Cathleen Nesbitt
Cathleen Nesbitt (* November 24, 1888 in Cheshire, England, United Kingdom, † August 2, 1982 in London, England, United Kingdom) was a British actress of Welsh and Irish descent.
Life
Cathleen Nesbitt was educated in France. Thereafter, she attended the Queen's University of Belfast and studied at the Sorbonne in Paris, France.
On the London stage, she was first seen in 1910 in the revival of Pinero The Cabinet Minister. Afterwards, she starred in another theater plays. 1911 Nesbitt was a member of the Irish player and went to the United States, where she made her Broadway debut in The Well of the Saints. With the Irish player she played John Millington Synge in The Playboy of the Western World. The actors were thrown from the predominantly Catholic, Irish-American audience with vegetables and fruit.
It was 1912, the love affair of the English poet Rupert Brooke, who dedicated her many love poems. When Brooke died in the First World War, he and Nesbitt were engaged and wanted to marry her. Her film debut was in 1919 in A Star Overnight. They also played 1922 in The Faithful Heart. By 1930 it was no longer seen in films until she landed the role of Anne Lymes in Canaries Sometimes Sing, one of the first sound films. In 1938, she starred in the film adaptation of Pygmalion with.
Nesbitt's first Hollywood movie Three Coins in the Fountain was (1954 ) in which she played the character role of "La Principessa ". This is then followed in the same year Black Widow and 1957 An Affair to Remember. She also appeared in The Parent Trap (1961) and Promise Her Anything (1965). 1972 and 1973 she starred in two episodes of The house in Eaton Place. 1974 Nesbitt won an Emmy Award for her role in the drama Staircase. More Hollywood and television productions have included Hitchcock's Family Plot (1976) and Julia (1977).
Cathleen Nesbitt was married from 1920 until her death in 1982 with the actor Cecil Ramage. At this time, however, she already lived several years apart. They had two children. Nesbitt lived a long time in the United States and also thought about it, to take the American citizenship. Finally, she returned to Britain, where she was beaten to the Commander of the British Empire.
Her autobiography A Little Love and Good Company was released in 1973.
After a career that lasted over 80 years, one of the longest in show business, Cathleen Nesbitt died at the age of 93 years in London.