville Lucy Preston 18 1892 05 10 A Caprice Justin Huntly McCarthy adapted from Alfred de Musset s Un Caprice London Vaudeville Mathilde 19 1892 05 25 The Noble Art Eille Norwood London Terry s Gertie Fullalove 20 1892 05 26 In the Season Langdon Elwyn Mitchell London Vaudeville Sybil March 21 1892 09 14 Our Boys Henry James Byron London Vaudeville Mary Melrose 22 1893 01 28 The Guv Nor Robert Reece writing under the pseudonym E G Lankester London Vaudeville Aurelia 23 1893 02 16 Flight Walter Frith London Terry s Mrs Amherst 24 1893 06 09 The Younger Son R S Sievier London Gaiety Evelyn Brookfield 25 1893 06 19 The Adventures of a Night Meyrick Milton adaptated from Los Empenos de Seis Horas by Pedro Calderon de la Barca London Royal Strand Donna Bianca 26 1893 12 21 Beauty s Toils Charles S Fawcett founded on Her Fatal Beauty by W B Maxell London Royal Strand Ethel Cumming 27 1894 07 02 Our Flot Mrs H Musgrave London Royal Strand Margery Sylvester 28 1895 03 12 A Loving Legacy Fred W Sidney London Royal Strand Kitty O Rourke 29 1895 04 15 Fanny George Robert Sims and Cecil Raleigh London Royal Strand Grace Dormer 30 1895 04 15 The Backslider Osmond Shillingford London Royal Strand Mrs Agatha Dolomite 31 1895 06 27 Louis XI Dion Boucicault adaptated by Saimir Delavigne London Lyceum Marie 32 1895 07 12 The Lyons Mail Charles Reader adaptation of Le Courrier de Lyon by Emile Moreau Giraudin amp Delacour London Lyceum Julie Lesurques 33 1895 07 15 The Corsican Brothers Dion Boucicault adaptation of Alexandre Dumas s The Corsican Brothers London Lyceum Emelie de l Esparre 34 1895 07 24 Macbeth William Shakespeare London Lyceum A gentlewoman 35 1896 12 03 A Princess of Orange Fred James London Lyceum Louise Princess of Orange 36 1896 12 10 An Old Song Rev Freeman Wills and A Fitzmaurice King London Criterion Signora Sara Rosetti 37 1897 12 23 Secret Service A Romance of the Southern Confederacy William Gillette London Adelphi Edith Varney 38 1898 12 03 Cupboard Love Henry V Esmond London Court Rosamond Pilliner 39 1899 06 06 The Heather Field Edward Martyn London Terry s Grace Tyrrell 40 1899 09 04 The Last Chapter George H Broadhurst London Royal Strand Katherine Blake 41 1901 05 11 Toff Jim Fred Wright London Apollo Primrose 42 1908 01 20 Irene Wycherley Anthony P Wharton New York Astor Carrie Hardinge 43 1910 03 01 The Sentimentalists George Meredith London Duke of York s Dame Dresden 44 1910 03 10 The Madras House Harley Granville Barker London Duke of York s Amelia Madras 45 1910 04 05 Trelawny of the Wells Arthur Wing Pinero London Duke of York s Miss Trafalgar Gower 46 1910 11 18 The Home Coming Cicely Hamilton London Aldwych Mrs Daly 47 1911 05 08 The First Actress Christabel Marshall London Kingsway Peg Woffington 48 1911 05 12 The Baron s Wager Charles Young London Playhouse Clothislde Marquise de Marsay 49 1912 02 01 The Bear Leaders R C Carton London Comedy Dowager Countess of Grimsdal 50 1912 02 09 Edith Elizabeth Baker London Princess s Mrs Stott 51 1912 08 12 Ready Money James Montgomery London New Mrs John Tyler 52 1913 03 31 A Matter of Money first played in Glasgow under the title The Cutting of the Know Cicely Hamilton London Little Mrs Channing 53 1913 03 11 Open Windows A E W Mason London St James s Lady Cluffe 54 1913 10 04 The Grand Seigneur Edward Ferris and Bertram P Matthews London Savoy Comtesse Malise 55 1914 09 08 The Impossible Woman C Haddon Chambers London Savoy Mrs Talcot 56 1915 04 15 The Green Flag Keble Howard London Vaudeville Mrs Kesteven 57 1915 10 16 Iris Intervenes John Hastings Turner London Kingsway Mary Cumbers 58 1916 02 28 The Arm of the Law Arthur Bourchier adapted from La Robe Rouge by Eugene Brieux London His Majesty s Mme Vagret 59 1916 05 28 The Eternal Snows Michael Orme pseudonym of Alix Augusta Grein London Criterion Mary Chartwell 60 1917 04 09 The Passing of the Third Floor Back Jerome K Jerome London Playhouse Cheat Mrs Sharpe Lady of the House 61 1917 07 27 Trelawny of the Wells Arthur W Pinero London New Miss Trafalgar Gower 62 1917 09 07 Trelawny of the Wells Arthur W Pinero London New Miss Trafalgar Gower 63 1922 03 01 The Enchanted Cottage Arthur Pinero London Duke of York s Mrs Corsellis 64 1922 03 24 Pride and Prejudice Eileen H A Squire amp J C Squire adapted from Jane Austen s novel London Palace Mrs Bennett 65 1922 05 18 Life s a Game Michael Orme pseud Alix Augusta Grein London Kingsway Lady Raunds 66 1922 12 04 Destruction Agnese de Llana London Royalty Ella Singleton 67 1924 09 18 The Fool Channing Pollock London Apollo Mrs Henry Gilliam 68 1925 05 11 My Lady s Dress Edward Knblock London Adelphi La Grisa 69 1925 06 22 March Hares The Temperamentalists Harry Wagstaff Gribble London Little Mrs Janet Rodney 70 1925 09 22 The Last of Mrs Cheyney Frederick Lonsdale London St James s Mrs Ebley 71 1927 12 27 Sylvia James Dyrenforth London Vaudeville Mrs Considine 72 1928 04 19 Come With Me Basil Dean and Margaret Kennedy London New Lady Alethea Zaidner 73 1929 06 01 Sybarites H Dennis Bradley London Arts Lady Byfleet 74 1929 07 24 Gentlemen of the Jury Francis A Campton London Arts Lady Blakeney 75 1929 09 05 Dear Brutus J M Barrie London Playhouse Mrs Coade 76 1929 12 03 The Major Explains W R Walkes London Prince of Wales unnamed role 77 1929 12 03 The Amorists H Dennis Bradley London Royalty Lady Byfleet 78 1930 12 26 A Business Marriage Anonymous London Court Mrs Mabley Jones 79 1931 10 12 There s Always Juliet John Van Druten London Apollo Florence 80 1931 10 12 There s Always Juliet John Van Druten New York Empire Florence 81 1932 08 16 Behold We Live John van Druten London St James s Dame Frances Evers 82 1932 10 02 Please Don t Be Nervous Ann Stephenson London Shaftesbury Mother 83 1933 08 08 In Vino Veritas Walter Hudd London Arts Oakley 84 1933 08 08 The Long Christmas Dinner Thornton Wilder London Arts Mother Bayard 84 1933 08 01 The Lake Dorothy Massingham with Murray Macdonald London Arts Mildred Surrege 85 1933 08 01 The Lake Dorothy Massingham with Murray Macdonald London Westminster Mildred Surrege 86 1933 11 29 Man Proposes Warren Chetham Strode London Wyndham s Mary Railton 87 1934 05 03 The Voysey Inheritance Harley Granville Barker London Sadler s Wells Mrs Voysey 88 1934 06 14 Meeting At Night Marjorie Sharp London Globe Mrs Crowborough 89 1934 07 04 The Maitlands Ronald Mackenzie London Wyndham s May Maitland 90 1934 11 08 It Happened To Adam David Boehm London Duke of York s Mrs Sloane 91 1935 03 11 Ringmaster Keith Winter London Shaftesbury Mrs West 92 1935 04 07 One Must Go On George Porter London Comedy Mrs John Brown 93 1935 05 31 Night Must Fall Emlyn Williams London Duchess Mrs Bramson 94 1935 12 01 Farm of Three Echoes Noel Langley London Wyndham s Ouma Gerart 95 1936 09 28 Night Must Fall Emlyn Williams New York Ethel Barrymore Mrs Bramson 94 1938 01 10 Your Obedient Husband Horace Jackson New York Broadhurst Mrs Scurlock 96 1938 05 23 Here s To Our Enterprise Edward Knoblock London Lyceum herself 97 1940 05 09 Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare New York 51st Street Nurse to Juliet 98 1941 04 08 The Trojan Women Euripides New York Cort Hecuba 99 1945 10 09 Therese Thomas Job based on Therese Raquin by Emile Zola New York Biltmore Madame Raquin 100 Filmography editThis section does not cite any sources Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed June 2020 Learn how and when to remove this template message Enoch Arden 1914 as Miriam Lane The Little Minister 1915 as Nanny Webster Colonel Newcombe the Perfect Gentleman 1920 as Mrs Mackenzie Keep Your Seats Please 1936 as Aunt Georgina Withers uncredited Night Must Fall 1937 as Mrs Bramson Conquest 1937 as Maria Letizia Buonaparte I Met My Love Again 1938 as Aunt William Parnell 1938 TV movie as Aunt Caroline The Lady Vanishes 1938 as Miss Froy Mary Rose 1939 TV movie as Mrs Morland The Royal Family of Broadway 1939 TV movie as Fanny Cavendis Rake s Progress 1939 TV movie as Mrs Mead Wilkes s mother in law Raffles 1939 as Lady Melrose Return to Yesterday 1940 as Mrs Truscott A Bill of Divorcement 1940 as Aunt Hester Fairfield One Night in Lisbon 1941 as Florence Suspicion 1941 as Mrs Martha McLaidlaw Mrs Miniver 1942 as Lady Beldon Thunder Birds 1942 as Lady Jane Stackhouse Forever and a Day 1943 as Mrs Lucy Trimble Slightly Dangerous 1943 as Baba Crash Dive 1943 as Grandmother The Constant Nymph 1943 as Lady Constance Longborough Stage Door Canteen 1943 as herself Lassie Come Home 1943 as Dally Flesh and Fantasy 1943 as Lady Pamela Hardwick Episode 2 Madame Curie 1943 as Madame Eugene Curie Gaslight 1944 as Miss Bessie Thwaites The White Cliffs of Dover 1944 as Nanny My Name Is Julia Ross 1945 as Mrs Hughes Devotion 1946 as Lady Thornton Green Dolphin Street 1947 as Mother Superior This Time for Keeps 1947 as Grandmother Cambaretti If Winter Comes 1947 as Mrs Perch The Sign of the Ram 1948 as Clara Brastock The Return of October 1948 as Aunt Martha Grant final film role See also edit nbsp Biography portal List of actors with Academy Award nominationsReferences edit L H J Histrionic Geography The Stage 2 March 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