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Katharine Cornell's most famous role was as English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning in the 1931 Broadway production of The Barretts of Wimpole Street.

Other appearances on Broadway included: W. Somerset Maugham's The Letter ( 1927 ), Sidney Howard's The Alien Corn ( 1933 ), Juliet in Romeo and Juliet ( 1934 ), Maxwell Anderson's The Wingless Victory ( 1936 ), S. N. Behrman's No Time for Comedy ( 1939 ), a Tony Award-winning Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra ( 1947 ), and a revival of Maugham's The Constant Wife ( 1951 ).