Ina Claire: Ina Claire. Actress: Ninotchka. Effervescent, blond star of sophisticated Broadway comedy in the 1920s. Born Ina Fagan, of Irish descent, her father died in a road accident four months before she was born. Without a breadwinner in the family, she was forced to live in a boarding house with her mother. From earliest childhood, she displayed a precocious talent for impersonating other people, which eventually led to her abandonment of...
Known For: Ninotchka (Swana), The Greeks Had a Word for Them (Jean Lawrence), The Royal Family of Broadway (Julie Cavendish), The Puppet Crown (Princess Alexia)