After her death in 1958, her body was donated to medical science.
Initially a student instructor at London's Academy of Dramatic Art.
Made her Broadway debut in 1912 with "Fanny's First Play."
Plays all sorts of film moms throughout the 30s and 40s -- elegant, countrified, pleasant and prickly.
Starred in English silent films between 1913 and 1917. From 1918, worked in the United States, becoming a member of the Theatre Guild. In Hollywood from 1935, usually seen as cranky or narrow-minded aunt or mother.
This woman's composure and customary dignity are distinctly ruffled when she is literally spanked on her bottom by a grizzly 'George 'Gabby' Hayes' in the John Wayne 1944 mystery-western, Tall in the Saddle (1944).