Louise Platt (August 3, 1915 – September 6, 2003) was an American

theater Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The perform ...

, film, and TV actress.

Early years

Platt was born in Stamford, Connecticut, and grew up in Annapolis, Maryland. Her father was a dental surgeon in the Navy.

Career

Platt's first professional acting experience came in stock theater in

Suffern, New York Suffern is a village that was incorporated in 1796 in the town of Ramapo in Rockland County, New York. Suffern is located 31 miles northwest of Manhattan. As of the 2010 census, Suffern's population was 10,723. Platt is best remembered for her role as the officer's pregnant wife in

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's '' Stagecoach'' (1939). After two years on Broadway, she came to Hollywood in 1938. She returned to the New York stage in 1942 after acting in a half-dozen movies. She worked with Rex Harrison in ''

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'' on Broadway in 1948 and in the 1950s played a variety of roles on television, including two appearances on '' Alfred Hitchcock Presents'' and a recurring role as Ruth Holden on ''

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''.

Personal life

Platt was first married to theater director

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, who abused her. On August 25, 1950, she married director Stanley Gould in North Guilford, Connecticut. They remained together until his death. Each marriage produced a daughter.

Death

On September 6, 2003, Platt died at a hospital in Greenport, New York, at age 88. The cause of her death was not disclosed.

Filmography

References

External links

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Portraits of Louise Platt from ''Stagecoach''
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