Genevieve Tobin

Tobin, Genevieve (1899–1995), actress. The native New Yorker began her career in 1912 and within a few seasons was being touted by many critics as a successor to Maude Adams. Although her career never lived up to its earliest promises, she won praise as the immigrant Patricia O'Day in Little Old New York (1920), chorine‐turned‐star Polly Brown in Polly Preferred (1923), Cordelia in King Lear (1923), the assertive Nancy Blake in The Youngest (1924), and the American tourist Looloo Carroll in Fifty Million Frenchmen (1929).

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