#379  Edna Kipp Chedsey

Born: March 16, 1884, Yonkers, New York

Died: December 27, 1962, North Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut

father: #247 Francis Bates Chedsey

mother: Josephine Frey

married: Daniel Phillip Platt 1905

Children:

#992 Francis Chedsey Platt b:  Aug. 28, 1910; d:  May 23, 1967, Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut; m: Barbara ?

#993 Jean Platt b: August 20, 1913, Torrington, Connecticut; d: Nov 24, 1993, Branford, New Haven, Connecticut; m: #1) John Pierce d: 1993; m #2) Herman Kintz

#994 Louise Platt b: August 3, 1915 Connecticut; d: September 6, 2003, Southold, Suffolk, New York; m: #1) Stanley Gould; m: #2) Jed Harris

Jean Platt Pierce Kintz

Birth:  1913

Death:  1993

Burial:

Old North Cemetery

Guilford

New Haven County

Connecticut, USA

Notes:  Daniel Phillip Platt  son of William and  Rose Platt

Louise Platt Gould:  Daughter of a naval doctor, grew up in Annapolis, Maryland.

While performing in a high school play, she caught the attention of a theater producer from St. John's College.

First husband was theatre director Jed Harris, about whom the biography "The Curse of Genius" was written. They had one daughter. She remained married to her second husband, teacher/director Stanley Gould, until his death. They also had one daughter.

Once tested for the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939).

Educated in New York, Manila and Hong Kong.

Alternated with her sister Jean in playing Belinda in "Johnny Belinda" on Broadway in 1941.

Her father was a US Navy officer, Lt. Cmdr. Daniel Louis Platt.

Learn more about Louise Platt Gould and her role in Stagecoach