Constance Emmeline Carpenter ( April â€" December ) was an
English-born American film and musical theatre actress.Carpenter was
born in Bath, Somerset, in ,[n ] the daughter of Harold Carpenter and
his wife Mabel Anne, née Cottrell, music hall artists. Her first
appearance on stage was with fellow-pupils of the Lila Field Academy,
a stage school whose alumni included Noël Coward and Ninette de
Valois.Her debut as an adult performer was in the C. B. Cochran revue
Fun of the Fayre in . She made her Broadway debut in André Charlot's
Revue of . She remained in America for five years, appearing in The
Charlot Revue of in â€", after which she played Mae in George and Ira
Gershwin's Oh, Kay! in and Alice Carter in the Richard Rodgers,
Lorenz Hart and Herbert Fields musical A Connecticut Yankee in which
she played for a year, from November .
English-born American film and musical theatre actress.Carpenter was
born in Bath, Somerset, in ,[n ] the daughter of Harold Carpenter and
his wife Mabel Anne, née Cottrell, music hall artists. Her first
appearance on stage was with fellow-pupils of the Lila Field Academy,
a stage school whose alumni included Noël Coward and Ninette de
Valois.Her debut as an adult performer was in the C. B. Cochran revue
Fun of the Fayre in . She made her Broadway debut in André Charlot's
Revue of . She remained in America for five years, appearing in The
Charlot Revue of in â€", after which she played Mae in George and Ira
Gershwin's Oh, Kay! in and Alice Carter in the Richard Rodgers,
Lorenz Hart and Herbert Fields musical A Connecticut Yankee in which
she played for a year, from November .
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