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Actor, Singer & Musician
Born Alice Kathleen HOWARD
Canadian-born opera singer (mezzo-soprano), magazine editor and US film character actress
Born on July 27, 1884 in Clifton, Ontario, Canada , Switzerland
Died on April 15, 1956 in Hollywood, California, USA
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She created the role of Zita in Giacomo Puccini's Gianni Schicchi at the Metropolitan Opera in 1918. She was also particularly memorable as the nagging, shrewish wife of W.C. Fields in a film that many historians consider to be his best and funniest, It's a Gift (1934); she additionally appeared in two other films of W.C. Fields: You're Telling Me! (1934) and Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935) (playing his wife for a second time in the latter).
... She spent her childhood in Buffalo, NY and is buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery there.
She created the role of Zita in Giacomo Puccini's Gianni Schicchi at the Metropolitan Opera in 1918. She was also particularly memorable as the nagging, shrewish wife of W.C. Fields in a film that many historians consider to be his best and funniest, It's a Gift (1934); she additionally appeared in two other films of W.C. Fields: You're Telling Me! (1934) and Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935) (playing his wife for a second time in the latter).
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