Violet Kemble-Cooper
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Violet Kemble-Cooper was a stage and film actress born in London and descended from a well known theatrical family; the Kemble family
. Her father was Frank Kemble-Cooper and her sisters and were Lillian Kemble-Cooper and Greta Kemble Cooper.
She made her first stage appearance in 1905 in her native England in a production of Charley's Aunt
. By 1912 she was in America touring and in stock plays with such luminaries as Blanche Bates
and Laurette Taylor
. She appeared with John
and Ethel Barrymore
in Claire de Lune
on Broadway in 1921.
Violet spent her formative years acting in the theater and never appeared in silent films. She appeared in talkies beginning in 1933 in the Constance Bennett
film Our Betters
. She appeared in several more films including The Invisible Man with Claude Rains
. Her last movie was the MGM costumer Romeo & Juliet.
She was married to Walter Ferris, a writer. She died of a stroke and Parkinson's disease in 1961.
Kemble family
Kemble is the name of a family of English actors, all distinguished actors and actresses who reigned over the British stage for decades. The most famous were Sarah Siddons and her brother John Philip Kemble , the two eldest of the twelve children of Roger Kemble , a strolling player and manager of...
. Her father was Frank Kemble-Cooper and her sisters and were Lillian Kemble-Cooper and Greta Kemble Cooper.
She made her first stage appearance in 1905 in her native England in a production of Charley's Aunt
Charley's Aunt
Charley's Aunt is a farce in three acts written by Brandon Thomas. It broke all historic records for plays of any kind, with an original London run of 1,466 performances....
. By 1912 she was in America touring and in stock plays with such luminaries as Blanche Bates
Blanche Bates
Blanche Bates was an American actress, born at Portland, Ore. She made her début in San Francisco in a benefit performance of Brander Matthews's This Picture and That. Among her early successes were her Mrs. Hillary in The Senator, Phyllis in The Charity Ball, and Nora in A Doll's House...
and Laurette Taylor
Laurette Taylor
Laurette Taylor was an American stage and silent film actress.-Personal life:Laurette Taylor was born in New York City of Irish extraction as Loretta Helen Cooney.-Personal life:...
. She appeared with John
John Barrymore
John Sidney Blyth , better known as John Barrymore, was an acclaimed American actor. He first gained fame as a handsome stage actor in light comedy, then high drama and culminating in groundbreaking portrayals in Shakespearean plays Hamlet and Richard III...
and Ethel Barrymore
Ethel Barrymore
Ethel Barrymore was an American actress and a member of the Barrymore family of actors.-Early life:Ethel Barrymore was born Ethel Mae Blythe in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the second child of the actors Maurice Barrymore and Georgiana Drew...
in Claire de Lune
Blanche Oelrichs
Blanche Oelrichs was an American poet, playwright, and theatre actress known by the pseudonym, "Michael Strange."-Biography:...
on Broadway in 1921.
Violet spent her formative years acting in the theater and never appeared in silent films. She appeared in talkies beginning in 1933 in the Constance Bennett
Constance Bennett
-Early life:She was born in New York City, the daughter of actor Richard Bennett and actress Adrienne Morrison, whose father was the stage actor Lewis Morrison , a wealthy performer of English and Spanish ancestry...
film Our Betters
Our Betters
Our Betters is a 1933 American satirical comedy film directed by George Cukor. The screenplay by Jane Murfin and Harry Wagstaff Gribble is based on the 1923 play of the same title by W. Somerset Maugham.-Plot:...
. She appeared in several more films including The Invisible Man with Claude Rains
Claude Rains
Claude Rains was an English stage and film actor whose career spanned 66 years. He was known for many roles in Hollywood films, among them the title role in The Invisible Man , a corrupt senator in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington , Mr...
. Her last movie was the MGM costumer Romeo & Juliet.
She was married to Walter Ferris, a writer. She died of a stroke and Parkinson's disease in 1961.
