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Coral Browne (23 July 1913 – 29 May 1991) was an Australian-American stage and screen actress. ==Career== Coral Edith Brown was the only daughter of a restaurant owner. She and her two brothers were raised in Footscray, a suburb of Melbourne, where she studied at the National Gallery Art School. Her amateur debut was as ''Gloria'' in Shaw's ''You Never Can Tell'', directed by Frank Clewlow. Gregan McMahon snapped her up for her professional debut as "Margaret Orme" in ''Loyalties'' at Melbourne's Comedy Theatre on 2 May 1931, aged 17. She was still billed as "Brown", the "e" being added in 1936.〔''Stars of Australian Stage and Screen'' Hal Porter, Rigby Ltd. Adelaide 1965〕 At the age of 21, with just £50 on her and a letter of introduction to famed actress Marie Tempest from Gregan McMahon,〔(''The Argus'' 3 April 1948 )〕 she emigrated to England where she became established as a stage actress, notably as leading lady to Jack Buchanan in Frederick Lonsdale's ''The Last of Mrs Cheyney'', W Somerset Maugham's ''Lady Frederick''〔 and Alan Melville's ''Castle in the Air''. She was a regular performer in productions at the Savoy Theatre in London and was resident in the hotel for many years, including throughout World War II. When the original British touring production of ''The Man Who Came To Dinner'' ran into financial difficulty and could not be produced in London, Browne borrowed money from her dentist and bought the rights to the play, successfully staging it at the Savoy.〔ISBN 978-0-312-26789-6. St. Martin's Griffin (15 October 2000)〕 She received royalties from the play from all future productions. She began film acting in 1936, with her more famous roles being Vera Charles in ''Auntie Mame'' (1958), Mercy Croft in ''The Killing of Sister George'' (1968), and Lady Claire Gurney in ''The Ruling Class'' (1972). In 1969, Browne appeared in the poorly received original production of Joe Orton's controversial farce ''What the Butler Saw'' in the West End at the Queen's Theatre with Sir Ralph Richardson, Stanley Baxter, and Hayward Morse. While touring the Soviet Union in a Shakespeare Memorial Theatre (later the Royal Shakespeare Company) production of ''Hamlet'' in 1958, she met the spy Guy Burgess.〔Alan Bennett gives the date of her meeting with Burgess as 1958 in the introduction to his ''Single Spies'', which contains the text of ''An Englishman Abroad'' as a stage play and the text of ''A Question of Attribution'' about Anthony Blunt. ''Single Spies'', London, Faber, 1989, ISBN 0-571-14105-6.〕 This meeting became the basis of Alan Bennett's script for the television movie ''An Englishman Abroad'' (1983) in which Browne played herself, apparently including some of her conversations with Burgess. Burgess, who had found solace in his exile by continually playing the music of Jack Buchanan, asked Browne if she had known Buchanan. "I suppose so", the actress replied, "we nearly got married". Her other notable film of this period, ''Dreamchild'' (1986) concerned the author Lewis Carroll. In the film, Browne gave an affecting account of the later life of Alice Liddell who had inspired the tale ''Alice in Wonderland''. 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「Coral Browne」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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