Leueen MacGrath was an English actress and playwright and the second wife of George S. Kaufman, from 1949 until their divorce in 1957. Born in London, England, MacGrath began her acting career with a small role in the 1936 British film Whom the Gods Love, a biopic about Mozart and his wife Constanze. She followed this with Pygmalion and a series of B-movies, including All Hands, Meet Maxwell Archer, and The Saint's Vacation. MacGrath made her Broadway debut in 1948 in the play Edward, My Son in which the stars were Spencer Tracy and Deborah Kerr; MacGrath not only kept up with these two stars but, in this writer's opinion, she outshone Deborah Kerr in her small role during which she played the part of Spencer's extra-marital love interest as Spencer's clerk. And in a part that is usually played by a character actor in order to further develop Spencer's character, she literally stole this section of the movie from Tracy and Kerr. In 1951 she collaborated with Kaufman and Heywood Hale Broun on the writing of The Small Hours, which closed after 20 performances. 

July 3rd, 1914 in London  /  Died:   Mar 27th, 1992