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Ina Claire (October 15, 1893February 21, 1985) was an American stage and film actress. ==Life and career== Born Ina Fagan in 1893〔Born in 1893, not 1892 as per the (Social Security Death Index under the name INA CLAIRE ) and her (gravestone )〕 in Washington, D.C., Claire began her career appearing in vaudeville. In 1909, she appeared in a vaudeville act entitled "Dainty Mimic," which include an imitation of actor Harry Lauder. A booking agent described this act as "one of the best single Acts" he had seen that season and remarked that "She possesses a great deal of magnatism () and is a big hit."〔Ohio State University, Theater Research Institute, Scrapbook #172, n.p.〕 She performed on Broadway in the musicals ''Jumping Jupiter'' and ''The Quaker Girl'' (both 1911) and ''Lady Luxury'', and starred on Broadway in plays by some of the leading comic dramatists of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, including the roles of Jerry Lamarr in Avery Hopwood's ''The Gold Diggers'' (1919), Mrs. Cheyney in Frederick Lonsdale's ''The Last of Mrs. Cheyney'' (1925), Lady George Grayston in W. Somerset Maugham's ''Our Betters'' (1928), and Enid Fuller in George Kelly's ''Fatal Weakness''. Between 1929 and 1931, she was married to screen actor John Gilbert, her second husband. Claire later became identified with the high comedies of S. N. Behrman, and created the female leads in three of his plays: ''Biography'' (1934), ''End of Summer'' (1936), and ''The Talley Method'' (1941). Behrman wrote of Claire's performance in one of Behrman's comedies: "Her readings were translucent, her stage presence encompassing. The flick of an intonation deflated pomposity. She never missed a nuance."〔S. N. Behrman, ''People in a Diary'' (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1972), 196.〕 Critic J. Brooks Atkinson praised Claire for her "refulgent comic intelligence".〔J. Brooks Atkinson, "Americans Stopping in London", ''The New York Times'', February 21, 1928, p. 18〕 Her last stage appearance was as Lady Elizabeth Mulhammer in T. S. Eliot's ''The Confidential Clerk'' (1954). She made her film debut in Cecil B. DeMille's ''The Wild Goose Chase'' (1915),〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Progressive Silent Film List: The Wild Goose Chase )〕 but she is best remembered for her role as the Grand Duchess in the romantic comedy ''Ninotchka'' (1939) directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Greta Garbo. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ina Claire」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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