Cecil Kellaway

**OrCecil Lauriston Kellaway** (22 ga watan Agustan 1890 - 28 ga watan Fabrairun 1973)  ya kasance Mai wasan kwaikwayo na Afirka ta Kudu. An zabi shi don Kyautar Kwalejin don Mafi Kyawun Mai Taimako sau biyu, don The Luck of the Irish (1948) da Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967). 

## Rayuwa ta farko
An haifi Cecil Kellaway a ranar 22 ga watan Agusta 1890 a Cape Town, Afirka ta Kudu .[n 1] Shi ɗan iyayen Ingilishi ne, Rebecca Annie (née Brebner) da Edwin John Kellaway, masanin gine-gine da injiniya. Edwin ya yi hijira zuwa Cape Town don yin aiki a Gidan Majalisar a can. Ya kasance aboki mai kyau na mai hakar ma'adinai kuma mai gina ƙasa Cecil Rhodes, wanda ya zama mai suna Cecil kuma ubansa. Cecil yana da 'yan'uwa biyu, Alec Kellaway (1894-1973), wanda shi ma ɗan wasan kwaikwayo ne, da Jan Kowsky, mai rawa.

Cecil tana da sha'awar yin wasan kwaikwayo tun tana ƙarama. Ya yi karatu a Kwalejin Normal, Cape Town, kuma a Ingila a Bradford Grammar School . Ya yi karatun injiniya kuma ya sami aiki a kamfanin injiniyan lantarki a Cape Town bayan ya koma Afirka ta Kudu. Koyaya yaudarar yin wasan kwaikwayo ta yi ƙarfi sosai kuma ya zama ɗan wasan kwaikwayo na cikakken lokaci, yana yin sa na farko a *Potash da Perlmutter* .   Wasanni na farko sun haɗa da *Yarima na Pilsen.* .

Ya yi aiki a takaice a cikin sojoji a shekara ta 1914 amma an soke shi.

A ranar 15 ga Nuwamba 1919 ya auri Doreen Elizabeth Joubert mai shekaru 17 a Johannesburg, tare da wanda daga baya zai haifi 'ya'ya maza biyu.

Ya yi tafiya na shekaru uku ta hanyar China, Japan, Siam, Borneo, Malaya, Arewa da Afirka ta Kudu, da Turai, a cikin wasan kwaikwayo kamar Monsieur Beaucaire .

## Ostiraliya

### Gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Australiya
Kellaway ya isa Ostiraliya a cikin 1921 a ƙarƙashin kwangila ga JC Williamson Ltd. Ya sami gagarumin nasara a matsayin mahaifin 'ya'ya mata huɗu masu ban dariya a cikin A Night Out wanda ya buga a cikin mafi yawan 1922; ya fara haɗin shekaru goma sha shida tare da Williamsons a kan matakin Australiya, galibi a cikin wasan kwaikwayo na kiɗa.  [ana buƙatar ƙa'ida]. Kellaway sau da yawa zai koma rawar a cikin shekaru masu zuwa.

Ga Williamsons ya kasance a cikin *Maryamu* (1922-23) sannan ya koma A Night Out kafin ya ci gaba zuwa The Cabaret Girl (1923-24), Kissing Time (1924), Whirled into Happiness (1924), *Katja* (1925), The Belle of New York (1925), Primrose (1925), A Night Out revival (1926), *Frasquita* (1927), Princess Charming (1928),  Hold Everything (1929), *Florodora* (1931), A Warm Corner (1931), Blue Night Out Again, Sons o Guns (1932), The Waltzes (1933), The Walt Hand (1932),

### Fim din Australiya
A farkon shekarun 1930 Kellaway na ɗaya daga cikin manyan taurari a gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Australiya. Ya fara fim dinsa na farko a matsayin jagorancin The *Hayseeds* (1933), wani shahararren wasan kwaikwayo na gida, wanda Beaumont Smith ya jagoranta. Koyaya babban abin da ya mayar da hankali har yanzu shine mataki: The *Dubarry* (1934), Music in the Air (1934), *Roberta* (1935), High Jinks (1935), Ball at the Savoy (1935), A Southern Maid (1936) da *White Horse Inn* (1936).

Ya koma fina-finai tare da samar da fina-fallace na Australiya It Isn't Done (1937), wanda kuma ya samar da labarin asali. Ken G. Hall ne ya ba da umarni ya kasance sanannen nasara, kuma ya haifar da gwajin Kellaway kuma RKO Pictures ta sanya shi a ƙarƙashin kwangila.

Ya bayyana a cikin A Southern Maid a kan mataki a 1937.

## Hollywood

### RKO
RKO da farko ya sanya Kellaway cikin ƙananan matsayi: *Kowa Yana Yi* hakan (1938), *Hadari Biyu* (1938), Night Spot (1938), Maid's Night Out (1938), *Wannan Kasuwancin Aure* (1938), da Dokar Duniya (1938). An fara ba Kellaway rawar da ta taka, ta uku don Blond Cheat (1938), tare da Joan Fontaine .  Koyaya sassansa sun kasance ƙananan: Smashing the Rackets (1938), Tarnished Angel (1938), Annabel Takes a Tour (1938), da *Gunga Din* (1939). 

### Komawa Ostiraliya
Kellaway ya koma Ostiraliya don fim na biyu na Cinesound, Mr. Chedworth Steps Out (1939), wanda ya nuna matashi Peter Finch. An harbe shi a watan Oktoba-Nuwamba na shekara ta 1938. 

### Komawa Hollywood
Komawa a Hollywood girman da ingancin matsayinsa ya ci gaba da ingantawa, tare da *Wuthering Heights* (1939), ga William Wyler, a matsayin mahaifin Cathy.

Ya kasance a cikin The Sun Never Sets (1939), Man About Town (1939) a Paramount,  da kuma The Under-Pup (1939).

Ya ƙi The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939) don yin Intermezzo (1939) ga David O. Selznick . Daga baya ya yi We Are Not Alone (1939). 

Ya kasance a cikin Mexican Spitfire (1940) a RKO, The Invisible Man Returns (1940) da The House of the Seven Gables (1940) a Universal, Adventure in Diamonds (1940), Phantom Raiders (1940), Brother Orchid (1940), *Pop Always Pays* (1940), The Mummy's Hand (1940), Diamond Frontier (1940), da *Mexican Spitfire Out West* (1940) a rKO. Ya ƙi *Balalaika* don yin *Wasikar* (1940) ga Wyler .

Kellaway ta kasance a *Kudancin Suez* (1940) a Warners, da Lady tare da Red Hair (1940). Ya sami biyan kuɗi a cikin *Wasikar*, amma an ga shi ne kawai a takaice a cikin wani bangare na biki, an yanke rawar da ya taka.

### Babban Girma
Kellaway ya yi West Point Widow (1941) a Paramount kuma ya sanya hannu kan kwangila tare da su. Ya yi A Very Young Lady (1941) a Fox, Burma Convoy (1941), New York Town (1941), Birth of the Blues (1941), da kuma *Naɗa don Ƙauna* (1941) a Universal.

A Paramount, ya kasance a cikin The Night of January 16th (1941), Bahama Passage (1941), The Lady Has Plans (1941), da Take a Letter, Darling (1941). Fox ya aro shi don Small Town Deb (1941), sannan ya koma Paramount don Are Husbands Necessary?  (1942), da kuma *Dare a New Orleans* (1942).

### Matsayi na jagora da tallafi
Kellaway yana da rawar gani a cikin I Married a Witch (1942) a matsayin mahaifin Veronica Lake. Ya biyo baya tare da My Heart Belongs to Daddy (1942). 

Ya kasance a cikin *Star Spangled Rhythm* (1943) da Forever and a Day (1943), kuma ya kasance a cikin The Crystal Ball (1943), da It Ain't Hay (1943).

Paramount ta ba shi rawar gani a cikin The Good Fellows (1943). Ya koma sassan tallafi na Frenchman's Creek (1944). Zai yi Out of This World a Broadway lokacin da aka ba shi rawar Edward VII a Mrs. Parkington (1944) a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer .

Komawa a Paramount, ya kasance a cikin And Now Tomorrow (1944), Practically Yours (1944), da Love Letters (1945), wanda kuma ya fito da Kellaway ta Australiya mai suna Ann Richards.

A cikin *Kitty* (1945), ya kasance a matsayin mai zane Thomas Gainsborough .  MGM ta aro shi don ya taka rawar mijin Lana Turner a cikin The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946), rawar da ya taka a Easy to Wed (1946) da kuma mugu a cikin The Cockeyed Miracle (1946).

A farkon 1946, yana samun $ 1,500 a mako amma ya ce yana la'akari da komawa Ostiraliya don gudanar da ɗakin fim saboda yana fama da taka kananan rawa.

Komawa a Paramount ya kasance a cikin Monsieur Beaucaire (1946), Variety Girl (1947), da Unconquered (1947).

Kellaway ya aro da Warners don Always Together (1947)  sannan ya tafi 20th Century Fox don The Luck of the Irish (1948), wanda ya ba shi gabatarwa ta Oscar.

Kellaway ya tafi RKO don *Joan na Arc* (1948). 

Kellaway ya kasance a cikin The Decision of Christopher Blake (1948), Portrait of Jennie (1948), Down to the Sea in Ships (1949), The Reformer and the Redhead (1950), baya a MGM.

A cikin 1950, an sanar da cewa James Hilton yana rubuta rubutun a matsayin abin hawa ga Kellaway, Roof of the World, bisa ga lokacin ɗan wasan kwaikwayo a Indiya. Ba a yi shi ba.

Ya kasance a cikin *Harvey* (1950), *Kim* (1950), Katie Did It (1951), Francis Goes to the Races (1951), Half Angel (1951), da The Highwayman (1951).

Ya koma Paramount don Thunder in the East (1952) kuma ya kasance a cikin Just Across the Street (1952), My Wife's Best Friend (1952), Young Bess (1953), The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953), Cruisin 'Down the River (1953), da Paris Model (1953)

A shekara ta 1954, ya zama Dan ƙasar Amirka (ƙasarsa ta kasance Afirka ta Kudu). 

A MGM ya kasance a cikin The Prodigal (1955) da Interrupted Melody (1955), yana wasa da Australiya a ƙarshen (mahaifin Marjorie Lawrence). Ya yi biyu tare da Jeff Chandler, Female on the Beach (1955) da The Toy Tiger (1956) kuma an ba shi lambar yabo ta biyu (ga Ethel Barrymore) a cikin Johnny Trouble (1957).

Ya yi aiki a kai a kai a talabijin a cikin shirye-shirye kamar Lux Video Theatre, The Ford Television Theatre, Schlitz Playhouse, Cavalcade of America, Schlitz playhouse, Playhouse 90, *Studio One a Hollywood*, Matinee Theatre, da Crossroads.

Kellaway ya kasance a cikin The Proud Rebel (1958), The Shaggy Dog (1959), da The Private Lives of Adam and Eve (1960).

Ya bayyana a Broadway a *Greenwillow* (1960) wanda ke da ɗan gajeren lokaci.

A gidan talabijin na Amurka, ya yi baƙo a 1959 a kan *Perry Mason* a matsayin likitan Darrell Metcalf a cikin "The Case of the Glittering Goldfish", kuma ya sami kyautar kuɗi a wannan labarin daidai da Raymond Burr.
 

  

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