Constance Cummings

Constance Cummings
Birth Name: Constance Halverstadt
Born: May 15, 1910
Seattle, WA
Career: 1931-1986
Countries: UK
USA
Genre/Type: Comedy
Drama
Mystery
Crime
Romance
Biography by Hal Erickson
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 remained for the rest of her career. Matriculating into a topnotch character actress, Constance starred in the London production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, and appeared opposite Laurence Olivier in Long Day's Journey Into Night. Constance Cummings was honored with the Order of the British Empire in 1974, and in 1979 she won a "Best Actress" Tony for her Broadway performance in Arthur Kopit's Wings.

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Filmography

Movie/Film Released Rating Role Buy
Dead Man's Folly 1986 Actor [Starring]
Love Song 1985 Actor [Starring]
Long Day's Journey into Night 1973 Actor [Starring]
Jane Eyre 1971 Actor [Starring]
A Boy Ten Feet Tall 1963 Actor [Starring]
In the Cool of the Day 1963 Actor [Starring]
The Outsider 1961 Actor [Starring]
The Battle of the Sexes 1960 Actor [Starring]
Finger of Guilt 1956 Actor [Starring]
John and Julie 1955 Actor [Starring]
Three's Company 1953 Actor [Starring]
Into the Blue 1951 Actor [Starring]
Blithe Spirit 1945 Actor [Starring]
The Foreman Went to France 1942 Actor [Starring]
This England 1941 Actor [Starring]
Haunted Honeymoon 1940 Actor [Starring]
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Constance Cummings Dies (From WENN. 29 November 2005)
Constance Cummings, CBE (May 15 1910 – November 23 2005) was an American-born British actress, known for her work on both screen and stage. Born Constance Halverstadt in Seattle, Washington to Dallas Halverstadt and Kate Cummings, she began...
Constance Cummings was born in Seattle, Washington, USA

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