Jane Cowl

Background

Cowl was born as Jane Bailey on December 14, 1883 in Boston, Massachusetts to Charles Bailey and Grace Avery.

Education

She attended Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, New York. Then she was educated at Columbia University, New York City, where she graduated in 1906.

Career

Her first part was as Fanny Perry in Is Matrimony a Failure? in 1909. She scored her first big success as Jeannine in Lilac Time (1917 - 1918), of which, with Jane Murfin, she was part author. The same authors collaborated in Smilin' Through (1919 - 1922), and this proved to be another success. Miss Cowl played Juliet in Romeo and Juliet in 1923, and in 1925 and 1926 she toured England and America in Noel Coward's Easy Virtue. Other plays in which she had memorable successes were The Road to Rome (1927 - 1928), Rain from Heaven (1934), First Lady (1935 - 1936), Merchant of Yonkers (1939), and Old Acquaintance (1940 - 1941). She died in Santa Monica, California, on June 22, 1950.

Achievements

• She was an American film and stage actress and playwright "notorious for playing lachrymose parts". Actress Jane Russell was named in Cowl's honor.

Works

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  • Stage Door Canteen

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  • The Sellout

    (Respected newspaperman Haven D. Allridge (Walter Pidgeon)...)

Connections

Cowl married Adolph Edward Klauber, the drama critic of The New York Times. He and Cowl separated in 1930, shortly after his health began to fail. The couple had no children.

Father:

Charles Bailey

Mother:

Grace Avery

Spouse:

Adolph Edward Klauber