CORNELL, KATHARINE. Considered among the 20th century’s greatest stage actors; b. Berlin, Germany, ; d. Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts, .
Katharine Cornell,
Laurette Taylor
,
Helen Hayes
, and
Lynn Fontanne
(see Lunt and Fontanne) were the great actresses of their time.
Alexander Woollcott
dubbed Katharine Cornell the First Lady of the American Theater.
(He disliked her husband,
Guthrie McClintic
, and titled a New Yorker...