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 Lucrece (1932)

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  Map of Cornell's 1933–1934 transcontinental repertory tour

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  Cornell in the Broadway production of Romeo and Juliet, on the cover of Stage magazine (March 1935)

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  Cornell's dog Flush, the cocker spaniel that played the part of Flush in Barretts, died in July 1937. He had played his role 709 times, and traveled over 25,000 miles on tours, never getting drunk or arriving late. At his death, the Associated Press sent the story out over its entire network worldwide.

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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).

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  Color portrait photograph of Katharine Cornell on the cover of the New York Sunday News