Cornelia Otis Skinner

Ethel Barrymore, Basil Rathbone, Cornelia Otis Skinner, and Judith Anderson regularly trod the boards of rather humble New England playhouses, long after they had achieved their fame.

Tragedy and Comedy in New England Jacqueline T Lynch 2009

Ethel Barrymore, Basil Rathbone, Cornelia Otis Skinner, and Judith Anderson regularly trod the boards of rather humble New England playhouses, long after they had achieved their fame.

Archive 2009-01-01 Jacqueline T Lynch 2009

Dodie knew that getting me started on Cornelia Otis Skinner she would never henceforward know any peace.

Kevin Killian: What I Saw at the Orono Conference 2008, part 7 Dodie Bellamy 2008

"The Pleasure of His Company" is jointly credited to Cornelia Otis Skinner, a once-popular stage comedienne who starred in the original Broadway production, and Samuel Taylor, a now-forgotten commercial playwright best known for his work on the screenplays of Billy Wilder's "Sabrina" (which was adapted from "Sabrina Fair," one of Taylor's Broadway hits) and Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo."

Charming to a Fault 2008

American girls abroad -- it's a subject that has provided rich material for writers from Henry James to Edith Wharton, from Louisa May Alcott to Cornelia Otis Skinner to Laurie Colwin.

History without the heat 2008

Dodie knew that getting me started on Cornelia Otis Skinner she would never henceforward know any peace.

Archive 2008-10-01 Dodie Bellamy 2008

In a 1956 special issue of Life magazine on women, Cornelia Otis Skinner said of feminism, "We have won our case, but for heaven's sake let's stop trying to prove it over and over again."

1968 the Year that Rocked the World Kurlansky, Mark 2004

Tallulah Bankhead and Cornelia Otis Skinner, she recalled in a 1987 Associated Press interview.

latimes.com - News 2011

(Susan Redlich, Sidney, Ohio) “The funniest book I have ever read was ‘Our Hearts Were Young and Gay: An Unforgettable Comic Chronicle of Innocents Abroad in the 1920s’ by Cornelia Otis Skinner and Emily Kimbrough.”

More Funny Books to Read 2009

To not stare requires looking very pointedly in other directions, which may make the whole issue more a matter of consciousness than it was meant to be, and may also express too vividly an incapacity or a distaste for engagement with those present.2 A lengthy illustration may be taken from a very relevant essay by Cornelia Otis Skinner called“Where to Look:”

Behavior in Public Places ERVING GOFFMAN 1963