- Ina Claire, Claudia, 1943. For the bantering mother of the titular child bride Dorothy McGuire, all of 27!), producer David O Selznick looked over Beverly Bayne, Mrs Brown in the Chicago stage production, and Frances Starr, the original mother on Broadway. Plus Ina Claire (the ex-Mrs John Gilbert), whose dozen movies included Garbo’s Ninotchka, 1939… and Marion Davies, but her all-powerful lover, media tycoon William Randolph Hearst, didn’t want to see her playing someone who died. So no Ophelia or Joan of Ark for her.
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