Cora Brown-Potter
Cora Brown-Potter (1857–1936)[1] was an American born professional actress.
Also known as Cora Urquhart Brown-Potter billed as Mrs. Brown-Potter or Mrs Potter.
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Biography
Born Cora Urquhart - 1859-1936) she made her name as amateur in America and was trained by David Belasco. She started a successful partnership with Kyrle Bellew at the Fifth Avenue Theatre in the New York production of Civil War in 1887, after which she and Bellew toured the world for the next ten years as the Potter-Bellew Company. In the early 1890s they undertook a tour to Australia and the Far East.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
They were brought out to South Africa in early 1892 by Luscombe Searelle and where they played scenes from Romeo and Juliet, Camille and Hamlet. They returned to England toward the end of February after the Exhibition Theatre in Cape Town burnt down, with all their costumes, just before a final performance of As You Like It.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyrle_Bellew
Bosman 1928, Bosman, 1981,
Fletcher, 1994,
Hartnoll, 1967.
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