Katherine Squire
Katherine Squire ( born March 9, 1903 in Defiance, Ohio, † March 29, 1995 in Lake Hill, New York) was an American theater and film actress.
Life
Katherine Squire was born in 1903 in Defiance, Ohio. After graduating from Ohio Wesleyan College, she studied acting at the American Laboratory Theatre and was first appointed to the Cleveland Playhouse. In 1927, she was with a small role in William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing her debut on Broadway, where she performed several times until the 1950s. But over the years they played mainly at regional theaters, including the Tyrone Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis or the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven. In the early 1980s she also played at New York's Roundabout Theatre in Ibsen's Hedda Gabler at the side of main actress Susannah York.
From 1952 she had often stood in front of the television camera, such as the television series Mike Hammer (1958 ), Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1960 ) or People of the Virginian ( The Virginian, 1962). In 1959 she had Clifford Odets in courtroom drama sensation on page 1 ( The Story on Page One) her first screen appearance as a caring mother of Rita Hayworth. This was followed by small roles in films such as Days of Wine and Roses ( Days of Wine and Roses, 1962) and asphalt racing ( Two - Lane Blacktop, 1971). Most recently, she was in Rob Reiner's romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally ( When Harry met Sally ..., 1989) can be seen as an elderly woman interviewed the couple.
In her first marriage, she was married to her castmates Byron McGrath. In 1940 she married the actor George Mitchell, who brought three daughters into the marriage and with whom she shared was several times on the stage and in front of the camera. Up to Mitchell's death in 1972, they lived together in Nyack, Rockland County. Katherine Squire died in 1995 at the age of 92 years in Lake Hill, New York.