Coral Browne
Coral Browne ( born July 23, 1913 in Melbourne, † 29 May 1991, Los Angeles ) was an Australian- American stage and film actress.
Life and work
Already with 18 years of Coral Browne had her first appearance on an Australian theater stage, then went to London at age 23 to initially pursue a career as a stage actress in both classical and modern roles. They played at the London houses ( Savoy Theatre, Old Vic, beach Theatre, Theatre Royal Haymarket, Piccadilly Theatre ) and in Blackpool, Bristol, Brighton, Oxford and Birmingham. Among other things, she was seen in the great English dramas of Shakespeare such as Macbeth, King Lear and Othello.
Her first screen appearance was Browne 1935 in Charing Cross Road. There followed over the next 54 years a total of 29 more movies of all genres as well as numerous television appearances. Memorable were especially her performances in Robert Aldrich movies The Killing of Sister George as Mercy Croft, the evil rival of the heroine, and even cutting in Big Lie Lylah Clare as physically impaired film critic Molly Luther.
During the filming of the horror comedy theater of horror ( Theatre of Blood, GB 1973) she met American actor Vincent Price to know who lived in these years, especially in London, and whom she married on October 24, 1974. Your previous husband, Philip Pearman was ten years earlier died after 14 years of marriage with cancer. The couple Browne -Price was henceforth regarded as one of "the " great loves in the theater world. Together with her husband stood Browne, among others, in Charley's Aunt and Ardele on stage and frequently appeared on television.
At the beginning of the 1980s attracted Coral Browne and Vincent Price to Los Angeles and lived in a house there on Swallow Drive. Browne was, but no longer seen only on the big screen and the screen on the stage. They aired it out on aged Alice Liddell in the fantasy drama The Real Life of Alice in Wonderland ( Dream Child, USA, 1985), for which she was honored in 1986 with the Saturn Award for Best Actress.
1987 Coral Browne received the U.S. citizenship, which she accepted, above all, to give pleasure to Price. Price " revenge " is by accepting their faith and converted to the Roman Catholic Church.
Coral Browne's last film was a canvas documentary about her own person: Coral Browne: Caviar for the General, again at her husband's side of Vincent Price.
During this filming Browne was already seriously ill with cancer. Vincent Price she used self-sacrificing in the house on Swallow Drive, but fate could not stop: Coral Browne died after a long illness on 29 May 1991 A memorial service was held on September 5, 1991 in Farmers Church in London, . Vincent Price could not come to this celebration - he was suffering now severely under the same cancer, where his wife had died shortly before. His final message to Coral Browne leaving John Schlesinger.