Constance Carpenter
| Constance Carpenter | |
|---|---|
| Born |
19 April 1904 Bath, Somerset, England, UK |
| Died | 26 December 1992 (aged 88) New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Nationality | United Kingdom United States |
| Other names | Constance Emmeline Carpenter |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Known for | Musical theatre |
Constance Emmeline Carpenter (19 April 1904 – 26 December 1992) was an English-born American film and musical theatre actress.
Carpenter was born in Bath, Somerset, in 1904, the daughter of Harold Carpenter and his wife Mabel Anne, née Cottrell, music hall artists. Her first appearance on stage was with fellow-pupils of the Lila Field Academy, a stage school whose alumni included Noël Coward and Ninette de Valois.
Her debut as an adult performer was in the C. B. Cochran revue Fun of the Fayre in 1921. She made her Broadway debut in André Charlot's Revue of 1924. She remained in America for five years, appearing in The Charlot Revue of 1926 in 1925–26, after which she played Mae in George and Ira Gershwin's Oh, Kay! in 1926 and Alice Carter in the Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart and Herbert Fields musical A Connecticut Yankee in which she played for a year, from November 1927.
In 1929 Carpenter returned to London, appearing in Cochran and Charlot productions. She appeared in pantomime at the Lyceum with Naughton and Gold in the Christmas 1930 season. Throughout the 1930s she divided her time between English and American engagements. In 1938 and 1939 she appeared in Terence Rattigan's long-running French Without Tears at the Criterion Theatre, London.
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