Ivah Wills Coburn

Ivah Myrtle Wills (August 19, 1878[1][2] – April 27, 1937) was an American actress and Broadway producer.

[5] Ivah Wills Coburn's Broadway performing and producing credits included The Yellow Jacket (1916), The Imaginary Invalid (1917), The Better 'Ole (1918-1919), Three Showers (1920), French Leave (1920),[6] The Bronx Express (1922), The Farmer's Wife (1924-1925), The Right Age to Marry (1926), The Yellow Jacket (1928-1929), Falstaff (1928-1929), The Plutocrat (1930),[7] and Troilus and Cressida (1932).

Coburn and her husband had a touring repertory company that presented Shakespeare, French and Greek dramas and comedies at college campuses throughout the United States.

Among the honorary pallbearers at her funeral were George M. Cohan, Theodore E. Steinway, Walter Hampden, Dixon Ryan Fox, Augustin Duncan, and Edgar Lee Masters.

[10] After her death, Charles Coburn left the stage and found success in films, winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1944 for The More the Merrier.

A costume designed for Ivah Wills Coburn by Paul Iribe , for her role in Paris Leave (1920).