Kate Cutler
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Kate Ellen Louisa Cutler (14 August 1864 – 14 May 1955) was an English singer and actress, known in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as an ingénue in musical comedies, and later as a character actress in comic and dramatic plays. She is possibly best known for walking out of the lead role in Noël Coward's The Vortex in 1924 shortly before opening night. Cutler performed in films between 1929 and 1938, including Such Is the Law (1930), The Great Gay Road (1931), Lord of the Manor (1933), Come Out of the Pantry (1935) and Moscow Nights (1935). Her last film was Pygmalion in 1938. The Manchester Guardian said of her in an obituary notice, "She proved that an actress who can play the lead in musical comedy can go on to play the lead in anything else. ... She was a really accomplished actress with that indefinable quality which we call style." Cutler's second husband, Major Charles Dudley Ward, predeceased her. She died at her home in London, age 90.
Pygmalion
as Grand Old LadyWhen linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza...
Movie pageWedding Rehearsal
as Dowager Marchioness of BuckminsterThe grandmother of a British nobleman, reluctant to marry, plays matchmaker. He outmaneuvers her...
Movie pageAction for Slander
as The DowagerA bankrupt officer, accused of cheating at cards, defends his honour with a writ.
Movie pageCome Out of the Pantry
as Dowager Marchioness of AxminsterA Duke's son plays the part of a footman and shows himself amusing in the pantry.
Movie pageMoscow Nights
as Madame KovrinDuring the First World War, Russian officer Ignatoff, wounded, falls in love with his nurse,...
Movie pageWhen Knights Were Bold
as Aunt AgathaHappy-go-lucky soldier Guy De Vere must leave India and return to the family seat at Little...
Movie pageLord of the Manor
as Lady BoveyTwo aristocrats become engaged but fall in love with people from a lower class.
Movie pageDark Red Roses
as Laura's MotherDavid Cardew, a talented sculptor, lives an idyllic life in the English countryside with his...
Movie pageThe Great Gay Road
as Aunt Jessie'Romance of the open road and the circus. A tramp poses as baronet's lost son but relinquishes...
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