Constance Cummings (May 15, 1910 – November 23, 2005)….

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1. Happy Heavenly Birthday. Constance Cummings CBE (May 15, 1910 — November 23, 2005) was a famous American-British actress with a career spanning over fifty years.

   Career

   The San Diego Stock Company gave Cummings her initial acting opportunity in a “walk-on part playing a prostitute in a 1926 production of Seventh Heaven.

   She debuted on Broadway as a chorus girl, a member of the ensemble in Treasure Girl (1928) by the age of 18.

   While appearing on Broadway, she was discovered by Samuel Goldwyn, who brought her to Hollywood in 1931. Between 1931 and 1934, Cummings appeared in more than 20 films, including Movie Crazy opposite Harold Lloyd and American Madness, directed by Frank Capra.

   She was married to the playwright and screenwriter Benn Levy from July 3, 1933 until his death in 1973. As Levy was from Britain, Cummings moved there and continued acting, both in films and on the stage, in Britain. Few of her films were hits in the U.S. although Blithe Spirit, adapted from the Noel Coward play, was popular. Levy went on to write and direct films for Cummings, such as The Jealous God (1939); he also served in the UK Parliament from 1945-50 as the Labour MP for Eton and Slough. They had a son and a daughter.

   She played Mary Tyrone in the Royal National Theatre’s production of Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night opposite Laurence Olivier and later recreated the role for televison. She also originated the role of Martha in Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf in its London debut. ????? R.I.P.????

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