Leueen MacGrath; Playwright, Stage Star in London and N.Y.

Actress Leueen MacGrath, who starred on Broadway and in London and co-wrote the 1955 musical “Silk Stockings,” has died at her home in London. She was 77.

No cause of her death Friday was given.

She was born in London on July 3, 1914, studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and made her stage debut at London’s Garrick Theater in 1933 in “Beggars in Hell.”

A London theater season rarely passed in the 1940s and ‘50s without her starring in a new stage production.

She made her first stage appearance in New York in 1948, when she played Eileen in “Edward, My Son.”

Her other Broadway triumphs included “Farewell, Farewell Eugene,” “Ghosts,” “The Love of Four Colonels,” “The Enchanted” and “The Potting Shed.”

Ms. MacGrath wrote “Silk Stockings” with George S. Kaufman, the third of her five husbands. The music and lyrics for the Broadway hit were by Cole Porter.

As a playwright, she collaborated with Kaufman in two other Broadway shows--”The Small Hours” and “Fancy Meeting You.”

Her husbands were Christopher Burn, Desmond Davis, Kaufman, Stephen Goodyear and Stephen Quinto. Each of the five marriages ended in divorce.

Her final London stage appearances were starring opposite Sir Alec Guinness in “Voyage Round My Father” in 1966 and opposite Zoe Caldwell in “A Bequest to the Nation” in 1970.

Films in which she appeared included “Pygmalion” in 1938, “Edward, My Son” in 1949 and “Three Cases of Murder” in 1954.