Laura Hope Crews Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Laura Hope Crews (December 12, 1879 – November 12, 1942) was a leading actress of the American stage in the first decades of the 20th century who is best remembered today for her later work as a character actress in motion pictures of the 1930s. Her best-known film role was Aunt Pittypat in Gone with the Wind.
Unmarried. Survived by a sister, Mrs. Gene Hughes, and two brothers, William L. and Sherold D. Crews, all of San Rafael, California.
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Made her first appearance on the London Stage in 1909, in the play "The Great Divide.".
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1939 was Miss Crews busiest year in movies, with seven films to her credit, including "Idiot's delight," "The rains came," "The hunchback of Notre Dame," and most memorably of all, "Gone with the wind".
Biography in "Actresses of a Certain Character: Forty Familiar Hollywood Faces from the Thirties to the Fifties" by Axel Nissen.
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Her father, a carpenter, was also a member of the California Stock Company. Laura appeared on stage between the age of four and seven, then took time out for schooling, and returned playing ingenue roles from the age of 19. She was a leading lady in New York in the early 1900s, then gradually drifted to playing eccentric character parts. Best as Mrs. Phelps in both stage and screen versions of 'The Silver Chord'.
Despite her film resume, Laura Hope Crews considered herself a theatrical actress, appearing on Broadway from 1903 in over 40 major productions, literally until the day she died. She was cast in the smash hit "Arsenic and Old Lace" at the Fulton Theatre in the role of "Abby Brewster" in June, 1942. After her death that November 13th she was replaced by Patricia Collinge.
$1.1 Million
