Kate Cutler

Kate Cutler

Born: August 14, 1870
Died: May 14, 1955
in London, England, UK
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Kate Ellen Louisa Cutler (14 August 1864 – 14 May 1955) was an English singer and actress, known in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as an ingénue in musical comedies, and later as a character actress in comic and dramatic plays. She is possibly best known for walking out of the lead role in Noël Coward's The Vortex in 1924 shortly before opening night.

Cutler performed in films between 1929 and 1938, including Such Is the Law (1930), The Great Gay Road (1931), Lord of the Manor (1933), Come Out of the Pantry (1935) and Moscow Nights (1935). Her last film was Pygmalion in 1938. The Manchester Guardian said of her in an obituary notice, "She proved that an actress who can play the lead in musical comedy can go on to play the lead in anything else. ... She was a really accomplished actress with that indefinable quality which we call style."

Cutler's second husband, Major Charles Dudley Ward, predeceased her. She died at her home in London, age 90.

Movies for Kate Cutler...

Pygmalion
Title: Pygmalion
Character: Grand Old Lady
Released: March 3, 1939
Type: Movie
When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous training after the professor comes to a financial agreement with her dustman father, Alfred. But the plucky young woman is not the only one undergoing a transformation.
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Action for Slander
Title: Action for Slander
Character: The Dowager
Released: July 21, 1937
Type: Movie
A bankrupt officer, accused of cheating at cards, defends his honour with a writ.
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When Knights Were Bold
Title: When Knights Were Bold
Character: Aunt Agatha
Released: February 18, 1936
Type: Movie
Happy-go-lucky soldier Guy De Vere must leave India and return to the family seat at Little Twittering, for he has inherited the family title. Sir Guy finds all his relatives to be frozen stuffed shirts... except lovely cousin Rowena, who is mad about knighthood and chivalry. Struck in the head by a falling suit of armor, Guy dreams he and Rowena are back in 1400, as the unabashed farce continues...
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The Black Mask
Title: The Black Mask
Character: Lady Mincott
Released: December 1, 1935
Type: Movie
British crime film directed by Ralph Ince
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Come Out of the Pantry
Title: Come Out of the Pantry
Character: Dowager Marchioness of Axminster
Released: November 22, 1935
Type: Movie
A Duke's son plays the part of a footman and shows himself amusing in the pantry.
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Moscow Nights
Title: Moscow Nights
Character: Madame Kovrin
Released: November 5, 1935
Type: Movie
During the First World War, Russian officer Ignatoff, wounded, falls in love with his nurse, Natasha. But she is subject to an upcoming marriage of family convenience to Brioukow, a wealthy industrialist of peasant stock. Brioukow is unjustifiably jealous, since Natasha has not betrayed him. He forces Ignatoff into his debt as a means of humiliating him. When Ignatoff's new friend, Madame Sabline, offers to pay his debt, preventing his ruin, Ignatoff comes quickly to realize that Madame Sabline has an ulterior motive, one that could prove dangerous to more lives than just Ignatoff's.
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That's a Good Girl
Title: That's a Good Girl
Character: Helen Malone
Released: September 29, 1933
Type: Movie
That's a Good Girl is a 1933 British comedy film directed by Jack Buchanan and starring Buchanan, Elsie Randolph and Dorothy Hyson. The film was based on a musical show of the same title that opened at the Lewisham Hippodrome on 19 March 1928, in which Jack Buchanan also starred. The music was written by Joseph Meyer and Phil Charig, with lyrics by Douglas Furber. The film omitted much of music of the original show, but popularised one song in particular, Fancy our Meeting. The song remained a Jack Buchanan favourite and a version of it was also recorded by Al Bowlly shortly after the film's release.
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Lord of the Manor
Title: Lord of the Manor
Character: Lady Bovey
Released: May 1, 1933
Type: Movie
Two aristocrats become engaged but fall in love with people from a lower class.
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To Brighton with Gladys
Title: To Brighton with Gladys
Character: Aunt Dorothy
Released: February 1, 1933
Type: Movie
Story of nephew's tribulations in conveying penguin to wealthy uncle's seaside home.
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Wedding Rehearsal
Title: Wedding Rehearsal
Character: Dowager Marchioness of Buckminster
Released: October 1, 1932
Type: Movie
The grandmother of a British nobleman, reluctant to marry, plays matchmaker. He outmaneuvers her by getting all of the matches married off .
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The Great Gay Road
Title: The Great Gay Road
Character: Aunt Jessie
Released: October 21, 1931
Type: Movie
'Romance of the open road and the circus. A tramp poses as baronet's lost son but relinquishes his sweetheart to a younger man.' (British Film Institute)
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Such Is the Law
Title: Such Is the Law
Character: Mother
Released: November 14, 1930
Type: Movie
A film directed by Sinclair Hill.
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Dark Red Roses
Title: Dark Red Roses
Character: Laura's Mother
Released: October 16, 1929
Type: Movie
David Cardew, a talented sculptor, lives an idyllic life in the English countryside with his wife, Laura, and their two children. But his happiness spoils as he becomes increasingly fixated on the idea that Laura is having an affair with a young cellist, Anton Falk. The three attend a fête where David watches Anton and Laura during a ballet about brutal and violent revenge - and his obsession begins to take an even darker turn....