Actresses of Stage & Screen Prints, & Photographs, “C...-”
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Alice Calhoun
b. 11-21-1900; Cleveland, OH
d. 6-3-1966; Los Angeles

Alice Calhoun was a silent film actress whose voice quality did not survive into the talkies.

Mrs. Patrick Campbell
née Beatrice Stella Tanner
b. 2-9-1865; London, England
d. 4-9-1940

Mrs. Patrick Campbell was a highly successful stage actress in London and on Broadway who used her first husband's name professionally (he died in the Boer War, 1900). The playwright George Bernard Shaw wrote the character Eliza in Pygmalion especially for her. She also appeared in films such as Crime and Punishment (1935) with Peter Lorre.

BTW - Her second husband was George Cornwallis-West who had been the second husband of Jennie Jerome, the mother of Winston Churchill.

Diahann Carroll
née Carol Diahann Johnson
b. 7-17-1935; NYC, NY

Actress and singer Diahann Carroll, who appeared in Carmen Jones and Porgy and Bess, also starred in 1968's Julia, one of the first series on American television to star a black woman in a non-stereotypical role.

Ann Catley
b. 1745; London, England
d. 1789

Singer and actress Anne Catley, was born in an alley off Tower Hill, London, the daughter of a washerwoman and a hackney coachman.

Ada Cavendish
b. 1839; England
d. 10-5-1895

Ada Cavendish is best remembered for her portrayals of Shakesperean heroines such as Juliet, Beatrice and Rosalind and plays by Wilkie Collins.

Carol Channing
b. 1-31-1921; Seattle, WA

Singer, actress, and comedienne Carol Channing has won three Tony Awards (including one for lifetime achievement), a Golden Globe, and an Academy Award nomination.

She is best remembered for originating the Broadway musical-comedy roles of blonde bombshell Lorelei Lee in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and matchmaking widow Dolly Gallagher Levi in Hello, Dolly!

Pauline Chase
née Ellen Pauline Matthew Bliss
b. x5-20-1885; Washington, DC
d. 3-15-1962; Royal Tunbridge Wells, England

Pauline Chase was notable for playing the part of J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan from 1906-1913.

Mae Clarke
née Violet Mary Klotz
b. 8-16-1910; Philadelphia, PA
d. 4-29-1992; California

Mae Clarke is the actress in one of film's most remembered scenes - James Cagney pushed half a grapefruit into her face in Public Enemy. She also played Dr. Frankenstein's fiancee in the first sound version of Frankenstein (1931) with Boris Karloff.

Kitty Clive
née Catherine Raftor
b. 11-5-1711; London, England
d. 12-6-1785; Twickenham

Kitty Clive was one of the most famous actresses of her generation, talented in comedy and music. One of her best remembered notable roles was Polly in John Gay's The Beggar's Opera.

Henry Fielding wrote parts for her in his plays and she was close friends with Horace Walpole. Clive wrote to Walpole, “for th'o I am now representing women of qualitty and Coblers wives &c &c to Crowded houeses, and flattering applause; the Charecture I am most desierous to act well is; a good sort of Countrey gentlewoman at twickenham”.

Constance Collier
b. 1-22-1878; Windsor, Berkshire, England
d. 5-21-1955; NYC, NY

Constance Collier was a stage and film actress as well as highly respected acting coach.

• Stage Door movie poster

Louise Françoise Contat
b. 6-16-1760; Paris, France
d. 3-9-1813

Louise Françoise Contat in the role of Suzanne in Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais' “The Marriage of Figaro”.

Lotta Crabtree
née Charlotte Mignon Crabtree
b. 11-7-1847; NYC, NY
d. 9-25-1924; Boston

Lotta Crabtree was one of America's most beloved and wealthiest entertainers of the late 19th century.

Her career began as a six year old singing and dancing in the gold camps of California.

• Lotta Crabtree, Gold Rush Girl

Joan Crawford
née Lucille Fay LeSueur
b. 3-23-1905; San Antonio, Texas
d. 5-10-1977; New York

Joan Crawford's early film roles were “rags to riches” stories of hardworking young women who find romance and financial success- a theme well-received by Depression-era audiences and women - pushing her into one of Hollywood's most prominent movie stars and one of the highest paid women in the United States. She won an Academy Award for Best Actress in Mildred Pierce (1945). Her adopted daughter Christina published a “tell-all” memoir, Mommie Dearest, after Crawford's death.

• Mildred Pierce movie poster

Charlotte Cushman
b. 7-23-1816; Boston, MA
d. 2-18-1876; Boston

Charlotte Cushman began her career as an operatic soprano; when her voice failed she was advised to become a stage actress.

Among Cushman's most memorable roles was her ‘Romeo’ to her sister Susan's ‘Juliet’.

FYI - She was an admirer of poet Sidney Lanier's work.

Pauline Cushman, née Harriet Wood
b. 6-10-1833; New Orleans, LA
d. 12-2-1893; San Francisco

Actress Pauline Cushman expanded her performances to include acting as a spy for the Union during the American Civil War.

FYI - Cushman was raised in Grand Rapids, MI.