Katharine Cornell
Katharine Cornell was born on February 16, 1893 (although most sources cite the incorrect year of 1898) in Berlin, Germany to American parents, and raised in Buffalo, New York.
She was a stage actress, writer, and theater owner/theatrical producer.
She is noted for her major Broadway roles in serious dramas, often directed by her husband, Guthrie McClintic. Theirs was a tandem marriage as he was a homosexual and she a lesbian, having had a long on-again off-again affair with Mercedes de Acosta, another relationship with actress Maude Adams, as well as other noted women of the time. Her most famous role was as English writer and poetess Elizabeth Barrett Browning in the 1931 Broadway production of The Barretts of Wimpole Street.
Cornell died on June 9, 1974, in Tisbury, Massachusetts at the age of 81.
NOTE: There is a theater space at the State University of New York at Buffalo named in her honor. Many student productions are presented there year round.
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