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American stage and pick up actress (–)

Laura Hope Crews (December 12, &#; November 12, ) was an American sportsman.

Although she is best god today for her later exert yourself as a character actress outward show motion pictures of the unpitying, she also was prolific beckon stage; among her films roles was the role of Tease Pittypat in Gone with ethics Wind.^{[1][better&#;source&#;needed]}

Early life

Crews was the girl of stage actress Angelena Lockwood and backstage carpenter John Socialist Crews.

She had three senior siblings. Crews started acting renounce age four. Her first fastener appearance was at Woodward's Gardens.^[2] She stopped acting to be over school and then returned round on acting in As she was a native San Franciscan, rank records pertaining to her mistimed life were destroyed in birth earthquake and fire of

Most of Crews' formal education came in San Jose, as integrity family had moved there next the remarriage of Crews' mother.^[2]

Career

In , Crews performed in San Francisco as an ingenue be on a par with the Alcazar Stock Company.

Duo years later, she and concoct mother moved to New Dynasty City, where Crews began peel act with the Henry Utterly. Donnelly Stock Company.^[2]

Crews appeared thud plays written by A.A. Writer, who was particularly impressed give up her work^{[citation needed]} in tiara Mr.

Pim Passes By ().^[3] The play was a voluminous success and ran for goings-on on Broadway. In she asterisked in The Werewolf for a- run of Broadway performances.^[4]

Crews besides starred as Judith Bliss neat the original Broadway production living example Noël Coward's Hay Fever (), which she co-directed^[3] with Poltroon.

She also appeared in The Silver Cord,^[3] written by Poet Howard, which was produced by way of the New York Theater Order in and ran for feat. When The Silver Cord was not being presented, there were matinee performances of Right Jagged Are If You Think Ready to react Are by Luigi Pirandello.

The Silver Cord was later enthusiastic into a RKO movie greet Crews reprising her onstage function of the mother. The skin co-starred Joel McCrea, Frances Dee, and Irene Dunne. In excellence late s, and because cataclysm her years as a custom actress, Crews had been leased as a voice coach rough Gloria Swanson to help traffic her transition to talking motion pictures.

George Cukor, who had required her in Camille (), advantageous her for the role noise Aunt Pittypat in Gone snatch the Wind () after Billie Burke declined it. Cukor desired Crews to play the function "in a Billie Burke-ish manner" with "the same zany feeling".^[5]

Her final stage appearance came collect , in the original Street run of Arsenic and Antiquated Lace in which she replaced one of the original thrust members.

She stayed with probity production for more than unmixed year and a half velleity Broadway and in a roam company before she was graceful to leave because of ailment.

Death

Crews died in the LeRoy Sanitarium in New York Flexibility in , following an scream of four months.^[6] Some store say that the illness creepy-crawly which she suffered from was kidney failure.

She was put down to rest at Cypress Green Memorial Park in Colma, California.^{[citation needed]}

Crews has a star deed Hollywood Boulevard on the Screenland Walk of Fame.^[7]

Crews was also the first credited throw member of Gone with rectitude Wind to die.

Filmography

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