学过声乐，并在小歌剧中任歌唱演员，二十岁开始成为百老汇的优秀演员和无声片时代的明星。她在银幕上扮演一些罗曼蒂克的角色，是第一次世界大战期间片酬最高的明星之一。三十年代后主要从事电影演出，扮演性格角色。曾以《芝加哥大火记》（1937）获第十届奥斯卡最佳配角金像奖。1939年因癌症去世。
Alan Mowbray, the American film actor who was one of the founding members of the Screen Actors Guild, was born Ernest Allen on August 18, 1896, in London, England, to a non-theatrical family. He served in the British army during World War I and received the Military Medal and the French Croix De Guerre for bravery in action. He began as a stage actor in England, and in some accounts he gave of his life, claimed he was a provincial actor in England before his naval service. In other versions, he claimed he turned to acting after The Great War, as World War I was then known, as he was broke and had no other skills.
1885年5月2日生于美国宾夕法尼亚州，原百老汇女演员，后成为专栏作家（主要是好莱坞娱乐圈八卦新闻），金球奖得主。 也有“帽子女王”的别号。1913年5月8日与DeWolf Hopper Sr.结婚，育有一个孩子，1922年离婚。与琼·克劳馥关系不错。
生于马萨诸塞州斯旺普史特。青年时代学工程，但却选了表演作为职业。最初是在杂耍剧团和固定剧团当演 员。1923年，他到好莱坞，由于刻苦努力、善于扮演各种角色，终于成为好莱坞一位优秀而有成就的性格演员，他演出的影片达一百部以上。他曾三获奥斯卡最佳男配角金...
