Katharine Cornell
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Katharine Cornell was one of the most celebrated American stage actresses in the first half of the twentieth century. Recalling her youth, she wrote for Edwin Guillet’s Cobourg 1798-1948,
“As a child I spent all my vacations in Cobourg. They were wonderful summers…It was in Cobourg, I think, that I first acquired a leaning towards the theatre…Cobourg is the place of many happy memories.”