Constance Carpenter

Constance Emmeline Carpenter (19 April 1904 – 26 December 1992) was an English-born American film and musical theatre actress.

[1] She remained in America for five years, appearing in The Charlot Revue of 1926 in 1925–26, after which she played Mae in George and Ira Gershwin's Oh, Kay!

in 1926 and Alice Carter in the Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart and Herbert Fields musical A Connecticut Yankee in which she played for a year, from November 1927.

[5] During World War II, Carpenter entertained troops throughout Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

[citation needed] Carpenter film credits were limited to Just for a Song (1929), Two Worlds (1930), and Brown Sugar (1931).

Constance Carpenter and William Gaxton , principals of the original Broadway production of Rodgers and Hart 's A Connecticut Yankee , on stage at the Vanderbilt Theatre during a mid-run rehearsal of the hit musical (1928)