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Lucile Watson was a Canadian actress, long based in the United States. She was "famous for her roles of formidable dowagers."

Watson in 1953

Watson as Fanny Farrelly in the original Broadway production of Watch on the Rhine, 1941

Frame from trailer for Waterloo Bridge, 1940. Note her name is misspelled in the credit

Watson in the movie trailer My Forbidden Past (1951)

Watch on the Rhine (play)

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Watch on the Rhine is a 1941 American play by Lillian Hellman. In an essay on World War II, a contributor to The Companion to Southern Literature (2002) wrote that the play's "peculiar combination of drawing-room comedy in a genteel southern home with sinister corruption of the Nazi regime in Europe made for a unique and powerful drama, one strong enough to win the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award."

First edition 1941

Paul Lukas as Kurt Mueller in the original Broadway production of Watch on the Rhine (1941)

Mady Christians and Paul Lukas in the Broadway production of Watch on the Rhine

Lucile Watson in the Broadway production of Watch on the Rhine