Pauline Tennant
Pauline Tennant | |
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 Pauline Tennant | |
| Born | Pauline Laetitia Tennant 6 February 1927 London, England |
| Died | 6 December 2008 (aged 81) |
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| Years active | 1943–1949 |
| Title | Lady Rumbold |
| Spouses | Euan Douglas Graham
(m. 1954; div. 1970) |
| Children | Andrew Graham |
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Pauline Laetitia, Lady Rumbold (born Tennant, formerly Pitt-Rivers and Graham; 6 February 1927 – 6 December 2008)[1] was a British actress, poet and socialite.
Family[edit]
Born into an aristocratic family, she was the daughter of Hon. David Tennant and Hermione Baddeley. She was married three times, to Julian Pitt-Rivers (1946–1953); Euan Douglas Graham, grandson of the 5th Duke of Montrose (1954–1970); and Sir Anthony Rumbold, 10th Baronet (from 1974 until his death in 1983).[1]
Stage and screen[edit]
Tennant played on the West End stage in Ben Travers' She Followed Me About (1943) and alongside Fay Compton in No Medals (1947). She also appeared in two films: Great Day (1945, screen debut) and The Queen of Spades (1949).[2]
In an obituary for The Independent, the writer Philip Hoare described Tennant as "a true bohemian aristocrat—a tension of qualities that were literally in her genes".[3] During her younger years she was often seen at the bar of the prestigious Ritz, London.[4]
Filmography[edit]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1945 | Great Day | Vicky Calder | |
| 1949 | The Queen of Spades | Young Countess | (final film role) |
Bibliography[edit]
- Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh; Watkin, David (1980). The London Ritz: a social and architectural history. Aurum. ISBN 978-0-906053-01-0.
References[edit]
- ^ a b Goldman, Lawrence (2013). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2005–2008. Oxford: OUP Oxford. p. 1101. ISBN 978-0199-67154-0.
- ^ "Obituaries: Lady Rumbold". telegraph.co.uk. The Telegraph. 17 December 2008. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
- ^ "Pauline, Lady Rumbold: Actress and poet born into bohemian high society". The Independent. Archived from the original on 25 May 2022. Retrieved 22 June 2015.
- ^ Montgomery-Massingberd & Watkin 1980, pp. 115–16.
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