Actor
Frieda Inescort
Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Frieda Inescort (born Frieda Wrightman, 29 June 1901 – 26 February 1976) was a Scottish-born actress best known for creating the role of Sorel Bliss in Noël Coward's play Hay Fever on Broadway. She also played the shingled lady in John Galsworthy's 1927 Broadway production Escape. Inescort's acting debut came in The Truth About Blayds (1922), which was presented at the Booth Theatre on Broadway. Her other Broadway credits include You and I (1923), The Wom ...

Known For
Acting
1960 -- The Crowded Sky | Mrs. Mitchell
1959 -- Juke Box Rhythm | Aunt Margaret
1959 -- The Alligator People | Mrs. Lavinia Hawthorne
1958 -- Senior Prom | Mrs. Sherridan
1956 -- The She-Creature | Mrs. Chappel
1956 -- The Eddy Duchin Story | Edith Wadsworth
1955 -- Flame of the Islands | Evelyn Hammond
1955 -- Foxfire | Mrs. Lawrence
1954 -- Casanova's Big Night | Signora Di Gambetta
1953 -- Never Wave at a WAC | Lily Mae Gorham
1951 -- A Place in the Sun | Mrs. Ann Vickers
1950 -- The Underworld Story | Mrs. Eldridge
1947 -- The Judge Steps Out | Evelyn Bailey
1944 -- Heavenly Days | Ettie Clark
1943 -- The Return of the Vampire | Lady Jane Ainsley
1943 -- Why We Fight: The Battle of Britain | Narrator
1943 -- Mission to Moscow | Madame Molotov (uncredited)
1943 -- It Comes Up Love | Portia Winthrop
1943 -- The Amazing Mrs. Holliday | Karen Holliday
1942 -- Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6 |
1942 -- Street of Chance | Alma Diedrich
1942 -- Sweater Girl | Mrs. Menard
1942 -- The Courtship of Andy Hardy | Olivia Nesbit
1941 -- Remember the Day | Mrs. Dewey Roberts
1941 -- You'll Never Get Rich | Mrs. Julia Cortland
1941 -- Sunny | Elizabeth Warren
1941 -- Shadows on the Stairs | Mrs. Stella Rosabelle Armitage
1941 -- The Trial of Mary Dugan | Mrs. Wayne
1941 -- Father's Son | Ruth Emory
1940 -- The Letter | Dorothy Joyce
1940 -- Pride and Prejudice | Miss Caroline Bingley
1940 -- Convicted Woman | Attorney Mary Ellis
1939 -- A Woman is the Judge | Mary Cabot
1939 -- Tarzan Finds a Son! | Mrs. Lancing
1939 -- The Zero Hour | Linda Marsh
1939 -- Beauty for the Asking | Flora Barton-Williams
1939 -- Woman Doctor | Dr. Judith Randall Graeme
1937 -- Portia on Trial | Portia Merriman
1937 -- Another Dawn | Grace Roark
1937 -- Call It a Day | Dorothy Hilton
1937 -- The Great O'Malley | Mrs. Philips
1936 -- Give Me Your Heart | Rosamond Melford
1936 -- Hollywood Boulevard | Alice Winslow
1936 -- Mary of Scotland | Mary Beaton
1936 -- The King Steps Out | Princess Helena
1936 -- The Garden Murder Case | Mrs. Madge Fenwicke-Ralston
1935 -- If You Could Only Cook | Evelyn Fletcher
1935 -- The Dark Angel | Ann West
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