Eleanor Phelps was an American theater, film, radio, and television actress.
11 Facts About Eleanor Phelps
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Eleanor Phelps's father opposed her desire to appear on stage but her mom assisted her by introducing her to actor George Arliss.
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Eleanor Phelps visited Arliss at his elegant Beekman Place apartment and he tried to discourage Phelps from acting.
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Eleanor Phelps joined the University Players Guild for its first season of summer stock in West Falmouth on Cape Cod in 1928 along with Henry Fonda, Joshua Logan, Bretaigne Windust, Charles Leatherbee, Myron McCormick, Kent Smith, and others.
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Eleanor Phelps loved more than anything being in a play by Mister Shakespeare.
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Eleanor Phelps appeared in motion pictures in the early 1930s with roles in The Run Around, The Count of Monte Cristo, and Cleopatra.
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Eleanor Phelps believed that some of the best acting was in soap operas.
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On radio, Eleanor Phelps starred in Life and Love of Dr Susan on CBS beginning February 13,1939.
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Eleanor Phelps played a very rich lady, Grace Tyrrell, on The Secret Storm, from 1970 to 1973.
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Eleanor Phelps once did a commercial for Hershey in which she played an elegant lady getting in an elevator with a cow.
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Eleanor Phelps married actor Alden Chase, but the marriage was annulled in October 1935.