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3 unusual facts about Winifred Lenihan


Winifred Lenihan

Even many years later, theater writers were still praising her performance whenever they mentioned "Saint Joan." Brooks Atkinson wrote in The Times that Miss Lenihan and Katharine Cornell, who played the role later, "left their marks on the part, for both of them had something genuine to give it."

When "Saint Joan" had its world premiere at the Garrick Theater in New York in 1923, a slim blue-eyed actress of limited experience was chosen for the role of Joan of Orleans.

At Bryant High School in Queens, she organized a dramatic company and played leads.



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