Cornelia Otis Skinner (30 May, 2018 – ) an American author, playwright, and actress. She is best remembered for her 1942 best-seller Our Hearts were young and Gay which is a humorist travelogue of a trip she took with her co-author Emily Kimbrough when they were young and naïve.
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- Cornelia Otis Skinner was born in Chicago, IL. Both of her parents were actors. Otis Skinner was one of the most renowned actors of his generation. Maude Durbin Skinner, was a leading lady in his company.
- The Skinner family traveled far and wide both in the US and Europe.
- Ms. Skinner got her bachelor’s degree from Bryn Mawr College. She fully admitted that she was not very studious. She went on to study theater at the famed Sorbonne in Paris.
- When Cornelia Otis Skinner was 20 years old, she made her Broadway acting debut in her father’s company. She played Dona Sarasate in Blood and Sand, written by Tom Cushing.
- By her mid-20s, Ms. Skinner was already writing her own monologues, which were developed into monodramas. It was said she performed the different characters with great skill.
- Besides monodramas, Ms. Skinner also write humorous pieces for newspapers and magazines, including the New Yorker. Her writings were compiled into a series of books.
- She starred in George Bernard Shaw’s Candida (1939) which brought her great success and renown.
- In her book Our Hearts were young and Gay , she recounts how she and her friend, two naïve women, stayed at a French brothel thinking it was boarding house. The book was adapted into a film, and a 1950s TV series called The Girls.
- Cornelia Otis Skinner married Alden Sanford Blodget in 1928. The couple had one child, Otis Skinner Blodget.
- Cornelia Otis Skinner was known enough to play herself in the movie Stage Door Canteen (2943).
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Sources:
Cornelia Otis Skinner | Wikipedia
Cornelia Otis Skinner: American actress and author | Britannica
Actress Cornelia Otis Skinner, 78, Dies Was Playwright, Biographer, Humorist | The Washington Post
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