Kathleen Tremaine

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Kathleen Tremaine (born Kathleen Hannah Truscott on September 29, 1903 in Gainsborough , Lincolnshire , England, † November 10, 1980 in Los Angeles , California, USA) was a British theater and film actress . She became known in the 1930s for her roles in the two films The Umbrella and A Lady Disappears .

life and career

Tremaine, who was born in Great Britain, was an actress back in the 1930s. In England she played Viceroy Sarah by Norman Ginsbury in 1935 in the ensemble led by Irene Vanbrugh , Barbara Everest and Margaret Webster . In the late 1970s she very successfully portrayed Mrs. Chichester alongside Gibson Glass and Mary E. Baird in the off-Broadway production of the play Peg o 'My Heart by J. Hartley Manners in New York staged by the Lion Theater Company .

In England Tremaine only appeared in a few films as an actress, including 1933 directed by Redd Davis in the comedy The Umbrella in the role of Mary Wynne at the side of fellow actors such as Kay Hammond , Harold French and Victor Stanley. In 1938 she was cast by the director Alfred Hitchcock in his successful crime comedy A Lady Disappears . There she played the open-hearted maid Anna, who embarrassed the two cricket lovers Caldicott Naunton Wayne and Charters Basil Radford time and again with her naively friendly, erotically revealing manner.

Tremaine was the aunt of actress Joanna Pettet and the mother of writer David Dalton. She died on November 10, 1980.

literature

  • Kathleen Tremaine. In: The New York Times Theater Reviews. , New York Times & Arno Press, 1977, p. 36.

Filmography

movie theater

  • 1933: The Umbrella
  • 1938: A Lady Vanishes (The Lady Vanishes)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kathleen Tremaine. In: Donald Spoto: The Art of Alfred Hitchcock: Fifty Years of His Motion Pictures. , Random House LLC, 1995, p. 450.
  2. ↑ Kathleen Tremaine. In: theatricalia.
  3. ↑ Kathleen Tremaine. In: Theater World, Volume 33. Crown Publishers, 1978, p. 102.
  4. ↑ Kathleen Tremaine. In: Michael Walker: Hitchcock's Motifs. , Amsterdam University Press, 2005, p. 440.
personal data
SURNAME Tremaine, Kathleen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Truscott, Kathleen Hannah (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actress in theater and film
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Gainsborough , Lincolnshire , England
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1980
Place of death Los Angeles , California, USA