Audrey Carten

Noel Streatfeild, attending the Academy in the same period, remember her as a brilliant and beautiful girl, the most gifted member of her class.

[9] Critics praised her "delicate, eerie, sensitive" portrayal; she "was hard and tender and desperate with a convincting mastery of moods".

"[13] Bankhead became a surrogate mother to Carten's brother, 11 years old Kenneth, who during the summer break from Eton College, went to live with them.

The plays were produced on Broadway too, and Audrey and her siblings moved ofter between England and the United States.

[citation needed] In 1930, Aubrey Carten appeared in Birds of Prey, a crime movie directed by Basil Dean.

[citation needed] In the late 1930s, with her brother, Kenneth, she frequented the same circle of Elvira Mullens Barney.