Mildred Joanne Smith

Mildred Joanne Smith

Birth : 1923-05-16, Struthers, Ohio, USA

Death : 2015-06-19

History

Born in Struthers, Ohio, Ms. Hepburn performed as Mildred Joanne Smith in fourteen Broadway productions. The New York Post's Richard Watts, Jr., referred to her as "one of the most beautiful and talented actresses on the American stage." In 1950, Hepburn would star opposite Sidney Poitier, Richard Wydmark and Linda Darnell in director Joseph L. Mankiewicz's No Way Out.

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Mildred Joanne Smith

Movies

No Way Out
Cora Brooks
Robbers Ray Biddle and his brother are shot and taken to the local hospital. There, the two are treated by Dr. Brooks, the hospital's only black doctor. The brothers assault Brooks with racist slurs. And, when his brother ends up dying on the operating table, Ray accuses the doctor of murdering him. Blind with rage, Ray works to turn the white community of the city against Brooks, who finds an unlikely ally in the dead man's widow, Edie.