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Leueen MacGrath
Leueen MacGrath

Leueen MacGrath

LEUEEN MACGRATH Born in London in 1914, Leueen MacGrath began her career as an actress with the 1936 film Whom The Gods Love, a biopic about Mozart and his wife Constanze, followed by Pygmalion and a series of B-movies: All Hands, Meet Maxwell Archer, The Saint’s Vacation. In 1948, MacGrath made her Broadway debut in Edward, My Son; she reprised her role in the film adaptation the following year. In 1951 she collaborated with her husband, George Kaufman and Heywood Hale Broun on The Small Hours, which closed after 20 performances. The following year MacGrath and Kaufman staged the even less successful Fancy Meeting You Again (in which she starred), which ran for only 8 performances. The couple found success with Cole Porter and Abe Burrows in 1955 with Silk Stockings, based on the Melchior Lengyel story Ninotchka and the 1939 film adaptation it inspired. MacGrath appeared in a number of popular American anthology TV series including The Philco Television Playhouse, Studio One, Lux Video Theatre, The United States Steel Hour, The Alcoa Hour, and Hallmark Hall of Fame. MacGrath returned to the UK following her divorce from Kaufman. She died of complications from a stroke in London at the age of 77.

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