Laura Hope Crews
Laura Hope Crews ( born December 12, 1879 in San Francisco, † November 12, 1942 in New York ) was an American actress.
Life
Laura Hope Crews was born as the daughter of an actress and a carpenter in San Francisco. Crews began her stage career at the age of four. Her greatest stage successes counted The Silver Cord by Sidney Howard, a drama in which crews played a dominant mother. In the film version of the play she repeated beside Irene Dunne and Joel McCrea their representation. In the following years, crews worked among other things beside Greta Garbo in The Lady of the Camellias and Marlene Dietrich in Ernst Lubitsch's Angel with. Your still most famous role was in 1939 as Gone with eccentric aunt Pittypat in the Wind. Overall, she turned 39 films. In the last few months before her death in 1942, she played on Broadway in Arsenic and Old Lace.
Her grave is located in Cypress Lawn Memorial Park in Colma, California. Laura Hope Crews has a star on the Walk of Fame.