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Dorothy Isobel Cox was an acclaimed actress in British theater by the late 1920s, and made her American-film debut in 1933 with Richard Boleslawski's Rasputin And The Empress; she also starred in such notable American films of the period as Frank Lloyd's Cavalcade (for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress) and James Whale's One More River. She resuemd her theater career in England and made only occasional film appearances into the late 1950s, acing in such memorable films as Thorold Dickinson's Gaslight (aka Angel Street), Alexander Korda's Oscar Wilde adaptation An Ideal Husband, Robert Stevenson's Tom Brown's School Days, and Robert Rossen's Island In The Sun. In 1941 she starred in Carol Reed's Kipps; the two were married from 1943-47.