May Whitty
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Dame Mary Louise Webster, known professionally as May Whitty and later, for her charity work, Dame May Whitty, was an English stage and film actress. She was one of the first two women entertainers to
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Margaret Webster
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Margaret Webster was an American-British theater actress, producer and director. Critic George Jean Nathan described her as "the best director of the plays of Shakespeare that we have."
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…States, where Whitty appeared on Broadway. Their first child, a son, died at birth. Their only surviving child, a daughter born in New York in 1905, Margaret Webster, was a producer who held dual US and UK citizenship. She was chair of the Actresses' Franchise League (AFL). Whitty's stage career continued for the…
Scene from Margaret Webster's Broadway production of Othello (1943) with Uta Hagen as Desdemona, Webster as Emilia, and Jack Manning as Roderigo