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Cora Witherspoon
Cora Witherspoon (January 5, 1890 – November 17, 1957) was an American stage and film character actress whose career spanned nearly half a century. She began in theatre where she would remain rooted even after entering motion pictures in the early 1930s. As Witherspoon’s career progressed she carved out a niche playing haughty society women or harridan housewives such as Princess Lina in Ferenc Molnár's 1928 play, ''Olympia,'' or Agatha Sousè, W. C. Fields’ domineering spouse in the 1940 film, ''The Bank Dick''.〔The Play. ''The New York Times'', October 17, 1928, p. 26〕〔(Hémard, Ned – New Orleans Nostalgia ) Retrieved August 26, 2013〕 John Springer and Jack Hamilton, authors of ''They Had Faces Then: Super Stars, Stars, and Starlets of the 1930's'' (1974), wrote that "Witherspoon was blessed with a face that might have been drawn by one of those cartoonists who specialize in dealing with the war between men and women."〔(Nissen, Axel - Actresses of a Certain Character,'' 2006, p. 213 ) Retrieved August 26, 2013〕
==Early life==
She was born in New Orleans, to Cora S. Bell and Henry Edgeworth Witherspoon. Her father was an assistant surgeon with the Confederate Army during the American Civil War while her mother was an aunt of the civil rights advocate Judge John Minor Wisdom.〔(Freidman. ''Champion of Civil Rights: Judge John Minor Wisdom'' 2009, p. 4 ) retrieved August 24, 2013〕 Witherspoon was orphaned by age 10 and raised at least in part by her older sister, Maud, who, while still in her teens founded the ''Maud Witherspoon Rag Doll Manufacturing Company''.〔(In the Realm of Women.''The Indiana Weekly'', Volume 11, Issue 21, September 7, 1901, p. 5 ) Retrieved December 13, 2013〕〔(''Troy Daily Times'', "Women's World", column 2, January 22, 1902 ); retrieved August 24, 2013.〕〔Cora Witherspoon, Actress, 67, Is Dead; Performer 50 Years Made Bow at 15. ''New York Times'', November 19, 1957, p. 33.〕 Witherspoon's ancestors had reportedly once owned Ellington Plantation in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana.〔(Seebold, Herman de Bachelle - ''Old Louisiana Plantation Homes And Family Trees'' 2004, p. 104 ); retrieved August 26, 2013〕
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