Frieda Inescort

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Frieda Inescort (born June 29, 1901 in Edinburgh , Scotland , † February 26, 1976 in Los Angeles , California ) was a Scottish actress .

Life

Frieda Inescort was born in 1901 to the actress Elaine Inescort and the journalist John Wrightman. After completing her school education, Inescort initially worked in an office until she met Lady Nancy Astor , the wife of the secretary of the British Prime Minister at the time, David Lloyd George , by chance . Lady Astor hired Inescort as a consultant. In 1919 she traveled to America with Lady Astor and quit her job shortly before returning to London in order to stay with her mother, who now lives in New York . Inescort found work again in an office and made contacts on Broadway . In 1922 she played her first small role in the play The Truth about Blayd's - so successful that their next commitment to star in Phillip Barry's staging You and I was. Other acclaimed performances followed. In 1926 she married Ben Ray Redman, a former work colleague.

In 1927 she played alongside Leslie Howard in Escape , in the 1928/1929 season she went on tour with co-star George Arliss and the play The Merchant of Venice . In the early 1930s, her husband got a lucrative job offer from the film company Universal Pictures . The couple moved to California together. In 1935 followed - after an engagement at the Los Angeles Theater - the first supporting role in the film The Dark Angel . In 1936 she starred in Call it a Day on the side of Olivia de Havilland . Inescort now played cold, upper-class women more often, for example Caroline Bingley in Pride and Prejudice alongside Laurence Olivier as Mr. Darcy . In 1944 she returned to Broadway and played theater there again successfully. From 1950 Inescort was also a regular guest on television, including the then popular shows Thriller and The Millionaire .

During the filming of The Crowded Sky in 1960 Inescort suffered from dizziness and disorientation again and again . Shortly thereafter, multiple sclerosis was diagnosed. In 1961 her health deteriorated and her husband died of suicide . From the mid-1960s, Inescort was dependent on a wheelchair and worked full-time for the American Multiple Sclerosis Society. In 1976 Inescort died in a Los Angeles nursing home.

Theater (selection)

  • 1922: The Truth about Blayd’s
  • 1922: You and I
  • 1925: Hay Fever
  • 1927: Escape
  • 1930: Pygmalion
  • 1931: Springtime for Henry
  • 1945: The Mermaids are singing
  • 1948: You never can tell

Filmography (selection)

Cinema productions

Television productions

  • 1951: Meet Corliss Archer
  • 1952: Fireside Theater
  • 1954: Letter to Loretta
  • 1955: Four Star Playhouse
  • 1959: Bourbon Street Beat
  • 1961: Perry Mason

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frieda Inescort. In: ibdb.com. Accessed November 10, 2019 .

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personal data
SURNAME Inescort, Frieda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish actress
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Edinburgh , Scotland , United Kingdom
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1976
Place of death Los Angeles , California , United States