Heather Angel

Heather Grace Angel (February 9, 1909 - December 13, 1986) was a British film actress.

Born in Oxford, England, Angel made her first film appearance with a leading role in Night in Montmartre (1931), and followed this success with The Hound of the Baskervilles (1932). Over the next few years she played strong roles in such films asThe Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935), The Three Musketeers (1935), The Informer (1935), The Last of the Mohicans (1936) and The Bold Caballero. In 1937 she made her first appearance in the popular Bulldog Drummond series, in a role she would eventually play in five films.

She was among the actresses considered and tested for the role of Melanie Wilkes in Gone With The Wind (1939), but despite being unsuccessful in securing this role, she was cast in such prestigious films as Pride and Prejudice (1940), Kitty Foyle (1940), That Hamilton Woman (1941), and two Alfred Hitchcock films, Suspicion (1941) and Lifeboat (1944). Her film appearances in the following years were few, but she returned to Hollywood to provide voices for the Walt Disney animated films Alice in Wonderland (1951) and Peter Pan (1953). She also played a continuing role in the television soap opera Peyton Place from 1964 until 1965.

She died from cancer in Santa Barbara, California.

Heather Angel has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to Motion Pictures, at 6312 Hollywood Boulevard.

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Born in Oxford, England, Angel made her first film appearance with a leading role in Night in Montmartre (1931), and followed this success with The Hound of the Baskervilles (1932). Baxter was survived upon her passing by her three adult daughters. Heather Grace Angel (February 9, 1909 - December 13, 1986) was a British film actress. Ms. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6741 Hollywood Blvd. In 1983, she starred in the television series Hotel.

Baxter never again married. Also during that decade, Baxter was married again briefly to a prominent stockbroker, but then she was abrubtly widowed with his sudden death to illness. Bette Davis tells, in one of her biographies, of attending one such performance by Baxter to their mutual delight. In an ironic twist, Baxter appeared again on Broadway during the 70s, in Applause, the musical version of All About Eve, but finally in the "Margo Channing" Role.

The role of Eve Harrington is, of course, Anne Baxter's enduring legacy. Though her second marriage to Galt did not last much longer, Baxter and Galt were blessed with two daughters together: Melissa and Maginel. In the book, Anne Baxter blamed the failure of her first marriage to Hodiak on herself. She told the story in her memoir Intermission: A True Story.

In 1961, Baxter and her second husband, Randolph Galt, left the United States to live and raise their kids on a cattle station in the Australian Outback. That union produced Baxter's oldest daughter Katrina. In the 50s, Baxter was married to and then divorced from actor John Hodiak. Baxter received a nomination for Best Actress for the role.

In 1950 she was chosen to star in All About Eve, largely because of a resemblance to Claudette Colbert, who had initially been chosen to co-star in the film. Baxter didn't have a starring role until The Razor's Edge in 1946, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She was chosen by Orson Welles to appear in The Magnificent Ambersons, based on the novel by Booth Tarkington. Her first movie role was in 20 Mule Team in 1940.

During this period, Baxter learned her acting craft as a student of the famed teacher, Madame Maria Ouspenskaya. By the age of 13, Anne had appeared on Broadway. Anne Baxter (May 7, 1923 - December 12, 1985) was an American actress. Born in Michigan City, Indiana, her maternal grandfather was architect Frank Lloyd Wright.