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Katharine Cornell

1893 - 1974

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Katharine Cornell (February 16, 1893 – June 9, 1974) was an American stage actress, writer, theater owner and producer. She was born in Berlin to American parents and raised in Buffalo, New York. Dubbed "The First Lady of the Theatre" by critic Alexander Woollcott, Cornell was the first performer to receive the Drama League Award, for Romeo and Juliet in 1935. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Katharine Cornell has received more than 385,795 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Katharine Cornell is the 5,238th most popular actor (down from 5,184th in 2019), the 4,409th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,061st in 2019) and the 152nd most popular German Actor.

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  • 19

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  • 2.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.29

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Katharine Cornell ranks 5,238 out of 9,996Before her are Marie-Josée Croze, Azra Akın, Sara Allgood, Nana Visitor, Theresa Randle, and Ha Jung-woo. After her are Juliet Mills, Susan Lucci, Michael Rosenbaum, Tom Kenny, Oona Chaplin, and Julie Gayet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Katharine Cornell ranks 215Before her are Stasys Girėnas, Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas, Steingrímur Steinþórsson, Elizabeth Cotten, Marguerite Broquedis, and Fernando Altimani. After her are Nuriye Ulviye Mevlan Civelek, Carlos Alberto Arroyo del Río, Ina Claire, Romeo Bertini, Aksel Berg, and Harry Warren. Among people deceased in 1974, Katharine Cornell ranks 191Before her are Jaime Torres Bodet, Otto Kruger, Jimmy Hogan, José Vidal, Ferruccio Novo, and Mirdza Ķempe. After her are Þórbergur Þórðarson, Glenn Morris, Erskine Hamilton Childers, Arthur Crudup, Marieluise Fleißer, and Clyde Cowan.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Katharine Cornell ranks 4,409 out of 6,142Before her are Pief Panofsky (1919), Hansi Kürsch (1966), Karl Alfred von Zittel (1839), Dietmar Bartsch (1958), Christian Streich (1965), and Dietmar Hamann (1973). After her are Peter Baltes (1958), Max Hainle (1882), Christoph Metzelder (1980), Peter Dietrich (1944), Albert Ladenburg (1842), and Nathan Zach (1930).

Among ACTORS In Germany

Among actors born in Germany, Katharine Cornell ranks 152Before her are Gisela Uhlen (1919), Oliver Masucci (1968), Natja Brunckhorst (1966), Walter Giller (1927), Rosemary Murphy (1925), and Katja Riemann (1963). After her are André Hennicke (1958), Max Riemelt (1984), Martin Wuttke (1962), Gustav von Seyffertitz (1862), Michaela Schaffrath (1970), and Heiner Lauterbach (1953).

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