Lucile Watson

Nacimiento
27 de mayo de 1879 · Québec City, Quebec, Canada
Fallecimiento
24 de junio de 1962 · Nueva York, Nueva York, Estados Unidos (un ataque al corazón)
Nombre de nacimiento
Rosine Mary Lucile Watson

Appeared in three Oscar Best Picture nominees: Tres diablillos (1936), Alarma en el Rhin (1943) and El filo de la navaja (1946).
Biography in "Actresses of a Certain Character: Forty Familiar Hollywood Faces from the Thirties to the Fifties" by Axel Nissen.
Alumna of the AADA (American Academy of Dramatic Arts), Class of 1902.
On her father's tombstone, in Canada, is listed a child buried with him called 'Baby Fellowes'. It is unknown if this child was an offspring of Lucille and first husband Rockliffe Fellowes and presumably the child died as an infant. Neither Lucille nor Rockliffe mentioned the baby during their lives or time together.
A devout political conservative.

To become a comedienne is the most difficult of all, I think, but it is also difficult to continue to be one after you have learned the technique.
Not a single manager in New York had faith in me. They all said: 'Oh, why not go on being yourself? It is foolish to try to play other sorts of roles,' not realizing that I wasn't being myself at all. That person they saw on the stage was not I. It was something which I had created, and one day I found myself almost in the position of Frankenstein. It wasn't I, but it was a strong as I, and in another season I felt that that person which managers and public thought I was would have dominated me completely. There would have been no I - only It.
It was all an accident in the first place, my being a comedienne. I came down from Canada to go to dramatic school here in New York. They gave each of the prospective pupils a book and said now sit here and be reading and when you hear a loud knock at the door just follow your impulse, only do something. When the knock came I grabbed my book and sat on it and tried to look demure as I said 'Come in.' immediately they said, 'She is a comedienne,' and they started to drill me in the way a good comedienne should go.