Frances Carson

Frances Carson (April 1, 1895 – October 20, 1973) was an American actress on stage and in films, including three Alfred Hitchcock films. Early life Carson was from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and started acting and modeling professionally in her teens. Career Carson was an actress known for stage work in New York and London, and for film roles. She performed on Broadway in shows including Poor Little Thing (1914) with her husband Eric Blind, The White Feather (1915), The Riddle: Woman (1918-1919), The Hottentot (1920), The Bad Man (1920), The Scarlet Man (1921), The Blue Lagoon (1921), Two Married Men (1925), Potiphar's Wife (1928), The First Law (1929), Slightly Scandalous (1944), and The Visitor (1944). In London, Carson appeared in Glamour (1922), The Love Habit (1923), R.U.R. (1923, with Basil Rathbone) The Last Warning (1923), Havoc (1924), The Happy Hangman (1925), The Silver Fox (1925), Virginia's Husband (1926), Aloma: A Tale of the South Seas (1926–1927), These Internationals (1928), and The Barker (1928). When she played Salome in Leonid Andreyev's Katerina in 1926, with John Gielgud, her revealing costume prompted a censor to insist that she wear a shawl on stage. She also co-wrote a play, The Unknown Woman; it was produced in London in 1927.