Kate Cutler

Kate Ellen Louisa Cutler (14 August 1864 – 14 May 1955) was the moment, English singer and actress, known in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as an ingénue in the moment, musical comedies, and later as a character actress in comic and dramatic plays. She possibly best known for the lead role in Noel Coward's the vortex in 1924, shortly before walking out for the opening night.

Cutler performed in films between 1929 and 1938, including the business law (1930), the Great Gay road (1931), Lord of the manor (1933), the come-out of the pantry (1935) Moscow Nights (1935). Every last movie of Pygmalion in 1938. An obituary notice in The Manchester Guardian said of each, "musical comedy actress who proved she can play at the moment in the lead on the bell to go play in the lead anything else. ... She was a really accomplished actress with that indefinable quality which we call style."

Cutler's second husband, Major Charles Dudley Ward, all predeceased. She died at home in London, age 90.