Frieda Inescort

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1901-06-29 (75 years old)

Deathday

1976-02-26

Place of Birth

Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Frieda Inescort

Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Frieda Inescort (born Frieda Wrightman, 29 June 1901 – 26 February 1976) was a Scottish-born actress best known for creating the role of Sorel Bliss in Noël Coward's play Hay Fever on Broadway. She also played the shingled lady in John Galsworthy's 1927 Broadway production Escape. Inescort's acting debut came in The Truth About Blayds (1922), which was presented at the Booth Theatre on Broadway. Her other Broadway credits include You and I (1923), The Woman on the Jury (1923), Windows (1923), The Fake (1924), Ariadne (1925), Hay Fever (1925), Love in a Mist (1926), Mozart (1926), Trelawny of the "Wells...

Acting

1955

Foxfire

as Mrs. Lawrence

1951

A Place in the Sun

as Mrs. Ann Vickers

1943

The Return of the Vampire

as Lady Jane Ainsley

1939

Tarzan Finds a Son!

as Mrs. Lancing

1950

The Underworld Story

as Mrs. Eldridge

1941

You'll Never Get Rich

as Mrs. Julia Cortland

1942

Street of Chance

as Alma Diedrich

1956

The She-Creature

as Mrs. Chappel

1959

The Alligator People

as Mrs. Lavinia Hawthorne

1956

The Eddy Duchin Story

as Edith Wadsworth

1940

Pride and Prejudice

as Miss Caroline Bingley

1943

The Amazing Mrs. Holliday

as Karen Holliday

1940

The Letter

as Dorothy Joyce

1941

Shadows on the Stairs

as Mrs. Stella Rosabelle Armitage

1941

Sunny

as Elizabeth Warren

1937

Another Dawn

as Grace Roark

1960

The Crowded Sky

as Mrs. Mitchell

1937

The Great O'Malley

as Mrs. Philips

1939

Beauty for the Asking

as Flora Barton-Williams

1935

If You Could Only Cook

as Evelyn Fletcher

1936

The Garden Murder Case

as Mrs. Madge Fenwicke-Ralston

1940

Convicted Woman

as Attorney Mary Ellis

1958

Senior Prom

as Mrs. Sherridan

1941

Father's Son

as Ruth Emory

1955

Flame of the Islands

as Evelyn Hammond

1936

The King Steps Out

as Princess Helena

1959

Juke Box Rhythm

as Aunt Margaret

1942

Sweater Girl

as Mrs. Menard

1943

It Comes Up Love

as Portia Winthrop

1942

1954

Casanova's Big Night

as Signora Di Gambetta

1944

Heavenly Days

as Ettie Clark

1935

The Dark Angel

as Ann West

1939

The Zero Hour

as Linda Marsh

1936

Mary of Scotland

as Mary Beaton

1936

Give Me Your Heart

as Rosamond Melford

1947

The Judge Steps Out

as Evelyn Bailey

1937

Call It a Day

as Dorothy Hilton

1937

Portia on Trial

as Portia Merriman

1936

Hollywood Boulevard

as Alice Winslow

1941

1941

Remember the Day

as Mrs. Dewey Roberts

1939

Woman Doctor

as Dr. Judith Randall Graeme

1953

Never Wave at a WAC

as Lily Mae Gorham

1939

1943

Mission to Moscow

as Madame Molotov (uncredited)

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