Name Pauline Tennant Children Andrew Graham Movies The Queen of Spades | Died December 6, 2008 Role Actress | |
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Parents David Pax Tennant, Hermione Baddeley Similar People David Pax Tennant, Hermione Baddeley, Julian A Pitt‑Rivers, Domino Harvey, Laurence Harvey | ||
Pauline Laetitia Tennant, later Pauline Graham, Pauline Rumbold or Lady Rumbold (6 February 1927 – 6 December 2008) was an English actress, poet and socialite.
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Family
Born into an aristocratic family, she was the daughter of David Pax Tennant and Hermione Baddeley. She was married three times, to Julian Pitt-Rivers (1946–53), Euan Douglas Graham, grandson of the fifth Duke of Montrose (from 1954), and then Sir Anthony Rumbold (1974–83).
Stage and screen
Tennant played on the West End stage in Ben Travers' She Followed Me About (1943) and alongside Fay Compton in No Medals. She also appeared in two films: Great Day (1945, screen debut) and The Queen of Spades (1949).
In an obituary for The Independent, the writer Philip Hoare described Tennant as "a true bohemian aristocrat – a tension of qualities that were literally in her genes." During her younger years she was often seen at the bar of the prestigious Ritz, London.