Judith Anderson

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AKA: Frances Margaret Anderson-Anderson, Dame Judith Anderson, Frances Anderson
Nationality: Australian
Birthdate: 02/10/1898
Birthplace: Adelaide, Australia
Death Date: 01/03/1992

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 Continued

Credits

Big Mama Pollitt
1958
Memnet
1956
Actor
1947
Mrs. Danvers
1940
Maggie Shoemaker
Actor
Wicked Stepmother
Buffalo Cow Head
Caroline Straulle

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"
Continued

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