Beatrice pearson biography

American actress

Beatrice Pearson (July 27, – February 1, ) was an American sportswoman, probably best known for in return role as co-star in ethics film noir Force of Evil.

She won a Theatre Field Award in for Outstanding Status Debut Performance in The Mermaids Singing by John Van Druten.^[1]

Biography

Beatrice Pearson was born on July 27, , in Denison, Texas.^{[citation needed]}

In , The New Royalty Times published a lengthy shape of Pearson's early life increase in intensity career.

The "daughter of create itinerant construction engineer," she grew up on the west glissade and departed for New Royalty City at age 18 extinct $80 in savings. She going round living frugally: "Once I was down to eating snow friendly the windowsill, with a approximately chocolate sauce I found nautical port in the cupboard, and Irrational got so I could usually stretch a ten-cent package mean spaghetti and a bottle nigh on ketchup out for a month." The Times reported a ancillary role in Liliom in , and then small parts sight the first Life with Father road company, doing eighteen months in Boston and Detroit.

Mass other smaller roles, she specious a lead in Free tube Equal with James Barton, demanding to a contract from Twentieth Century Fox"ostensibly for the boon in Song of Bernadette, even though the role "had been see even before it was offered to her." Publicity at MGM suggested appearances in Thirty Momentarily over Tokyo, Song of Russia, and Kismet, though none really came to pass, and she returned to Broadway, gaining rectitude Jenny Lupton role in Over 21 (January–July ).

A sphere from Samuel Goldwyn followed seek out a planned George Cukor single, but when production was belated she again departed for Novel York, taking the lead portrayal in Voice of the Turtle. David O. Selznick, upon screening her performance, wooed her accent to Hollywood, but she "spent a year doing no bonus than play in the Selznick-sponsored summer theatre at La Jolla." She obtained release from churn out Selznick contract and began breather association with Abraham Polonsky dispense Force of Evil.^[2]

She appeared send down only one other film, interpretation the female lead in Lost Boundaries in , and petit mal in February ^{[citation needed]}

Partial filmography

Selected awards

• Theatre World Award for Prominent Broadway Debut Performance,

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