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Gladys George
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Actor Born: September 13, 1904 in Patton, ME Death: December 8, 1954 in Los Angeles, CA Biography:The daughter of a British Shakespearean actor, Gladys George was born while her parents' touring stock company was playing an engagement in Patten, Maine. On stage from age three, Gladys toured with her parents in a vaudeville act called The Three Clares. She won her first Broadway role in the 1914 production The Betrothal. Six years later she tried to launch a film career in "Red Hot Dollars" (1920), but her incipient stardom was halted when she was severely burned in an accident. She went back into stock, returning to Broadway in the early 1930s through the influence of her wealthy second husband Edward H. Fowler. Screen-tested by Paramount in 1934, George was signed by MGM instead; ironically, it was while on loan-out to Paramount that she scored her biggest film hit, 1936's "Valiant is the Word for Carrie". For the next several years, George alternated between "weepers" and truculent roles in... Full Biography
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