Judith AndersonAKA:
Frances Margaret Anderson-Anderson
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Frances Anderson
Dame
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Judith Anderson
Nationality:
Australian Birthdate:
02/10/1898 Birthplace:
Adelaide, Australia Death Date:
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biography
A leading Broadway star from the 1920s through the 50s, Judith Anderson was perhaps most famous for her savage, award-winning performance as "Medea" in 1947; as a formidable Lady Macbeth (opposite Laurence Olivier in London in 1937 and Maurice Evans on Broadway in 1941); and as an interpreter of the neurotic heroines of Eugene O'Neill (Nina in "Strange Interlude" in 1928 and Lavinia in "Mourning Becomes Electra" in 1932). Anderson made her film debut in 1933 and played the sinister housekeeper Mrs. Danvers in Hitchcock's "Rebecca" seven years later. It was the first, and most memorable, in a
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milestones
Year
Milestone
1915
Stage debut in "A Royal Divorce" at the Theater Royal in Sydney, Australia
Toured Australia with an American stock company
1918
Went to Hollywood with a letter of introduction to Cecil B DeMille, who rejected her for the movies
1918
New York stage debut (Broadway stock) at the 14th Street Theatre
1924
Broadway debut in "The Cobra"
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