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Occupation
  
Actress

Years active
  
1936–1963


Name
  
Louise Platt

Role
  
Theater Actress

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Born
  
August 3, 1915 (
1915-08-03
)

Died
  
September 6, 2003, Greenport, New York, United States

Spouse
  
Jed Harris (m. 1939–1941), Stanley Gould

Movies
  
Stagecoach, Tell No Tales, I Met My Love Again, Street of Chance, Forgotten Girls

Similar People
  
Berton Churchill, George Bancroft, Claire Trevor, Andy Devine, Thomas Mitchell

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Louise Platt (August 3, 1915 – September 6, 2003) was an American theater, film, and TV actress.

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Movie "Street of chance" - 1942 - starring Burgess Meredith, Claire Trevor and Louise Platt


Career

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Platt is best remembered for her role as the officer's pregnant wife in John Ford's Stagecoach (1939). After two years on Broadway, she came to Hollywood in 1938. She returned to the New York stage in 1942 after acting in a half-dozen movies. She worked with Rex Harrison in Anne of the Thousand Days on Broadway in 1948 and in the 1950s played a variety of roles on television, including two appearances on Alfred Hitchcock Presents and a recurring role as Ruth Holden on The Guiding Light.

Personal life

Platt was born in Stamford, Connecticut. She married twice, first to theatre director Jed Harris, who abused her. She was later married to Stanley Gould, until his death.



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Filmography

Actress
1963
Naked City (TV Series) as
Eileen Gerrick
- The Apple Falls Not Far from the Tree (1963) - Eileen Gerrick
1959
New York Confidential (TV Series) as
Alice
- House of Strangers (1959) - Alice
1957
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) as
Ethel Botibol / Marsha Hendricks
- Dip in the Pool (1958) - Ethel Botibol
- One for the Road (1957) - Marsha Hendricks
1957
The United States Steel Hour (TV Series) as
Alice Davis
- Windfall (1957) - Alice Davis
1956
Kraft Theatre (TV Series) as
Kate Lawrence / Murial / Esther
- Hit and Run (1956) - Kate Lawrence
- The Last Showdown (1956) - Murial
- The Sears Girl (1956) - Esther
1956
Goodyear Playhouse (TV Series) as
Mrs. Howard
- Missouri Legend (1956) - Mrs. Howard
1956
Star Tonight (TV Series)
- An Ambulance for Jill (1956)
1955
Playwrights '56 (TV Series) as
Eva
- The Waiting Place (1955) - Eva
1952
Guiding Light (TV Series) as
Ruth Jannings Holden #2 (1958-1959)
1942
Street of Chance as
Virginia Thompson
1940
Captain Caution as
Corunna
1940
Forgotten Girls as
Judy Wingate
1939
Tell No Tales as
Ellen Frazier
1939
Stagecoach as
Mrs. Lucy Mallory
1938
Spawn of the North as
Dian 'Di' Turlon
1938
I Met My Love Again as
Brenda Wayne
Soundtrack
1940
Captain Caution (performer: "Only One" (1940))
Self
1959
Look Up and Live (TV Series documentary)
- The Family (1959)
Archive Footage
2016
I Am Not Your Negro (Documentary) as
Mrs. Lucy Mallory (clip from Stagecoach (1939)) (uncredited)
2007
John Wayne: Behind the Scenes (Video documentary)
1984
Going Hollywood: The '30s (Documentary)

References

Louise Platt Wikipedia