Edith Atwater
Edith Atwater
American actress Edith Atwater gained Broadway fame in 1939 as the original Maggie Cutler in Kaufman and Hart's The Man Who Came to Dinner. This role was played in the film version of Dinner by Bette Davis; it was Edith Atwater's fate (not unusual among theatrical performers) to be ideal for leading roles on stage, but to be consigned to supporting roles in films. The actress began her stage career at age 15; she made her first film, We Went to College, in 1935. Her best known film appearance was producer Val Lewton's The Body Snatcher (1945), as the mother of a crippled child. Fans of the 1970s TV series The Hardy Boys will remember Ms. Atwater as the Hardy brothers' Aunt Gertrude. Edith Atwater was married to actor Kent Smith, whom she outlived by only one year. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Filmography of Edith Atwater:
- It Happened at the World's Fair with Elvis Presley , Joan O'Brien , Gary Lockwood , Vicky Tiu , H.M. Wynant , Yvonne Craig , Guy Raymond , Dorothy Green , Kam Tong , John Day , Jacqueline DeWit , Evelyn Dutton , Sandra Giles , Linda Humble , John Indrisano , Troy Melton , Kurt Russell , Olan Soule , Russell Thorson , Ginny Tiu , Red West , Robert B. Williams , Wilson Wood
- Sweet Smell of Success with Burt Lancaster , Tony Curtis , Susan Harrison , Martin Milner , Sam Levene , Barbara Nichols , Jeff Donnell , Joseph Leon , Emile G. Meyer , Joe Frisco , David White , Lawrence Dobkin , Lurene Tuttle , Queenie Smith , Autumn Russell , Jay Adler , Lewis Charles , Chico Hamilton
- Family Plot with Karen Black , Bruce Dern , Barbara Harris , William Devane , Ed Lauter , Cathleen Nesbitt , Katherine Helmond , Warren J. Kemmerling , William Prince , Nicholas Colasanto , Marge Redmond , John Lehne , Charles Tyner , Alexander Lockwood , Martin West , Louise Lorimer , Kate Murtagh , Clint Young
- Strange Bedfellows with Rock Hudson , Gina Lollobrigida , Gig Young , Edward Judd , Terry-Thomas , Arthur Haynes , Nancy Kulp , Howard St. John , Dave King , Peggy Rea , Joseph Sirola , Lucy Landau , Bernard Fox , James McCallion , Hedley Mattingly , John Orchard , Henry Corden , Maurice Dallimore , Arthur E. Gould-Porter , Dinah Anne Rogers , Simon Scott , Frederic Worlock , Alan Caillou
- True Grit with John Wayne , Glen Campbell , Kim Darby , Jeremy Slate , Robert Duvall , Dennis Hopper , Alfred Ryder , Strother Martin , Jeff Corey , Ron Soble , James Westerfield , John Doucette , Donald Woods , Carlos Rivas , Isabel Boniface , John M. Pickard , Elizabeth Harrower , Ken Renard , Jay Ripley , Ken Becker , Myron Healey , Boyd "Red" Morgan , Connie Sawyer , Jay Silverheels , Guy Wilkerson , Hank Worden , John Fiedler , H.W. Gim
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