Leueen MacGrath (3 July 1914 – 27 March 1992) was an English actress and playwright and the second wife of George S. Kaufman, from 1949 until their divorce in 1957.Born in London, England, MacGrath (pronounced mac-GRAW) began her acting career with a small role in the 1936 British film Whom the Gods Love, a biopic about Mozart and his wife Constanze. She followed this with Pygmalion and a series of B-movies, including All Hands, Meet Maxwell Archer, and The Saint's Vacation.MacGrath made her Broadway debut in 1948 in the play Edward, My Son (she reprised her role in the film adaptation the following year) in which the stars were Spencer Tracy and Deborah Kerr; MacGrath not only kept up with these two stars but, in this writer's opinion, she outshone Deborah Kerr in her small role during which she played the part of Spencer's extra-marital love interest as Spencer's clerk. And in a part that is usually played by a character actor in order to further develop Spencer's character, she literally stole this section of the movie from Tracy and Kerr. In 1951 she collaborated with Kaufman and Heywood Hale Broun on the writing of The Small Hours, which closed after 20 performances. The following year she and her husband scripted the even less successful Fancy Meeting You Again (in which she starred), which ran for only 8 performances. The couple finally achieved a hit in 1955 with Silk Stockings, the Cole Porter musical for which they co-wrote the book with Abe Burrows. She returned to acting for Tiger at the Gates and The Potting Shed.Having settled in the United States following her marriage to Kaufman, MacGrath appeared in a number of American anthology television series popular in the 1950s, including The Philco Television Playhouse, Studio One, Lux Video Theatre, The United States Steel Hour, The Alcoa Hour, and Hallmark Hall of Fame.MacGrath returned to the United Kingdom following her divorce. She died of complications from a stroke in London at the age of 77.
Fecha de nacimiento
1914-07-03
Año de nacimiento
1914
Fecha de defunción
1992-03-27
Año de defunción
1992
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