Kate Cutler

Born: 1870-08-14

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.


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Pygmalion

as Grand Old Lady
Released: 1939-03-03

When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza...

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Wedding Rehearsal

as Dowager Marchioness of Buckminster
Released: 1932-10-01

The grandmother of a British nobleman, reluctant to marry, plays matchmaker. He outmaneuvers her...

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Such Is the Law

as Mother
Released: 1930-11-14

A film directed by Sinclair Hill.

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When Knights Were Bold

as Aunt Agatha
Released: 1936-02-18

Happy-go-lucky soldier Guy De Vere must leave India and return to the family seat at Little...

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Come Out of the Pantry

as Dowager Marchioness of Axminster
Released: 1935-11-22

A Duke's son plays the part of a footman and shows himself amusing in the pantry.

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The Great Gay Road

as Aunt Jessie
Released: 1931-10-21

'Romance of the open road and the circus. A tramp poses as baronet's lost son but relinquishes...

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Dark Red Roses

as Laura's Mother
Released: 1929-10-16

David Cardew, a talented sculptor, lives an idyllic life in the English countryside with his...

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Moscow Nights

as Madame Kovrin
Released: 1935-11-05

During the First World War, Russian officer Ignatoff, wounded, falls in love with his nurse,...

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Lord of the Manor

as Lady Bovey
Released: 1933-05-01

Two aristocrats become engaged but fall in love with people from a lower class.

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