As per our current Database, Edith Atwater has been died on 14 March, 1986 at Los Angeles, California, USA.
When Edith Atwater die, Edith Atwater was 75 years old.
| Popular As | Edith Atwater |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Age | 75 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Taurus |
| Born | April 22, 1911 (Chicago, Illinois, USA) |
| Birthday | April 22 |
| Town/City | Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| Nationality | USA |
Edith Atwater’s zodiac sign is Taurus. According to astrologers, Taurus is practical and well-grounded, the sign harvests the fruits of labor. They feel the need to always be surrounded by love and beauty, turned to the material world, hedonism, and physical pleasures. People born with their Sun in Taurus are sensual and tactile, considering touch and taste the most important of all senses. Stable and conservative, this is one of the most reliable signs of the zodiac, ready to endure and stick to their choices until they reach the point of personal satisfaction.
Edith Atwater was born in the Year of the Pig. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Pig are extremely nice, good-mannered and tasteful. They’re perfectionists who enjoy finer things but are not perceived as snobs. They enjoy helping others and are good companions until someone close crosses them, then look out! They’re intelligent, always seeking more knowledge, and exclusive. Compatible with Rabbit or Goat.
A respected stage actress, brunette Edith Atwater was another of those performers who never quite managed to break into films. She was trained at the American Laboratory Theatre and began her acting career at the age of eighteen.
She was on Broadway from 1931, her carefully coiffed patrician looks and mature manner rather suited to playing well-bred socialites. Her first lead was in a forgotten comedy, "Springtime for Henry" (which has the singular distinction of having its title co-opted by Mel Brooks for The Producers (1967) as "Springtime for Hitler").
However, better parts were in store: leads in hit plays like "The Country Wife" (1936), "Susan and God" (1937), "State of the Union" (1945), and, her best role yet, as Maggie Cutler opposite Monty Woolley in "The Man Who Came to Dinner" (1939).
Bette Davis eventually got to star in the classic film version, whereas Edith had a just few inconsequential movie bits to show for in the 30's.She didn't make an impact on screen until her role as Henry Daniell's housekeeper Meg Cameron in Val Lewton's brilliant horror thriller The Body Snatcher (1945).
Nothing of substance followed until much later, when she popped up as an indomitable, over-protective socialite mother in William Castle's lurid psycho-thriller Strait-Jacket (1964). For the most part, however, Edith was typecast in maternal roles, or as nurses or secretaries which she always played believably.
More often than not, we'd see her on the small screen, often in recurring roles as in the "Barefoot in the Park" lookalike Love on a Rooftop (1966), Grace Morton in Peyton Place (1964), or as Aunt Gertrude in The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (1977).
Edith was married to actors Hugh Marlowe and Kent Smith who both predeceased her.
