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...veteran character actress; in Middlebush, NJ. Dour-faced, fire-eyed and testy-tongued, she specialized in playing disreputable old wrecks. She was one of the founders of the Theatre Guild. She was the fifth famed character actress to die in recent weeks (the others: Dame Marie Tempest, May Robson, Edna May Oliver, Laura Hope Crews...
...went to Hollywood, was flibberti-gibbety Aunt Pittypat in Gone With the Wind. As one of the solicitous old poisoners in Arsenic and Old Lace she played her last part; she was the fourth famed character actress to die in five weeks (the others: Dame Marie Tempest, May Robson, Edna May Oliver...
Died. Charactress Edna May Nutter ("Edna May Oliver"), 59, long-faced, purse-mouthed player of acid old maids; of an intestinal ailment; on her birthday; in Hollywood. Born into a well-to-do Boston family that went broke, she was originally a singer but ruined her voice giving outdoor concerts, turned to playing in theatrical stock companies. She made her first hits in Broadway's Icebound and The Cradle Snatchers, attracted greater attention in Show Boat. In Hollywood she was a deft scene-stealer, won a reputation as a character actress. She lived alone, rarely took part in Hollywood...
...five children. The Connecticut judge who ruled the children should stay with their father, Crooner Morton Downey, recalled that the mother had remarried a few days after the divorce, found she had "permitted volatile infatuation to be substituted for mother love." Cinecomic Red Skelton's wife Edna announced she was moving out as his wife but would continue as his manager and gagwriter, said: "It had to be one or the other...
Hindside Foremost. Later young Ilka was transferred to a secular school where her popularity depended on whether or not her mother, Edna Woolman Chase, editor of Vogue, was "crusading against fashions for the young." As soon as she could, she bought herself a gold lace negligee with pink marabou feathers "of which Mother remarked, with the candor which has always distinguished her, that it was a tart's idea of heaven." Then Mother gave her a choice of more school or a trip to Europe...