Pauline Laetitia Tennant, later Pauline Graham, Pauline Rumbold and Lady Rumbold (6 February 1927 – 6 December 2008)
was an English actress, poet and socialite.
Family
Born into an aristocratic family, she was the daughter of
David Pax Tennant
The Hon. David Pax Tennant (22 May 1902 – 8 April 1968) was a British aristocrat and socialite, and the founder of the Gargoyle Club in London's Soho.
Early life
Tennant was the third son of Edward Tennant, 1st Baron Glenconner, Edward Tenna ...
and
Hermione Baddeley
Hermione Youlanda Ruby Clinton-Baddeley (13 November 1906 – 19 August 1986) was an English actress of theatre, film and television. She typically played brash, vulgar characters, often referred to as "brassy" or "blowsy".Folkart, Burt, "Noted ...
. She was married three times, to
Julian Pitt-Rivers
Julian Alfred Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers (16 March 1919 – 12 August 2001) was a British social anthropologist, an ethnographer, and a professor at universities in three countries.
Family background
Pitt-Rivers was a great-grandson of the archaeologi ...
(1946–53); Euan Douglas Graham, grandson of the
fifth Duke of Montrose (from 1954-70); and then
Sir Anthony Rumbold (1974–83).
Stage and screen
Tennant played on the West End stage in
Ben Travers
Ben Travers (12 November 188618 December 1980) was an English writer. His output includes more than 20 plays, 30 screenplays, 5 novels, and 3 volumes of memoirs. He is best remembered for his long-running Aldwych farce, series of farces first ...
' ''She Followed Me About'' (1943) and alongside
Fay Compton
Virginia Lilian Emmeline Compton-Mackenzie, (; 18 September 1894 – 12 December 1978), known professionally as Fay Compton, was an English actress. She appeared in several films, and made many broadcasts, but was best known for her stage per ...
in ''
No Medals
''No Medals'' is a play by the British writer Esther McCracken first staged in 1944. Its West End run at the Vaudeville Theatre lasted for 740 performances between 4 October 1944 and 19 July 1946. It depicts the struggles of a middle-class Br ...
'' (1947). She also appeared in two films: ''
Great Day'' (1945, screen debut) and ''
The Queen of Spades'' (1949).
In an obituary for ''The Independent'', the writer
Philip Hoare
Philip Hoare (born Patrick Kevin Philip Moore, 1958) is an English writer, especially of history and biography. He instigated the Moby Dick Big Read project. He is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Southampton and Leverhulme a ...
described Tennant as "a true bohemian aristocrat – a tension of qualities that were literally in her genes."
During her younger years she was often seen at the bar of the prestigious
Ritz, London.
Filmography
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1929 births
2008 deaths
English women poets
20th-century English poets
20th-century English women writers
English socialites
English film actresses
English stage actresses
20th-century English actresses
1940s in London
Wives of baronets