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Catherine Carr (other)
Catherine Carr may refer to: *Catherine Carr (screenwriter) (1880–1941), silent-film era screenwriter * Cathy Carr (swimmer) (born 1954), American swimmer *Cathy Carr (singer) (1936–1988), singer See also *Rosalind Wade Rosalind Wade OBE ( pen name, Catharine Carr; 1909-1989) was a British novelist and short story writer. She was also the editor of ''The Contemporary Review'' for almost twenty years. Biography Born on 11 September 1909, Rosalind Herschel Wade ... (1909–1989), British novelist and short story writer, who also wrote under the name Catharine Carr * Katy Carr (other) {{human name disambiguation, Carr, Catherine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Carr (screenwriter)
Catherine Carr (January 1, 1880 – January 18, 1941) was a silent film era screenwriter with at least 28 films to her credit. Biography Catherine, daughter of Absalom and Ida Woodridge, was born in Austin, Texas. She was educated in Washington, D.C., where she met her husband, John Gillis Carr, and began her career as a writer of short stories. Her husband died soon after she gave birth to their two sons. She began her career writing scenarios before rising to the rank of head of the scenario department at Kinetophone. She wrote a number of films for Vitagraph over the course of her years in the industry. Filmography * '' The Temple of Venus'' (1923) * ''Nobody's Kid'' (1921) * ''The Forgotten Woman'' (1921) * ''The Corsican Brothers'' (1920) * ''Toton'' (1919) * '' The Game's Up'' (1919) * '' Prudence on Broadway'' (1919) * '' The Usurper'' ( UK title ''Her Buckskin Knight'') (1919) * ''Shifting Sands'' (1918) * ''The Atom'' (1918) * ''The Ghost Flower'' (1918) * ''High ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cathy Carr (swimmer)
Catherine L. Carr (born May 27, 1954), also known by her married name Cathy West, is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder in two events. Carr was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and graduated from Highland High School in Albuquerque.Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Athletes Cathy Carr Retrieved October 20, 2012. She trained for the Olympics with the Coronado Swim Club under 1960 Olympic gold medalist Mike Troy. Carr represented the United States at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany. Individually, she won a gold medal in the women's 100-meter breaststroke, setting a new world of 1:13.58 in the final, and besting Soviet Galina Prozumenshchikova by 1.41 seconds.Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Swimming at the 1972 München Summer Games Women's 100 metres Breaststroke Final Retrieved March 15, 2015. She won a gold medal swimming the breaststroke leg for the first-place U.S. team in the women's 4×100-meter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cathy Carr (singer)
Angelina Helen Catherine Cordovano (June 28, 1936 – November 22, 1988), known professionally as Cathy Carr, was an American pop singer. Career She was born in The Bronx. As a child, she appeared on '' The Children's Hour,'' a television show locally aired in New York; sponsored by Horn & Hardart, a cafeteria chain which had locations in New York and Philadelphia. She later became a singer and dancer with the USO and joined big band orchestras such as those of Sammy Kaye and Johnny Dee. In 1953 she signed with Coral Records, but had no hits for them, later switching to Fraternity Records, a small company based in Cincinnati, Ohio, in early 1955. It was for Fraternity that she had her only major hit, "Ivory Tower", which was her third record for Fraternity. She never had another big hit, though in 1959 she had two small successes for Roulette Records. She recorded one single for Smash Records in 1961, which was a more mature song, but went back to recording teenage pop o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosalind Wade
Rosalind Wade OBE ( pen name, Catharine Carr; 1909-1989) was a British novelist and short story writer. She was also the editor of ''The Contemporary Review'' for almost twenty years. Biography Born on 11 September 1909, Rosalind Herschel Wade was the daughter of an army officer. She was educated in London, finishing at Bedford College. Wade married banker William Kean Seymour (who was also a writer); they had two sons, one of whom is the thriller writer Gerald Seymour. Beginning at the age of 22, Wade published some two dozen novels and many short stories. Wade used her full birth name of Rosalind Herschel Wade for some of her early works but Rosalind Wade for the bulk of her writing and "Catharine Carr" for a couple of books. Her novels are noted for their sometimes bleak examination of characters' emotional lives and troubles such as alcoholism. ''Morning Break'' (1956), for example, centres on a pair of schoolteachers in an English industrial town and the difficulties the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |