Violet Kemble-Cooper

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Violet Kemble-Cooper (born December 12, 1886 in London , England , † August 17, 1961 in Hollywood , California ) was a British actress .

life and career

Violet Kemble-Cooper with John Barrymore in Clair de Lune (1921)

Violet Kemble-Cooper was born in London as a member of the famous Kemble theater family. The most famous members of this family were Sarah Siddons , John Philip Kemble , Stephen Kemble, and Charles Kemble . Her father Frank and her siblings Lillian, Greta and Tony Kemble-Cooper were also actors. She made her theatrical debut in 1911 in a production by Charley's aunt . Soon afterwards she moved to the USA and worked there with the theater stars Blanche Bates and Laurette Taylor, among others. She appeared in 25 Broadway productions between 1912 and 1934 . In 1921 she joined B. next to John and Ethel Barrymore in the play Claire de Lune .

In 1933 she began working in Hollywood as a supporting actress. Violet Kemble-Cooper played aristocratic women in five of her eight films up to 1936. She played her best-known roles as the cruel Miss Murdstone in the literary film adaptation of David Copperfield and as the mother of Boris Karloff in the horror film Deadly Rays . Due to an operation in 1937 she was unable to play the role of Miss Rottenmeier in Heidi . She did not appear in any other films until the end of her life. Violet Kemble-Cooper was married to the author Walter Farris and they had at least one son. Kemble-Cooper died in 1961 of a heart attack associated with Parkinson's disease.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heidi (1937) Notes. In: Turner Classic Movies . Retrieved May 11, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Kemble-Cooper, Violet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actress
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH London , England , UK
DATE OF DEATH 17th August 1961
Place of death Hollywood , California , United States