Inez Courtney: A Mosquito in the Movies
A spotlight on stage and screen star Inez Courtney (1897-1975) this morning. Courtney, a redheaded Irish-American colleen, started her working life as a shopgirl (an apprentice milliner, to be precise). At age sixteen she went on the vaudeville stage as a dancer, where her energetic antics inspired the nicknames "Mosquito" and "St. Vitus". Her first […]