Elizabeth Inglis

Inglis was born Desiree Mary Lucy Hawkins{{cite web |work=Los Angeles Times |date=7 August 2007 |title= Obituaries |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-sep-07-me-passings7-story.html |access-date=30 September 2018 }} in Colchester on 10 July 1913, the daughter of Margaret Inglis (née Hunt) and Alan George Hawkins.

Inglis' screen debut was in the film Borrowed Clothes (1934). She then had a small part as Hilary Jordan in Alfred Hitchcock's film The 39 Steps (1935). She played the young maid Nancy in the original British production of Patrick Hamilton's play Gas Light, which premiered on 5 December 1938 and closed on 10 June 1939 after 141 performances.{{cite book |last=Wearing |first=J. P. |date=2014 |title=The London Stage 1930–1939: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z2mYAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA730 |location= Lanham, Maryland |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |page=740 |isbn=9780810893047 }} Inglis and the rest of the cast recreated their stage roles for a 1939 television presentation performed live on BBC Television.{{cite web |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7fca2a37 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181122192905/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7fca2a37 |url-status=dead |archive-date=22 November 2018 |title=Gaslight (1939) |publisher=British Film Institute |access-date=12 August 2018 }} In Hollywood, Inglis played Adele Ainsworth in William Wyler's film The Letter (1940). By this time, she was using the stage name Elizabeth Earl.{{cite web |url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/PersonDetails/46483 |title=Elizabeth Earl |website=AFI Catalog of Feature Films |publisher=American Film Institute |access-date=12 August 2018 }}{{cite book |last=Lentz III |first=Harris M. |date= 2008 |title=Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2007 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AX3GCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA176 |location=Jefferson, North Carolina |publisher=McFarland and Company |page=176 |isbn= 9780786451913 }}

Inglis was married to American television executive Pat Weaver from 1942 until his death in 2002.{{cite news |first=Thomas J. |last=Lueck |title=Sylvester Weaver, 93, Dies; Created 'Today' and 'Tonight' |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D07E3DF1438F93BA25750C0A9649C8B63 |quote=Sylvester L. Weaver Jr., a pioneering television executive who created the NBC programs Today and Tonight and did much to shape the medium's pervasive influence, died Friday at his home in Santa Barbara, Calif. He was 93. |work=The New York Times |date= 18 March 2002 |access-date=20 September 2008 }} She retired from acting after they married. The couple had two children, including actress Sigourney Weaver.{{cite web |title=Sigourney Weaver: Family |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/203050%7C0/sigourney-weaver#family-companions |work=TCM |access-date=6 February 2020 }}

In a deleted scene from Aliens (1986), a photograph of Inglis was used to portray Amanda Ripley, the elderly daughter of Weaver's character Ellen Ripley.{{cite AV media |people=Ridley Scott, James Cameron, H. R. Giger, Dan O'Bannon, Ronald Shusett |title=The Alien Saga |medium=DVD |publisher=Prometheus Entertainment |date=2002 }}

Inglis died on 25 August 2007 in Santa Barbara, California at the age of 94.

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