- Iris Tree
Iris Tree (1897 - 1968) was an English
poet and actress, described as a bohemian, an eccentric, awit and an adventuress.Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree was her father. She was sought after, as a young woman, as an artists' model, being painted byAugustus John , simultaneously byDuncan Grant ,Vanessa Bell andRoger Fry , and sculpted byJacob Epstein , showing her bobbed hair (she was said to have cut off the rest and left it on a train) that, along with other behaviour, caused much scandal. She was photographed byMan Ray . She ran withNancy Cunard for a time, in a set at theEiffel Tower Restaurant of Rudolph Stulik; and acted alongsideDiana Cooper in the mid-1920s.She had studied at the
Slade School of Art . She contributed verse to the 1917 Sitwellanthology "Wheels"; her published collections were "Poems" (1920) and "The Traveller and other Poems" (1927).She married twice. Her first marriage was to
Curtis Moffat , a New Yorker;Ivan Moffat , thescreenwriter , was their son. Her second marriage was to the actor and ex-officer of theAustria n cavalry, Friedrich von Ledebur-Wicheln. They both appear (after their divorce) in the 1956 film version of "Moby-Dick ". She also appears in a cameo, essentially as herself, inFederico Fellini 's "La dolce vita ".She is the great grandmother of actress
Georgina Moffat .References
* "The Rainbow Picnic: A Portrait of Iris Tree" (1974)
Daphne Vivian Fielding External links
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0871678/ IMDb entry]
* [http://www.bris.ac.uk/theatrecollection/beerbohm.html Tree archive at the University of Bristol Theatre Collection] ,University of Bristol
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