Frieda Inescort
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Frieda Inescort (born Frieda Wrightman, 29 June 1901 – 26 February 1976) was a Scottish-born actress best known for creating the role of Sorel Bliss in Noël Coward's play Hay Fever on Broadway. She also played the shingled lady in John Galsworthy's 1927 Broadway production Escape. Inescort's acting debut came in The Truth About Blayds (1922), which was presented at the Booth Theatre on Broadway. Her other Broadway credits include You and I (1923), The Woman on the Jury (1923), Windows (1923), The Fake (1924), Ariadne (1925), Hay Fever (1925), Love in a Mist (1926), Mozart (1926), Trelawny of the "Wells" (1927), Escape (1927-1928), Napi (1931), Company's Coming (1931), Springtime for Henry (1931-1932), When Ladies Meet (1933), False Dreams, Farewell (1934), Lady Jane (1934), Soldier's Wife (1944-1945), The Mermaids Singing (1945-1946) and You Never Can Tell (1948). Frieda Wrightman adopted her mother's surname as her professional name and moved to Hollywood and made her film debut in The Dark Angel (1935). Her other films include Mary of Scotland (1936), The Letter (1940), The Trial of Mary Dugan (1941), You'll Never Get Rich (1941) and A Place in the Sun (1951). She appeared with Laurence Olivier and Greer Garson as the conniving Caroline Bingley in the 1940 film version of Pride and Prejudice. She had a leading role in Call It A Day, a 1937 film in which she appeared with Olivia de Havilland, Bonita Granville, Roland Young, and Ian Hunter. She appeared in at least one episode of Perry Mason, as Hope Quentin in "The Case of the Jealous Journalist" (season 5, 1961). Description above from the Wikipedia article Frieda Inescort, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Credits
Pride and Prejudice (1940)
as Miss Caroline Bingley
A Place in the Sun (1951)
as Mrs. Ann Vickers
The Letter (1940)
as Dorothy Joyce
The Eddy Duchin Story (1956)
as Edith Wadsworth
Mary of Scotland (1936)
as Mary Beaton
You'll Never Get Rich (1941)
as Mrs. Julia Cortland
Another Dawn (1937)
as Grace Roark
The Alligator People (1959)
as Mrs. Lavinia Hawthorne
The Return of the Vampire (1943)
as Lady Jane Ainsley
Casanova's Big Night (1954)
as Signora Di Gambetta
Tarzan Finds a Son! (1939)
as Mrs. Lancing
The Crowded Sky (1960)
as Mrs. Mitchell
Remember the Day (1941)
as Mrs. Dewey Roberts
Woman Doctor (1939)
as Dr. Judith Randall Graeme
Sweater Girl (1942)
as Mrs. Menard
The Dark Angel (1935)
as Ann West
The She-Creature (1956)
as Mrs. Chappel
The Great O'Malley (1937)
as Mrs. Philips
Foxfire (1955)
as Mrs. Lawrence
If You Could Only Cook (1935)
as Evelyn Fletcher
Hollywood Boulevard (1936)
as Alice Winslow
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday (1943)
as Karen Holliday
The Underworld Story (1950)
as Mrs. Eldridge
Mission to Moscow (1943)
as Madame Molotov (uncredited)
Call It a Day (1937)
as Dorothy Hilton
The Judge Steps Out (1947)
as Evelyn Bailey
Heavenly Days (1944)
as Ettie Clark
The Courtship of Andy Hardy (1942)
as Olivia Nesbit
Convicted Woman (1940)
as Attorney Mary Ellis
Never Wave at a WAC (1953)
as Lily Mae Gorham
The King Steps Out (1936)
as Princess Helena
Street of Chance (1942)
as Alma Diedrich
Give Me Your Heart (1936)
as Rosamond Melford
Flame of the Islands (1955)
as Evelyn Hammond
Father's Son (1941)
as Ruth Emory
A Woman is the Judge (1939)
as Mary Cabot
The Garden Murder Case (1936)
as Mrs. Madge Fenwicke-Ralston
Shadows on the Stairs (1941)
as Mrs. Stella Rosabelle Armitage
The Zero Hour (1939)
as Linda Marsh
Beauty for the Asking (1939)
as Flora Barton-Williams
Why We Fight: The Battle of Britain (1943)
as Narrator
Sunny (1941)
as Elizabeth Warren
Senior Prom (1958)
as Mrs. Sherridan
Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6 (1942)
Actor
Juke Box Rhythm (1959)
as Aunt Margaret
The Trial of Mary Dugan (1941)
as Mrs. Wayne
It Comes Up Love (1943)
as Portia Winthrop
Portia on Trial (1937)
as Portia Merriman