Dorothy Cumming

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Dorothy Cumming (around 1920)

Dorothy Cumming (* probably April 12, 1894 in Boorowa , New South Wales , † December 10, 1983 in New York City ) was an Australian - American theater and silent film actress .

life and career

Dorothy Cumming was probably born in Australia in 1894, although the exact dates of birth are controversial. In her youth she played as the Leading Lady in James Cassius Williamson's famous theater company that traveled and performed throughout Australia. After Cumming moved to the United States, she starred in the hit Broadway play Tiger! Between 1918 and 1919 . Tiger! to see. The black-haired actress made her film debut in 1915 with the lead role in Within Our Gates . In Hollywood in the 1920s, Cumming was often entrusted with the portrayal of strict and tough women as a leading supporting actress. Directed by Victor Sjöström , she played a jealous farmer's wife in Der Wind (1928) alongside Lillian Gish and the mother of Greta Garbo in The Divine Woman (1928). Mary , the mother of Jesus, played a sympathetic role in Cecil B. DeMille's epic King of Kings (1927).

With the start of talkies in the late 1920s, Cumming withdrew from the film business. In 1939, however, she worked again as a writer and director of the Broadway play The Woman Brown . Cumming was married twice and had two children. She died in New York City in December 1983 at the age of 89.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Commons : Dorothy Cumming  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Dorothy Cumming in the Internet Broadway Database (English)
  2. ↑ a b Dorothy Cumming at Fandango
personal data
SURNAME Cumming, Dorothy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian-American theater and silent film actress
DATE OF BIRTH uncertain: April 12, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Boorowa , New South Wales , Australia
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 1983
Place of death New York City , United States