Frieda Inescort
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Frieda Inescort (born Frieda Wrightman, 29 June 1901 – 26 February 1976) was a Scottish-born actress best known for creating the role of Sorel Bliss in Noël Coward's play Hay Fever on Broadway. She also played the shingled lady in John Galsworthy's 1927 Broadway production Escape. Inescort's acting debut came in The Truth About Blayds (1922), which was presented at the Booth Theatre on Broadway. Her other Broadway credits include You and I (1923), The Woman on the Jury (1923), Windows (1923), The Fake (1924), Ariadne (1925), Hay Fever (1925), Love in a Mist (1926), Mozart (1926), Trelawny of the "Wells" (1927), Escape (1927-1928), Napi (1931), Company's Coming (1931), Springtime for Henry (1931-1932), When Ladies Meet (1933), False Dreams, Farewell (1934), Lady Jane (1934), Soldier's Wife (1944-1945), The Mermaids Singing (1945-1946) and You Never Can Tell (1948). Frieda Wrightman adopted her mother's surname as her professional name and moved to Hollywood and made her film debut in The Dark Angel (1935). Her other films include Mary of Scotland (1936), The Letter (1940), The Trial of Mary Dugan (1941), You'll Never Get Rich (1941) and A Place in the Sun (1951). She appeared with Laurence Olivier and Greer Garson as the conniving Caroline Bingley in the 1940 film version of Pride and Prejudice. She had a leading role in Call It A Day, a 1937 film in which she appeared with Olivia de Havilland, Bonita Granville, Roland Young, and Ian Hunter. She appeared in at least one episode of Perry Mason, as Hope Quentin in "The Case of the Jealous Journalist" (season 5, 1961). Description above from the Wikipedia article Frieda Inescort, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Credits
A Place in the Sun (1951)
as Mrs. Ann Vickers
Pride and Prejudice (1940)
as Miss Caroline Bingley
Tarzan Finds a Son! (1939)
as Mrs. Lancing
The Eddy Duchin Story (1956)
as Edith Wadsworth
You'll Never Get Rich (1941)
as Mrs. Julia Cortland
If You Could Only Cook (1935)
as Evelyn Fletcher
The Alligator People (1959)
as Mrs. Lavinia Hawthorne
Casanova's Big Night (1954)
as Signora Di Gambetta
The Return of the Vampire (1943)
as Lady Jane Ainsley
Mary of Scotland (1936)
as Mary Beaton
The She-Creature (1956)
as Mrs. Chappel
The Letter (1940)
as Dorothy Joyce
The Underworld Story (1950)
as Mrs. Eldridge
The Garden Murder Case (1936)
as Mrs. Madge Fenwicke-Ralston
A Woman is the Judge (1939)
as Mary Cabot
Give Me Your Heart (1936)
as Rosamond Melford
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday (1943)
as Karen Holliday
The Great O'Malley (1937)
as Mrs. Philips
The Judge Steps Out (1947)
as Evelyn Bailey
Another Dawn (1937)
as Grace Roark
Never Wave at a WAC (1953)
as Lily Mae Gorham
Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6 (1942)
Actor
Call It a Day (1937)
as Dorothy Hilton
Beauty for the Asking (1939)
as Flora Barton-Williams
Foxfire (1955)
as Mrs. Lawrence
Convicted Woman (1940)
as Attorney Mary Ellis
Flame of the Islands (1955)
as Evelyn Hammond
The Crowded Sky (1960)
as Mrs. Mitchell
The Courtship of Andy Hardy (1942)
as Olivia Nesbit
The King Steps Out (1936)
as Princess Helena
Shadows on the Stairs (1941)
as Mrs. Stella Rosabelle Armitage
The Trial of Mary Dugan (1941)
as Mrs. Wayne
Woman Doctor (1939)
as Dr. Judith Randall Graeme
The Dark Angel (1935)
as Ann West
Hollywood Boulevard (1936)
as Alice Winslow
Mission to Moscow (1943)
as Madame Molotov (uncredited)
Remember the Day (1941)
as Mrs. Dewey Roberts
Why We Fight: The Battle of Britain (1943)
as Narrator
It Comes Up Love (1943)
as Portia Winthrop
Sweater Girl (1942)
as Mrs. Menard
Street of Chance (1942)
as Alma Diedrich
Father's Son (1941)
as Ruth Emory
Sunny (1941)
as Elizabeth Warren
Heavenly Days (1944)
as Ettie Clark
Senior Prom (1958)
as Mrs. Sherridan
The Zero Hour (1939)
as Linda Marsh
Portia on Trial (1937)
as Portia Merriman
Juke Box Rhythm (1959)
as Aunt Margaret