Josephine Hutchinson (October 12, 1903 - June 4, 1998) was an American
actress. She has been romantically linked to
Eva Le Gallienne.Queer Places:
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Josephine Hutchinson (October 12, 1903 - June 4, 1998) was an American
actress. She has been romantically linked to
Eva Le Gallienne.
Hutchinson was born in Seattle, Washington. Her mother, Leona Roberts, was an actress best known for her role as Mrs. Meade in Gone with the Wind. At the age of sixteen, she won a scholarship to Maurice Browne's School of Acting.
On August 12, 1924, Hutchinson married Robert W. Bell, a stage director, in Washington, D.C.[12] In 1926, she met the actress Eva Le Gallienne, and became a member of Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre company. By 1927, the two women were involved in an affair and lived together into Le Gallienne's apartment above the theater. Hutchinson and Bell, who separated in 1928, were divorced in 1930.[13] The press quickly dubbed her Le Gallienne's "shadow", a term which at the time meant lesbian.[14][11] Both actresses survived the scandal and carried on with their respective careers.
Hutchinson and Le Gallienne were intimately involved for a number of years. Although Hutchinson was married three times, Le Gallienne never married. Hutchinson married James F. Townsend in 1935; they later divorced. Her final marriage was to actor Staats Cotsworth in 1972; he died in 1979.[11][15]
She died, aged 94, on June 4, 1998 at the Florence Nightingale Nursing Home in Manhattan.[5] Her ashes were scattered near her niece’s home at Springfield, Oregon.[16]
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