HOME WHAT'S NEW BIOGRAPHY PHOTO GALLERIES SCREEN CREDITS STAGE CREDITS ON THE RECORD MEMORABILIA SIX YEAR GIG ASHMONT A WORTHWHILE VENTURE LIZ'S DAD LIZ'S BROTHER BEWITCHED STORE WANTED ITEMS LINKS GUESTBOOK MAILING LIST CONTACT THE WEBMASTER SITE MAP			LUCILE WATSON (Mrs. Colby)
			Although she has become the prototype of the upper-class American mother or grandmother, a host of Lucile Watson's fans and friends would like to remind a new theatre-going generation that she has not always played the imperious matriarch. Records prove that as a young girl she was feted for the ease, grace and charm with which she displayed her talent in ingenue roles. A Canadian by birth, Miss Watson now ranks as one of the most brilliant American actresses. Her debut appearance on the New York stage was at the now departed Empire Theatre in 1902 in a drama called "The Wisdom of the Wise." The ensuing fifty years have brought her international fame in plays and pictures, and recent seasons she has even become a radio and TV personality on programs aptly called "Lucile Watson Speaks Her Mind." After seeing her in his play "The Girl With The Green Eyes," the prolific playwright Clyde Fitch wrote many roles for her, and she scored one of her notable successes in his posthumously produced "The City" in 1909. Space is never adequate to list all the praise that has been bestowed on Miss Watson in her varied characterizations. It will have to suffice to list a few of her plays of the last two decades, as for instance: "No More Ladies," "Post Road," "Yes, My Darling Daughter," "Watch On The Rhine." Her most recent roles were in "Ring Round The Moon" and last season's revival of "The Bat." She re-enacted her "Watch On The Rhine" role for Hollywood where she has graced such pictures as "Till We Meet Again," "The Thin Man Goes Home," "The Razor's Edge," "Let's Dance," etc.