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Lucile Watson (May 27, 1879 – June 24, 1962) was a Canadian actress, long based in the United States. She was "famous for her roles of formidable dowagers."[1]

This article's lead section may be too short to adequately summarize the key points. (March 2017)

Lucile Watson
Watson in 1953
Born	(1879-05-27)May 27, 1879 Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Died	June 24, 1962(1962-06-24) (aged 83) New York City, U.S.
Resting place	Mount Hope Cemetery, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1902–1954
Spouse(s)	Rockliffe Fellowes (m. 1906; div. 19??) Louis Evan Shipman ​ ​ (m. 1926; died 1933)​

Early years

Watson was born in Quebec and raised in Ottawa, the daughter of an officer in the British Army. Despite his wishes, she traveled to New York City and enrolled in a dramatic school.[2]

Career

Watson began her career on the stage debuting on Broadway in the play Hearts Aflame in 1902. Her next play was The Girl with Green Eyes, the first of several Clyde Fitch stories. At the end of 1903, Watson appeared in Fitch's Glad of It. This play featured several young performers, including Watson who moved to major Broadway or motion picture prominence: Robert Warwick, John Barrymore, Thomas Meighan, and Grant Mitchell. For the rest of the decade, she appeared in several more Fitch stories into the 1910s. Fitch died in 1909.^{[citation needed]}

Watson was primarily a stage actress, appearing in 39 Broadway plays.[3] She starred in plays such as Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines, Heartbreak House, Ghosts, The Importance of Being Earnest, and Pride and Prejudice.

Watson's first film role was in the 1916 silent film The Girl with Green Eyes, a film version of the Clyde Fitch play she had performed on Broadway in 1902. She did not appear in another movie until 1930 when she had an uncredited role in The Royal Family of Broadway. In 1939, she played a memorable role as Norma Shearer's wise mother in the cultural comedy/drama from the Clare Booth Luce play The Women.

Watson reached the height of her adult acting career in playwright Lillian Hellman's anti-fascist dramatic stage play Watch on the Rhine on Broadway in 1941, starring Paul Lukas. Two years later in Hollywood, she and Lukas reprised their roles in the film adaptation.[4] In perhaps her best known film role, Lucile Watson's performance as Fanny Farrelly received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Lucile Watson played Aunt March in the 1949 film version of Little Women, whose stars included Elizabeth Taylor as Amy. The following year, she was cast along with her famous The Women co-star Joan Crawford in the melodrama Harriet Craig.

Personal life

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Watson's first name, Lucile, is often misspelled in her movie credits as Lucille. Sometime in the 1910s, she was briefly married to silent film star Rockliffe Fellowes; they had no children. Her second husband was playwright Louis E. Shipman, whom she married in 1928; he died five years later, in 1933.

Death

Watson died on June 25, 1962.[5]

Broadway roles

• No More Ladies (1934) as Mrs. Fanny Townsend
• Watch on the Rhine (1941) as Fanny Farrelly[6]

Partial filmography

Sources

• Lucile Watson biography by Film historian T. R. Bourgeois

References

Further reading

• Alistair, Rupert (2018). "Lucile Watson". The Name Below the Title : 65 Classic Movie Character Actors from Hollywood's Golden Age (softcover) (First ed.). Great Britain: Independently published. pp. 249–251. ISBN 978-1-7200-3837-5.

External links

• Lucile Watson at IMDb
• Lucile Watson at the Internet Broadway Database
• Lucile Watson portraits Broadway 1910s or 20s NYP Library
• Lucile Watson at Find a Grave
• Lucile Watson posing for Vanity Fair August 1921 portrait by Nickolas Muray
• Lucile Watson - Aveleyman

На других языках

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[de] Lucile Watson

Lucile Watson (* 27. Mai 1879 in Québec City, Québec; † 24. Juni 1962 in New York City, New York, USA) war eine kanadische Film- und Theaterschauspielerin.

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- [en] Lucile Watson

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[es] Lucile Watson

Lucile Watson (27 de mayo de 1879 – 24 de junio de 1962) fue una actriz teatral y cinematográfica canadiense.

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[ru] Уотсон, Люсиль

Люсиль Уотсон (англ. Lucile Watson; 27 мая 1879 — 24 июня 1962) — канадская актриса, номинантка на премию «Оскар».

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