Cornelia Otis Skinner
Cornelia Otis Skinner was an American actress and writer. She made her stage debut in BLOOD AND SAND (1921) with her actor-father, Otis Skinner, who also collaborated on her first play, CAPTAIN FURY (... Read more
Cornelia Otis Skinner was an American actress and writer. She made her stage debut in BLOOD AND SAND (1921) with her actor-father, Otis Skinner, who also collaborated on her first play, CAPTAIN FURY (1925). In the 1930s she wrote and staged monodramas, including THE WIVES OF HENRY VIII and THE LOVES OF CHARLES II. She won acclaim in such plays as CANDIDA (1939), LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN (1946), and THE PLEASURE OF HIS COMPANY (1958), which she wrote with Samuel Taylor. She also co-wrote the best-seller “Our Hearts Were Young and Gay” (1942).