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Louisa Fleetwood Horton (September 20, 1920 – January 25, 2008) was an American film, television and stage actress, who used her given name, Louisa Horton, professionally. [1] She was the former wife of the late The Sting director, George Roy Hill, with whom she had four children. [2]
Louisa Horton. Actress: All My Sons. She was born in China and raised in Haiti and the Washington, D.C., area. She lived in Manhattan for nearly 50 years. She met George Roy Hill while both were actors in a Shakespeare repertory company. They married in 1951 and remained close even after they divorced in the 1970s.
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Louisa Fleetwood Horton (September 20, 1920 – January 25, 2008) was an American film, television and stage actress, who used her given name, Louisa Horton, professionally. [1] She was the former wife of the late The Sting director, George Roy Hill , with whom she had four children.
- The Mystery Begins
- The Newspapers Investigate
- Was It All Just A Hoax?
- Who Was Marie Empress, Really?
Early in the afternoon of Monday, October 27, 1919, the Orduñatied up at a Cunard Line pier in New York City. The liner had begun its transatlantic journey 11 days earlier in Liverpool, England, stopping in Halifax, Nova Scotia, before continuing on to New York. On board when the ship steamed up the Hudson River were an assortment of VIPs, ordinary...
Empress’s disappearance was covered by newspapers around the world. Reporters interviewed her fellow passengers and any members of the crew who were willing to talk. None proved chattier than an unnamed “thin, little, gray-haired stewardess,” whose account was picked up in many papers. The stewardess said she brought dinner to Empress’s stateroom o...
Soon the news coverage took a decidedly different turn. Remembering that she’d been involved in previous publicity stunts, one paper predicted that she would soon show up at a New York theater “with a seaweed halo around her head and an applauding public that loves to have a new one put over on it.” The New York Clipper, a theatrical monthly, repor...
Throughout her career, Empress did a masterful job of padding her pedigree and concealing her true identity. Numerous articles, both before and after her disappearance, claimed that she was related to the great Shakespearean actor Edmund Kean, that her father was a former lord mayor of London and that her mother was a famous French actress. As it t...
- Greg Daugherty
Jan 31, 2008 · NEW YORK (AP) — Louisa Horton Hill, a stage, film and television actress and former wife of "The Sting" director George Roy Hill, has died. She was 87. Horton, who used her own name...
actress. 83 years biography, photo, best movies and TV shows, news, birthday and age, Date of Death. «Everyday Heroes» (1990), «Communion» (1976), «Swashbuckler ...
Louisa Horton Hill (September 10, 1920 – January 25, 2008) was an American film, television and stage actress, who used her given name, Louisa Horton, professionally. She was the former wife of the late The Sting director, George Roy Hill.
