May Whitty: May Whitty. Actress: The Lady Vanishes. Born Mary Whitty on June 19, 1865, to a Liverpool newspaper editor and his wife, she became known as May Whitty to the world. She first stepped onto the London stage in 1882 at which she worked as an understudy at the St. James Theatre and then began playing leading roles when she joined a traveling stock company. After nearly 25 years as one...
Known For: The Lady Vanishes (Miss Froy(as Dame May Whitty)), Night Must Fall (Mrs. Bramson(as Dame May Whitty)), Gaslight (Miss Thwaites(as Dame May Whitty)), Suspicion (Mrs. McLaidlaw(as Dame May Whitty))