Cornelia Otis Skinner
Toronto Daily Star, April 25 1932
Cornelia Otis Skinner (1899-1979) was the child of two actors and started a career on the stage in 1921. In the late 1920s, she toured the United States performing short character sketches. Four collections of her "monologue-dramas" and eight collections of her essays were published between 1932 and 1958.
YouTube has a number of recordings of her recitals of poems; here's one from 1941. She appeared on What's My Line? in 1959.
Created August 27, 2025.