Windsor Berkshire
Local news for Windsor Berkshire UK.Friday, January 23, 2009
Windsor's famous residents of the past.
Laura Constance Hardie was born in Windsor in 1878 and joined the theatre at an early age. Taking the stage name Constance Collier, in 1906 she played opposite the legendary Berbohm Tree in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra at His Majesty's Theatre in London's West End. Constance later moved to America and became a star, appearing in Alfred Hitchcock's "Rope" (1948), and Otto Preminger's "Whirlpool" (1949). She became a noted acting coach and trained Katharine Hepburn to play Shakespeare in the 1950's. Constance Collier died in 1955.
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