Lucile Watson
Lucile Watson ( born May 27, 1879 in Québec City, Québec, Canada, † June 24, 1962 in New York City, New York, United States) was a Canadian film and theater actress.
Life
Lucile Watson - her first name is itself incorrectly in some film credits with Lucille - grew up in New York, where she graduated from the Academy of Dramatic Arts as a young woman. Her first stage commitment she received in 1902 in the play The Wisdom of the Wise. In 1909 she managed in The City the leap to Broadway. Watson counted until the early 1940s to the ranks of the popular theater actor. They participated in performances of The Importance of Being Earnest and Pride and Prejudice among others.
After a little performer in the silent film The Girl with the Green Eyes from 1916, and another walk-on role in The Royal Family of Broadway - produced in 1930 - it was only in 1934 in The Inventors again in front of the camera. In her 45 film roles Watson played mostly supporting roles, often as a mother or mother of the heroine. Her most famous film was Watch on the Rhine, for which she was nominated for the Academy Awards 1944 Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. Watson had played their part in 1941 in 378 performances of the same play by Lillian Hellman on Broadway. The play by Lillian Hellman won the New York Drama Critics ' Circle Award.
Lucile Watson stood until 1954 before the camera, and then retired into private life. She was married twice. Her first marriage to Canadian actor Rockliffe Fellowes, whom she had married in 1910, was short-lived, and was soon divorced them. His second wife she was married from 1926 to 1933 with Louis Evan Shipman. Lucile Watson had no children.