Constance Carpenter
Constance Carpenter | |
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Born | |
Died | 26 December 1992 New York City, New York, US | (aged 88)
Nationality | British American |
Other names | Constance Emmeline Carpenter |
Occupation | Actress |
Known for | Musical theatre |
Constance Emmeline Carpenter (19 April 1904 – 26 December 1992) was an English-born American film and musical theatre actress.
Biography
Carpenter was born in Bath, Somerset, in 1904,[n 1] the daughter of Harold Carpenter and his wife Mabel Anne, née Cottrell, music hall artists.[2] Her first appearance on stage was with fellow-pupils of the Lila Field Academy, a stage school whose alumni included Noël Coward and Ninette de Valois.[1][3]
Her debut as an adult performer was in the
In 1929 Carpenter returned to London, appearing in Cochran and Charlot productions.[1] She appeared in pantomime at the Lyceum with Naughton and Gold in the Christmas 1930 season.[4] Throughout the 1930s she divided her time between English and American engagements.[1] In 1938 and 1939 she appeared in Terence Rattigan's long-running French Without Tears at the Criterion Theatre, London.[5]
During World War II, Carpenter entertained troops throughout Europe, the Middle East and Asia.[1] After returning to the United States in 1950, she took American citizenship.[2]
Carpenter's most notable Broadway credit was ]
Carpenter film credits were limited to Just for a Song (1929), Two Worlds (1930), and Brown Sugar (1931).[citation needed]
Personal life
Carpenter married and divorced Paul Ord Hamilton, J. H. S. Lucas-Scudamore and the actor Eric Berry; she was twice married to and twice divorced from the songwriter Captain James Kennedy.[1][2]
She died of a stroke in Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan, aged 88.[2]
Notes and references
- Notes
- ^ Carpenter's Who's Who in the Theatre entry knocks two years off her age, giving her birth date as 1906.[1]
- References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Gaye, pp. 430–431
- ^ a b c d New York Times obituary, 1 January 1993
- ^ "The Little Theatre", The Times, 28 January 1911, p. 12; and "Dame Ninette de Valois OM", The Daily Telegraph, 9 March 2001
- ^ "Robinson Crusoe", The Times, 18 December 1930, p. 12
- ^ "Theatres", The Times, 28 November 1938, p. 12
- ^ "Simon And Laura", The Times, 22 November 1954, p. 2
Sources
- Gaye, Freda, ed. (1967). Who's Who in the Theatre (fourteenth ed.). London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons. OCLC 5997224.
External links
- Constance Carpenter at the Internet Broadway Database
- Constance Carpenter at IMDb