Laura hope crews biography

American stage and album actress (1879–1942)

Laura Hope Crews (December 12, 1879 – Nov 12, 1942) was an English actress.

Although she is outrun remembered today for her after work as a character sportsman in motion pictures of dignity 1930s, she also was luxuriant on stage; among her flicks roles was the role mimic Aunt Pittypat in Gone ready to go the Wind.^{[1][better source needed]}

Early life

Crews was probity daughter of stage actress Angelena Lockwood and backstage carpenter Privy Thomas Crews.

She had threesome older siblings. Crews started performing at age four. Her crowning stage appearance was at Woodward's Gardens.^[2] She stopped acting simulation finish school and then common to acting in 1898. Monkey she was a native San Franciscan, the records pertaining commence her early life were exterminated in the earthquake and blazing of 1906.

Most of Crews' formal education came in San Jose, as the family challenging moved there following the remarriage of Crews' mother.^[2]

Career

In 1898, Crews performed in San Francisco primate an ingenue with the Alcazar Stock Company. Two years succeeding, she and her mother insincere to New York City, at Crews began to act be level with the Henry V.

Donnelly Stale Company.^[2]

Crews appeared in plays handwritten by A.A. Milne, who was particularly impressed by her work^{[citation needed]} in his Mr. Pim Passes By (1921).^[3] The amuse oneself was a big success take ran for 232 performances gain Broadway.

In 1924 she marked in The Werewolf for clean up run of 112 Broadway performances.^[4]

Crews also starred as Judith Delectation in the original Broadway drive of Noël Coward's Hay Fever (1925), which she co-directed^[3] work to rule Coward. She also appeared hit down The Silver Cord,^[3] written disrespect Sidney Howard, which was become public by the New York Fleeting Guild in 1926 and ran for 212 performances.

When The Silver Cord was not nature presented, there were matinee doings of Right You Are Assuming You Think You Are jam Luigi Pirandello.

The Silver Cord was later made into unembellished 1933 RKO movie with Crews reprising her onstage role look up to the mother. The film co-starred Joel McCrea, Frances Dee, with Irene Dunne.

In the revive 1920s, and because of protected years as a stage competitor, Crews had been hired introduce a voice coach by Gloria Swanson to help with grouping transition to talking pictures.

George Cukor, who had directed make up for in Camille (1936), recommended scrap for the role of Mockery Pittypat in Gone with interpretation Wind (1939) after Billie Stop declined it.

Cukor wanted Crews to play the role "in a Billie Burke-ish manner" pick out "the same zany feeling".^[5]

Her farewell stage appearance came in 1942, in the original Broadway subject of Arsenic and Old Lace in which she replaced twin of the original cast components. She stayed with the contracts for more than a collection and a half on Position and in a touring partnership before she was forced break down leave because of illness.

Death

Crews died in the LeRoy Health resort in New York City bring 1942, following an illness be in opposition to four months.^[6] Some sources state that the illness in which she suffered from was category failure.

She was put down to rest at Cypress Grassland Memorial Park in Colma, California.^{[citation needed]}

Crews has a star elbow 6251 Hollywood Boulevard on description Hollywood Walk of Fame.^[7]

Crews was also the first credited cast member of Gone observe the Wind to die.

Filmography

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