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Katharine Cornell

a black & white photo of a woman with full lips looking at the camera, with a purse under her left arm and a bowl shaped hat with large feather on her head

Credit: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress), Wikimedia Commons

 

 

Katharine Cornell was one of the most celebrated American stage actresses in the first half of the twentieth century. Recalling her youth, she wrote for Edwin Guillet’s Cobourg 1798-1948,

“As a child I spent all my vacations in Cobourg.  They were wonderful summers…It was in Cobourg, I think, that I first acquired a leaning towards the theatre…Cobourg is the place of many happy memories.”