1. Kathleen Mary Nesbitt was born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, in 1888.
18 Facts About Cathleen Nesbitt
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Cathleen Nesbitt's parents were Thomas and Mary Catherine Nesbitt.
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Cathleen Nesbitt was educated in Lisieux, France, and at the Queen's University of Belfast and the Sorbonne.
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Cathleen Nesbitt made her debut in London in the stage revival of Arthur Wing Pinero's The Cabinet Minister.
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Cathleen Nesbitt was in the cast of John Millington Synge's The Playboy of the Western World with the Irish Players when the whole cast was pelted with fruits and vegetables by the offended Irish American Catholic audience.
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Cathleen Nesbitt returned to the US and appeared on Broadway in Quinneys and John Galsworthy's Justice as John Barrymore's leading lady in his first dramatic stage role.
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Cathleen Nesbitt did not appear in a film again until 1930, when she played the role of Anne Lymes in Canaries Sometimes Sing, which was an early talkie.
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Cathleen Nesbitt appeared in the 1938 film version of Pygmalion as "a lady" who attends the Embassy ball.
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Cathleen Nesbitt was Cary Grant's Grandmother Janou in 1957's An Affair to Remember and, the following year, was part of the ensemble cast of Separate Tables.
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Cathleen Nesbitt appeared in The Parent Trap, and Promise Her Anything.
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Cathleen Nesbitt reprised the role in 1981, in her 90s, in a Broadway revival, opposite Harrison, who was in his 70s.
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Cathleen Nesbitt portrayed Agatha Morley, the mother of a Congressman and mother-in-law to his former governess, in the TV series The Farmer's Daughter from 1963 to 1966.
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Cathleen Nesbitt guest starred on such shows as The United States Steel Hour; Wagon Train; Naked City, Dr Kildare and Upstairs, Downstairs.
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In 1969, Cathleen Nesbitt played Richard Burton's mother in the film Staircase and again in Villain two years later.
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Cathleen Nesbitt had a small but memorable role as an elderly drug addict in French Connection II alongside Gene Hackman.
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Cathleen Nesbitt then appeared as the grandmother in Julia.
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In 1912, Cathleen Nesbitt became the love of English poet Rupert Brooke, who wrote love sonnets to her.
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Cathleen Nesbitt lived for many years in the United States, but returned to the United Kingdom, where she was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1978.