Josephine Hutchinson
Josephine Hutchinson (born October 12, 1903 in Seattle , † June 4, 1998 in Manhattan , New York City ) was an American actress .
Life
The red-haired Josephine Hutchinson came into contact with the acting business at an early age. Her mother Leona Roberts was a successful stage actress and later also launched a film career; her aunt Edith Roberts had been successful in silent films. Hutchinson made her film debut in The Little Princess (1917) with Mary Pickford and attended drama school. The Little Princess was initially her only film and Hutchinson married theater director Robert W. Bell in 1924. From 1926 she worked with Eva Le Gallienne and began an affair with her. When this became public in 1927, the careers of Hutchinson and Gallienne did not suffer, but Bell divorced Hutchinson in 1930. In 1932, Hutchinson's career peaked with an acclaimed appearance as the title character in Alice in Wonderland . In 1934 she returned to Hollywood, where she continued to perform regularly.
Hutchinson soon took on roles as "Leading Lady", the wife or lover of the main character, for example in the film Louis Pasteur (1936) with Paul Muni as Marie Pasteur and in Frankenstein's son as Elsa Frankenstein at the side of Basil Rathbone and Boris Karloff . She remained successful in the film business until the 1950s with productions such as The Sweet Trap and The Invisible Third Party, but also repeatedly took breaks from Hollywood. At this time she began to work increasingly for television. Well-known series she appeared on include A Thousand Miles of Dust , Twilight Zone , Perry Mason , The Partridge Family , Bonanza, and Smoking Colts . She last appeared in 1974 for the episode If I Should Wake Before I Die from the hit series Our Little Farm in a guest role in front of the camera.
After her divorce from Robert Bell, the actress married James Franklin Townsend in 1935, with whom she remained married until his death in 1970. In 1972 she got her third marriage to the actor Staats Cosworth, which lasted until his death in 1979. Josephine Hutchinson died in a Manhattan nursing home in 1998 at the age of 94.
Filmography (selection)
- 1934: Happiness Ahead
- 1935: Oil for the Lamps of China
- 1935: Louis Pasteur (The Story of Louis Pasteur)
- 1936: Small town with tradition (I Married a Doctor)
- 1937: Mountain Justice
- 1937: The Woman Men Marry
- 1939: Frankenstein's son (Son of Frankenstein)
- 1940: The wrong ways of Oliver Essex (My Son, my Son!)
- 1940: Tom Brown's School Days
- 1946: Somewhere in the Night (Somewhere in the Night)
- 1947: Shackles of Love (Cass Timberlane)
- 1952: The sweet case (Love is Better Than Ever)
- 1952: Wildes Blut (Ruby Gentry)
- 1955: A man loves dangerous (Many Rivers to Cross)
- 1956: Shoot or Die! (Gun For a Coward)
- 1959: The Invisible Third (North by Northwest)
- 1960: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)
- 1965: Die Lady und der Tramp (Baby, the Rain Must fall)
- 1966: Nevada Smith (Nevada Smith)
- 1970: Let's get away, Rabbit (Rabbit, Run)
Web links
- Josephine Hutchinson in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Josephine Hutchinson, 94, Movie Actress . In: The New York Times . June 10, 1998, ISSN 0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed December 3, 2017]).
- ↑ Staats Cotsworth (IMDb). Retrieved March 2, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hutchinson, Josephine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | US-american actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 12, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Seattle |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 4, 1998 |
| Place of death | Manhattan , New York City |