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Louisa Lane Drew (January 10, 1820 – August 31, 1897) was an English-born American actress and theatre owner and an ancestor of the Barrymore acting family. [1] . Professionally, she was often known as Mrs. John Drew . Life and career. Mrs. John Drew as Mrs. Malaprop in an all-star Broadway revival of The Rivals (1895)
Louisa Lane Drew (born Jan. 10, 1820, London, Eng.—died Aug. 31, 1897, Larchmont, N.Y., U.S.) was a noted American actress and manager of Mrs. John Drew’s Arch Street Theatre company in Philadelphia, which was one of the finest in American theatre history.
British actress and theater manager. Name variations: Mrs. John Drew. Born Louisa Lane on January 10, 1820, at Lambeth Parish, London, England; died in Larchmont, New York, on August 31, 1897; daughter of Eliza Trentner (an actress) and William Haycraft Lane (an actor and stage manager); married Henry Blaine Hunt, in 1836 (divorced 1846 ...
15 de abr. de 2019 · Like Drew Barrymore, Thomas Haycraft Lane and Louisa Rouse Lane’s grandchild Louisa Lane Drew started acting at a young age. She was considered a child prodigy, playing The Duke of York in Shakespeare’s Richard III opposite actor Junius Brutus Booth (aka the father of John Wilkes and Edwin Booth) in one of her first roles.
Drew family, American theatre family. Louisa Lane (later Louisa Lane Drew; 1820–97) began her stage career at age eight in Philadelphia, where her widowed mother had brought her from England. Her many successful parts included Lady Teazle, Mrs. Malaprop, and such “breeches” roles as Shakespeare’s
24 H. L. Kleinfield, “Drew, Louisa Lane,” ed. Edward T James, Janet Wilson James, and Paul S. Boyer. Notable American Women, 1607-1950; A Biographical Dictionary (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1971), 521-522.
THE DUCHESS: AN ANALYSIS OF THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF LOUISA LANE DREW | Semantic Scholar. Corpus ID: 162836580. THE DUCHESS: AN ANALYSIS OF THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF LOUISA LANE DREW. R. Kelly. Published 2014. Art, History.
