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Constance Cummings
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Actor Born: May 15, 1910 in Seattle, WA Death: November 23, 2005 in Oxfordshire, England, UK Biography:The daughter of an attorney father and an opera-diva mother, Constance Cummings took dancing lessons in the hopes of becoming a prima ballerina. She switched to acting, landing the role of Diana in a stock-company production of "Seventh Heaven" when she was only 16. Within a few years, she was appearing on Broadway as a chorus dancer in the company of such leading lights as Gertrude Lawrence and Clifton Webb. In 1930, she was brought to Hollywood by Sam Goldwyn for the Ronald Colman vehicle "The Devil to Pay". She was replaced in that film by Loretta Young, but the next year she was prominently cast in Howard Hawks' prison picture "The Criminal Code" (1931). Seldom cast as a conventional ingenue, Constance enjoyed such complex roles as the twin-personality heroine in Harold Lloyd's "Movie Crazy" (1932). Upon her marriage to British playwright W. Benn Levy in 1933, Constance moved to England, where she... Full Biography
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