(1901-1979)
Born in Chicago, the daughter of actor Otis Skinner, Cornelia Otis Skinner was educated at Bryn Mawr before joining her father in his production of Blood and Sand (1921). She appeared in many plays, including Will Shakespeare (1923), Tweedles (1923), In His Arms (1924), White Collars (1925), Candida (1939), Theatre* (1941), The Searching Wind* (1944), Lady Windermere's Fan (1946), Major Barbara (1956), and The Pleasure of His Company* (1958), which she co-authored with Samuel Taylor,* but Skinner gained enduring success with a long series of monodramas, including The Wives of Henry VIII (1931), The Empress Eugenie (1932), The Loves of Charles II (1933), and Paris '90 (1952).
The Historical Dictionary of the American Theater. James Fisher.