Norma Mitchell
Norma Mitchell is a Broadway performer known for Autumn Hill, Baby, Cradle Snatchers, and Post Road. Explore their Broadway credits, shows, and songs below.
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Norma Stafford Mitchell (May 8, 1884 – May 29, 1967) was an American actress and playwright whose Broadway career spanned from 1910 to 1942. Born in Eastham, Massachusetts, she was the daughter of George William Mitchell and Mary Louisa Horton Mitchell; her father worked as a mining engineer.
Mitchell's performing career on Broadway encompassed a range of comedies and dramas. Her stage appearances included The Call of the Cricket (1910), The Truth Wagon (1912), Her Husband's Wife (1917), March Hares (1921), To the Ladies (1922), The Goldfish (1922), Why Not? (1922), The New Poor (1924), and Dancing Mothers (1924). She also appeared in three films: The Woman Accused (1933), Melody in Spring (1934), and Susan and God (1940).
Alongside her acting work, Mitchell established herself as a playwright. Her first produced play, Cradle Snatchers (1925), was written in collaboration with Russell G. Medcraft and starred Mary Boland, Edna May Oliver, and a young Humphrey Bogart. The comedy proved durable enough to be adapted for the screen on three separate occasions: as Cradle Snatchers (1927), as Why Leave Home? (1929), and as the Cole Porter musical Let's Face It (1943). Mitchell and Medcraft collaborated a second time on Buy, Buy, Baby (1926). Mitchell also wrote a sketch titled "Her Morning Bath," which vaudeville star Charlotte Greenwood made popular in 1926.
Mitchell married twice. Her first husband was journalist and playwright Hayden Talbot, with whom she had a daughter, editor Betsy Blackwell; the couple married in 1913 and divorced in 1921. In 1932, she married writer Wilbur Daniel Steele in London. Mitchell and Steele coauthored two plays together: Any Woman (1934) and Post Road (1934–1935). Post Road later reached television audiences in adaptations for Robert Montgomery Presents in 1952 and for Encounter in 1956. Mitchell's final Broadway play, Autumn Hill (1942), was written with John Harris.
Mitchell died on May 29, 1967, in Greenwich, Connecticut, at the age of 83. Her husband Wilbur Daniel Steele survived her.
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- Died
- May 29, 1967
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