 In addition to her many stage roles, which included Queen Gertrude opposite John Barrymore's "Hamlet", she was an occasional director and playwright.She remained active in theater and film until the late 1960s.Her most famous film role was Madame Defarge in MGM's version of "A Tale of Two Cities" (1935), but she was also the compassionate aunt in "The Song of Bernadette" (1943).