Katharine Cornell

Katharine Cornell (February 16, 1893 – June 9, 1974) was an American state actress, author and theatrical producer. She played English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning in The Barretts of Wimpole Street in 1931. She also played Juliet in Romeo and Juliet in 1934. She wrote several biography books. The most notable one was I Always Wanted to be an Actress, published in 1939. She was married to Guthrie McClintic.

Cornell was born in Berlin to American parents. She was raised in Buffalo, New York. She died at age 81 in Tisbury, Massachusetts.

Katharine Cornell Media

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  Katharine Cornell at age two

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  Cornell as Elizabeth Barrett in the original Broadway production of The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1931)

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  Cornell with Charles Waldron, who portrayed Elizabeth's uncompromising father in the Broadway production of The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1931)

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  Brian Aherne and Cornell in the original Broadway production of The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1931)

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  Cornell as Lucrece (1932)

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  Map of the Cornell tour of 1933–1934

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  Jo Mielziner portrait of Cornell in The Wingless Victory, on the cover of Stage magazine (January 1937)

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  Cornell and Laurence Olivier in No Time for Comedy, on the cover of Stage (April 15, 1939)

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  Cornell, Aline MacMahon and Dorothy Fields serve soldiers played by Lon McCallister and Michael Harrison in Stage Door Canteen (1943)