Esther McCracken
25 June 1902 – 9 August 1971
Esther Helen McCracken (née Armstrong), born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, was a British actress and playwright. Esther was educated at the Central Newcastle High School, where she won the cricket-ball throwing competition every year. From 1929, she acted with the Newcastle Repertory Company. Her first play *The Willing Spirit* was produced in 1936. It was her second play, *Quiet Wedding*, in 1938, which made her reputation as a writer of domestic comedy and took her to London. It was later filmed by Anthony Asquith in 1941, and by Roy Boulting in 1958, as *Happy Is the Bride*. Her n
