Born in Baltimore, she discovered drama at Goucher College, later taught English while earning an M.A. at Columbia and refined her technique at the Actors Studio with Lee Strasberg, Robert Lewis and Elia Kazan. Early Broadway roles in Life Begins (1932) and The Hill Between (1938) led to acclaim as a Welsh schoolteacher in The Corn Is Green (1940) and a screen debut in its 1945 film version.
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