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Constance Emmeline Carpenter (19 April 1904 – 26 December 1992) was an English-born American film and musical theatre actress. ==Biography== Carpenter was born in Bath, Somerset, in 1904, the daughter of Harold Carpenter and his wife Mabel Anne, ''née'' Cottrell, music hall artists.〔(''New York Times'' obituary, 1 January 1993 )〕 Her first appearance on stage was with fellow-pupils of the Lila Field Academy, a stage school whose alumni included Noël Coward and Ninette de Valois.〔〔"The Little Theatre", The Times, 28 January 1911, p. 12; and ("Dame Ninette de Valois OM" ), ''The Daily Telegraph'', 9 March 2001〕 Her debut as an adult performer was in the C. B. Cochran revue ''Fun of the Fayre'' in 1921.〔 She made her Broadway debut in ''André Charlot's Revue of 1924''.〔 She remained in America for five years, appearing in was featured in ''The Charlot Revue of 1926'' in 1925–26, after which she playe Mae in George and Ira Gershwin's ''Oh, Kay!'' in 1926 and Alice Carter in the Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart and Herbert Fields musical ''A Connecticut Yankee'' in which she played for a year, from November 1927.〔 In 1929 Carpenter returned to London, appearing in Cochran and Charlot productions.〔 She appeared in pantomime at the Lyceum with Naughton and Gold in the Christmas 1930 season.〔"Robinson Crusoe", ''The Times'', 18 December 1930, p. 12〕 Throughout the 1930s she divided her time between English and American engagements.〔 In 1938 and 1939 she appeared in Terence Rattigan's long-running ''French Without Tears'' at the Criterion Theatre, London.〔"Theatres", ''The Times'', 28 November 1938, p. 12〕 During World War II, Carpenter entertained troops throughout Europe, the Middle East and Asia.〔 After returning to the United States in 1950, she took American citizenship.〔 Carpenter's most notable Broadway credit was ''The King and I'' in 1952 first as understudy to Gertrude Lawrence and then as the leading lady when Lawrence died during the run. In 1954 Carpenter appeared in London in ''An Evening with Beatrice Lillie''.〔"Simon And Laura", ''The Times'', 22 November 1954, p. 2〕 Her final Broadway appearance was in the Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee play ''The Incomparable Max'' (1971), based on stories by Max Beerbohm. Carpenter film credits were limited to ''Just for a Song'' (1929), ''Two Worlds'' (1930), and ''Brown Sugar'' (1931). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Constance Carpenter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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