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  1. Louisa Lane Drew (January 10, 1820 – August 31, 1897) was an English-born American actress and theatre owner and an ancestor of the Barrymore acting family. [1] . Professionally, she was often known as Mrs. John Drew . Life and career. Mrs. John Drew as Mrs. Malaprop in an all-star Broadway revival of The Rivals (1895)

  2. Louisa Lane Drew (born Jan. 10, 1820, London, Eng.—died Aug. 31, 1897, Larchmont, N.Y., U.S.) was a noted American actress and manager of Mrs. John Drew’s Arch Street Theatre company in Philadelphia, which was one of the finest in American theatre history.

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  3. Drew family. The family of Georgiana Emma Drew, mother of Lionel, Ethel, and John, also includes a large number of actors. John Drew, actor, married actress Louisa Lane Drew. Georgiana Emma Drew, ∞ wife of Maurice Barrymore and mother of Lionel, Ethel, and John.

  4. Sep 16, 2019 · The Drew-Barrymore-St. Stephen’s story seems to close with the death of the child star-turned-matriarch, Louisa Drew at 78 in New York. She too returned for a funeral at St. Stephen’s on September 5, 1897, before burial at Glenwood.

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  5. British actress and theater manager. Name variations: Mrs. John Drew. Born Louisa Lane on January 10, 1820, at Lambeth Parish, London, England; died in Larchmont, New York, on August 31, 1897; daughter of Eliza Trentner (an actress) and William Haycraft Lane (an actor and stage manager); married Henry Blaine Hunt, in 1836 (divorced 1846 ...

  6. Drew family, American theatre family. Louisa Lane (later Louisa Lane Drew; 1820–97) began her stage career at age eight in Philadelphia, where her widowed mother had brought her from England. Her many successful parts included Lady Teazle, Mrs. Malaprop, and such “breeches” roles as Shakespeare’s.

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  8. Drew’s influence on this transformation of the theatre’s working life was recognized by her peers. In deference to her formidable skills, people began referring to “Mrs. John Drew, Lessee” as “the Duchess.” When, on the opening night of the 1861 Philadelphia theatre season), Louisa Lane Drew took to the stage, as

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