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Dame May Whitty
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Actor Born: June 19, 1865 in Liverpool, England Death: May 29, 1948 in Beverly Hills, CA Biography:The daughter of a Liverpool newspaper editor, British actress "Dame May Whitty" first stepped on a London stage in 1882. Shortly afterward she was engaged by the St. James Theatre, serving mostly in an understudy capacity. From there, Whitty went into a travelling stock company, finally attaining leading roles. She had been one of the leading lights of the British stage for nearly 25 years when she appeared in her first film, "Enoch Arden", in 1914; caring little for the experience, she made only a smattering of silent films thereafter. In 1918, the 53-year-old May Whitty was made a Dame Commander of the British Empire in recognition of her above-and-beyond activities performing before the troops in World War I. After a string of 1930s Broadway successes, Whitty went to Hollywood for the same reasons that many of her British contemporaries had previously done so -- the work was easy and the money,... Full Biography
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