Louise Platt

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Louise Platt (born August 3, 1915 in Stamford , Connecticut , † September 6, 2003 in Greenport , New York ) was an American actress.

life and career

Raised the daughter of a marine doctor in Annapolis , Maryland , she married the theater producer and director Jed Harris in 1939 . The marriage, which was divorced in 1941, had a daughter. Another daughter came from the second marriage to the teacher Stanley Gould, with whom Louise Platt remained married until his death.

After her acting talent was noticed by a theater producer in high school, Louise Platt made her way as a theater actor to the stages of Broadway . At the age of 23, she also came to film in 1938, was considered to play Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind , but did not get the role. Instead, she was able to act in another classic film in 1939, the year in which Gone with the Wind appeared, in John Ford's Western Stagecoach as the pregnant officer's wife Lucy Mallory. Her few other films include the adventure films Pirates in Alaska (1938) and Assault on the Olive Branch (1940), in which she played larger roles. As early as 1942, Platt left Hollywood and returned to the theater. In the 1950s, between 1952 and 1958, and again in 1963, she appeared on American television.

Filmography

  • 1938: I Met My Love Again
  • 1938: Pirates in Alaska (Spawn of the North)
  • 1939: Ringo (stagecoach)
  • 1939: Tell No Tales
  • 1940: Forgotten Girls
  • 1940: Assault on the Olive Branch (Captain Caution)
  • 1942: The Black Curtain (Street of Chance)
  • 1955: Playwrights '56 (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1956: Star Tonight (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1956: Goodyear Television Playhouse (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1956: Kraft Television Theater (TV series, 3 episodes)
  • 1957: The United States Steel Hour (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1957/1958: Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV series, 2 episodes)
  • 1958–1959: Springfield Story (soap opera)
  • 1959: New York Confidential (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1959: Look Up and Live (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1963: Merciless City ( Naked City ; TV series, 1 episode)

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