The Resume

(October 15, 1893-February 21, 1985)
Born in Washington, District of Columbia
Birth name was Ina Fagan
Performed on Broadway in 'The Quaker Girl' (1911-12), 'The Gold Diggers' (1919-21), 'Bluebeard's Eighth Wife' (1921-22), 'The Awful Truth' (1922-23), 'The Last of Mrs. Cheyney' (1925-26), 'Our Betters' (1928), 'Biography' (1932-34), 'End of Summer' (1936), 'The Talley Method' (1941), 'The Fatal Weakness' (1946-47) and 'The Confidential Clerk' (1954)
Appeared in the films 'The Royal Family of Broadway (1930),' 'Rebound (1931),' 'The Greeks Had a Word for Them (1932),' 'Ninotchka (1939),' 'I Take This Woman (1940),' and 'Claudia (1943)'

Why she might be annoying:

She was married to the self-destructive alcoholic John Gilbert for two years.
She later called her marriage to Gilbert 'my biggest mistake.'
She was listed as appearing in the Joan Crawford film 'Two Faced Woman' when she didn't.
She's best known for originating roles on Broadway that would go on to make stars out of better known movie actresses.
For instance, she reprised her part in The Awful Truth for a 1929 talkie and it bombed (Irene Dunne remade it eight years later and it was a hit).
Other stage roles of hers were later brought to the screen by Gloria Swanson, Claudette Colbert, Joan Crawford and Norma Shearer.

Why she might not be annoying:

F. Scott Fitzgerald once had a huge crush on her.
She was a gifted stage comedienne.
For 25 years, she opened a new play every other year.
A pre-code publicity still of her lying seductively in a sheer nightgown provoked outrage from civic and religious leaders.
Her spoof of Ethel Barrymore in Royal Family of Broadway was so effective that the real Ethel threatened legal action against Paramount.
She was modest about her career, once saying: 'I'm in no good [motion] pictures.'
Although her filmography was sparse, she does have a role in at least one classic movie: as Garbo's rival the Countess in Ernst Lubitsch's Ninotchka.
She was an inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.
She retired from the stage for five years in the early 1940s, living with her husband in San Francisco.

Credit: BoyWiththeGreenHair

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• Algonquin Round Table Members
• BoyWiththeGreenHair’s Profiles [Series 22]
• Cecil B. Demille Films
• Celebrities Born on the Same Date [October] (Ranked: 10151893)
• Chatty Cathies
• Child Stars [1900s and 1910s]
• Comediennes
• Ernst Lubitsch Films
• Film Pioneers [Silent Era]
• I am from San Francisco
• I Am Vaudeville [A-L]
• I Died in 1985 (Ranked: 91)
• I Have a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame[C-E]
• I Portrayed Joan of Arc
• I Portrayed Myself
• I Was a Child Star
• I was a Ziegfeld Girl
• Look at Me, I'm on the Cover of Time
• Look at Me, My Picture Is Art
• Look at My Magazine Cover
• Musical Theater Star
• My Dad Died Before I was Born
• Profiles 54751-55000 (Ranked: 54970)
• Stage Door Canteen [1943]

Year In Review:

For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2023, Out of 17 Votes: 5.88% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 120 Votes: 57.50% Annoying