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as Aunt Margaret

1959
The Eddy Duchin Story

as Edith Wadsworth

1956
The She-Creature

as Mrs. Chappel

1956
Foxfire

as Mrs. Lawrence

1955
Flame of the Islands

as Evelyn Hammond

1955
A Place in the Sun

as Mrs. Ann Vickers

1951
The Underworld Story

as Mrs. Eldridge

1950
The Return of the Vampire

as Lady Jane Ainsley

1943
It Comes Up Love

as Portia Winthrop

1943
Street of Chance

as Alma Diedrich

1942
Sweater Girl

as Mrs. Menard

1942
You'll Never Get Rich

as Mrs. Julia Cortland

1941
Shadows on the Stairs

as Mrs. Stella Rosabelle Armitage

1941
Remember the Day

as Mrs. Dewey Roberts

1941
The Letter

as Dorothy Joyce

1940
Convicted Woman

as Attorney Mary Ellis

1940
Tarzan Finds a Son!

as Mrs. Lancing

1939
The Zero Hour

as Linda Marsh

1939
Another Dawn

as Grace Roark

1937
The Garden Murder Case

as Mrs. Madge Fenwicke-Ralston

1936
The King Steps Out

as Princess Helena

1936
If You Could Only Cook

as Evelyn Fletcher

1935
Frieda Inescort Frieda Inescort

Birthday

1901-06-29

Place of Birth

Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland

Biography

​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.
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