Beatrix Thomson Explained

Beatrix Thomson
Birth Date:	13 March 1900
Birth Place:	Wandsworth, Surrey, United Kingdom
Death Date:	23 February 1986 (aged 85)
Death Place:	Farnham, Surrey, United Kingdom
Occupation:	Actress

Beatrix Thomson (1900–1986) was a British stage actress.^[1] She also made a handful of appearances in film and television. A graduate of RADA, she made her West End debut in John Galsworthy's Loyalties in 1922.^[2] She was married to the actor Claude Rains from 1924 to 1935.^[3]

Her film roles include Lucie Dreyfus in Dreyfus (1931) and the title role in Michael Powell's quota quickie Crown v. Stevens (1936).

She also wrote several works for the stage.

Selected stage credits

Loyalties by John Galsworthy (1922)
The Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1925)
Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov (1926)
The Berg by Ernest Raymond (1929)
The Way Out by H. C. McNeile (1930)

Selected filmography

As dramatist

Special Delivery, thriller, adapted from a short story
Set to Music, incorporating music without becoming a musical
Woman Alive, adaptation of Susan Ertz's short story
Sons of Adam, dealing with racial tension

All four were written by 1938,^[4] and at least one, Sons of Adam, was staged in London.^[5]

Bibliography

Borovsky, Victor. A Triptych from the Russian Theatre: An Artistic Biography of the Komissarzhevskys. C. Hurst & Co, 2001.
Skal, David J. & Rains, Jessica. Claude Rains: An Actor's Voice. University Press of Kentucky, 2008.
Wearing, J.P. The London Stage 1920-1929: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.

Notes and References

Borovsky p.354
Wearing p.153
Skal & Rains p.52
News: What London is Doing and Thinking . . 25860 . Victoria, Australia . 5 March 1938 . 10 August 2022 . 3 ("The Age" Literary Supplement) . National Library of Australia.
Web site: Who Was Who: Gregory Stroud (1926) . David Stone . 2001 . GS archives . 6 August 2022.