| farah ashraf |
French-born American actress in theater and cinema, born on September 13, 1903. She grew up in New York City, and made her debut in Broadway productions during the 1920s. She built a successful film career with Paramount Pictures and rose to prominence as one of the leading proponents of the film genre known as awkward comedy. She was the highest-paid actress in American cinema throughout the 1930s and later became a freelance actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her comedy performance in It Happened One Night (1934), and she also received Academy Award nominations for her dramatic roles in Private Worlds (1935), and Since You Went Away (1944). In the fifties, her cinematic work diminished, and she retired from film industry in 1961, then returned to the theater beside her brief appearance from time to time on television. Late in her life, she moved to Barbados, where she died on July 30, 1996 at the age of 92 after suffering a number of strokes. She received theater awards from the Sarah Seddons community, and another award for the achievements she achieved throughout her career from the Kennedy Center Award. In addition to that in 1999 the American Film Institute placed her in the 12th place on the list of the "American Film Institute 100 Years...100 Actors" The 50 Greatest Legends of the American Screen.
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