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Cornelia Otis Skinner : ウィキペディア英語版 | Cornelia Otis Skinner
Cornelia Otis Skinner (May 30, 1899 – July 9, 1979) was an American author and actress. ==Biography== Skinner was the daughter of the actor Otis Skinner and his wife, Maud Durbin. After attending the all-girls' Baldwin School and Bryn Mawr College (1918–1919) and studying theatre at the Sorbonne in Paris, she began her career on the stage in 1921. She appeared in several plays before embarking on a tour of the United States from 1926 to 1929 in a one-woman performance of short character sketches she herself wrote. She wrote numerous short humorous pieces for publications like The New Yorker. These pieces were eventually compiled into a series of books, including ''Nuts in May'', ''Dithers and Jitters'', ''Excuse It Please!'', and ''The Ape in Me'', among others. With Emily Kimbrough, she wrote ''Our Hearts Were Young and Gay'', a light-hearted description of their European tour after college. Kimbrough and Skinner went to Hollywood to act as consultants on the film version of the book, which resulted in the delightful film of the same name and starred Gail Russell playing Skinner. Skinner was portrayed by Bethel Leslie replaced by Gloria Stroock in the short-lived 1950 television series ''The Girls'', based upon ''Our Hearts Were Young and Gay''. In 1952, her one-woman show ''Paris '90'' (music and lyrics by Kay Swift) premiered on Broadway. An original cast recording was produced by Goddard Lieberson for Columbia Records, now available on compact disc. In later years Skinner wrote ''Madame Sarah'' (a biography of Sarah Bernhardt) and ''Elegant Wits and Grand Horizontals'' about the Belle Epoque. She appeared with Orson Welles on ''The Campbell Playhouse'' radio play of ''The Things We Have'' on May 26, 1939. In a 1944 conversation with Victor Borge, Skinner reportedly told the Danish comedian that she decided to drop the term “diseuse" from her act after reading in a Scottish newspaper: “Cornelia Otis Skinner, the American disease, gave a program last night.”〔''Salt Lake Tribune'', June 2, 1944, p. 14〕
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