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Cora Witherspoon - A Life on Stage and Screen (Paperback)
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Cora Witherspoon - A Life on Stage and Screen (Paperback)
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Born into an upper-crust family in New Orleans, Cora Bell
Witherspoon (1890-1957) was an orphan by the age of 10 and a
professional actress by 15. She was seen on Broadway from 1910 till
1946 in 36 productions and was a popular character actress in
Hollywood between 1931 and 1954. On stage she played roles like
Sallie McBride in Daddy Long Legs, Josephine Trent in The Awful
Truth, Martha Culver in The Constant Wife, Prudence in Camille, and
Mrs. Grant in The Front Page. Like many Hollywood supporting
players, her screen time was limited. She made the most of it,
whether as W.C. Fields's shrewish wife in The Bank Dick, Bette
Davis's fair weather friend Carrie in Dark Victory, the earthy,
amorous maid Patty in Quality Street, or the overbearing dowager
Mrs. Williamson in The Mating Season. On both stage and screen,
Witherspoon portrayed a range of stereotypes of older women. In the
end, though, she created her own type, incarnating the fashionable,
frivolous, flighty, and fawning society woman, often with a thinly
veiled libidinous quality. In addition to a detailed account of
Witherspoon's theater and film career, this groundbreaking
biography reveals her upbringing and family background and
discusses her struggle with substance abuse, which resulted in two
highly publicized arrests and one conviction.
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