Katharine Cornell(1893-1974)

In the film El hombre que vino a cenar (1941), a film noted for dropping the names of famous persons of the day, Cornell's name is dropped more than that of any other celebrity.

I drifted into acting. My grandfather had a house in Buffalo in which there was a stage and his friends met every two weeks or so to put on plays. So it was natural for me to put on plays too when I went to boarding school. I put on everything in the drama - I was indiscriminate. I put on Yeats and Shaw and Lady Gregory.