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Louisa Lane Drew (January 10, 1820 – August 31, 1897) was an English-born American actress and theatre owner and an ancestor of the Barrymore acting family. [1] . Professionally, she was often known as Mrs. John Drew . Life and career. Mrs. John Drew as Mrs. Malaprop in an all-star Broadway revival of The Rivals (1895)
Louisa Lane Drew (born Jan. 10, 1820, London, Eng.—died Aug. 31, 1897, Larchmont, N.Y., U.S.) was a noted American actress and manager of Mrs. John Drew’s Arch Street Theatre company in Philadelphia, which was one of the finest in American theatre history.
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British actress and theater manager. Name variations: Mrs. John Drew. Born Louisa Lane on January 10, 1820, at Lambeth Parish, London, England; died in Larchmont, New York, on August 31, 1897; daughter of Eliza Trentner (an actress) and William Haycraft Lane (an actor and stage manager); married Henry Blaine Hunt, in 1836 (divorced 1846 ...
Afterwards Louisa went to the Chestnut Street Theater in Philadelphia to act with her husband in "She Would and She Would Not." In 1853 John Drew became the lessee of the Arch Street Theater in Philadelphia. In 1861 Louisa (Lane) Drew was approached by the owner to assume the management, which she did.
Drew family, American theatre family. Louisa Lane (later Louisa Lane Drew; 1820–97) began her stage career at age eight in Philadelphia, where her widowed mother had brought her from England. Her many successful parts included Lady Teazle, Mrs. Malaprop, and such “breeches” roles as Shakespeare’s.
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John. Louisa Lane Drew was a British-American actress, theatrical manager, part proprietor of the Arch Street Theatre in Philadelphia and the wife of Sr. Drew John. She was a clever mimic and “quick study, ” and became famous as an “infant phenomenon” over the country.
Drew’s influence on this transformation of the theatre’s working life was recognized by her peers. In deference to her formidable skills, people began referring to “Mrs. John Drew, Lessee” as “the Duchess.” When, on the opening night of the 1861 Philadelphia theatre season), Louisa Lane Drew took to the stage, as
