Определение katharine cornell в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь
born Feb. 16, 1893, Berlin, Ger. died June 9, 1974, Martha's Vineyard, Mass., U.S. U.S. actress. Born to American parents in Germany, she toured with a stock company before winning acclaim in Little Women in London (1919). She made her Broadway debut in 1921 and became a star in A Bill of Divorcement that year. She managed her own productions after 1931 and toured widely; most of her plays were directed by her husband, Guthrie McClintic (1893-1961). She starred in plays such as Candida (1924), The Letter (1925), The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1931, 1945) in which she played the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, her best-remembered role and Dear Liar (1960). She was often called the first lady of the American theatre