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Dame Frances Margaret Anderson, (10 February 18973 January 1992), known professionally as Judith Anderson, was an Australian actress who had a successful career in stage, film and television. A pre-eminent stage actress in her era, she won two
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s and a Tony Award and was also nominated for a Grammy Award and an Academy Award. She is considered one of the 20th century's greatest classical stage actors.


Early life

Frances Margaret Anderson was born in 1897 in Adelaide, South Australia, the youngest of four children born to Jessie Margaret (née Saltmarsh; 19 October 1862 – 24 November 1950), a former nurse, and Scottish-born James Anderson Anderson, a sharebroker and pioneering prospector. She attended a private school, Norwood, where her education ended before graduation.


Early acting

She made her professional debut (as Francee Anderson) in 1915, playing Stephanie at the Theatre Royal, Sydney, in ''A Royal Divorce''. Leading the company was the Scottish actor Julius Knight whom she later credited with laying the foundations of her acting skills. She appeared alongside him in adaptations of ''The Scarlet Pimpernel'', ''The Three Musketeers'', ''Monsieur Beacauire'' and ''David Garrick''. In 1917 she toured New Zealand.


Early years in America

Anderson was ambitious and wanted to leave Australia. Most local actors went to London but the war made this difficult so she decided on the US. She travelled to California but was unsuccessful for four months, then moved to New York, with an equal lack of success. After a period of poverty and illness, she found work with the Emma Bunting Stock Company at the Fourteenth Street Theatre in 1918–19. She then toured with other stock companies.


Broadway and film

She made her Broadway debut in ''Up the Stairs'' (1922) followed by ''The Crooked Square'' (1923) and she went to Chicago with ''Patches'' (1923). She appeared in ''Peter Weston'' (1923), which only had a short run. One year later, she had changed her acting forename (albeit not for legal purposes) to Judith and had her first triumph with the play ''Cobra'' (1924) co-starring Louis Calhern, which ran for 35 performances. Anderson then went on to ''The Dove'' (1925) which went for 101 performances and really established her on Broadway. She toured Australia in 1927 with three plays: ''Tea for Three'', ''
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'' and ''Cobra''. Back on Broadway she was in ''Behold the Bridegroom'' (1927–28) by George Kelly and had the lead role in ''Anna'' (1928). She replaced Lynn Fontanne during the successful run of '' Strange Interlude'' (1929). Anderson made her film debut in a short for Warner Bros, ''Madame of the Jury'' (1930). She made her feature film debut with a role in ''
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'' (1933). In 1931, she played the Unknown Woman in the American premiere of Pirandello's ''As You Desire Me'', which ran for 142 performances. (It was
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the following year with Greta Garbo in the same role.) She was in a short-lived revival of ''
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'' (1932), then did ''Firebird'' (1932), ''Conquest'', ''The Drums Begin'' (both 1933), and ''The Mask and the Face'' (1933, with
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). Anderson then focused on Broadway with ''Come of Age'' (1934), and ''Divided By Three'' (1934).


Broadway star

She had a big hit with the lead in
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' '' The Old Maid'' (1935) from the novel by
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, in the role later played
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by Miriam Hopkins. It ran for 305 performances. In 1936, Anderson played Gertrude to John Gielgud's Hamlet in a production which featured
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as Ophelia. In 1937, she joined the Old Vic Company in London and played
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opposite
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in a production by Michel Saint-Denis, at the Old Vic and the New Theatre. She returned to Broadway with ''Family Portrait'' (1939), which she adored but only had a short run. She later toured in the show.Smith, Cecil (22 April 1985). "Dame Judith Anderson: Living, Working Legend". ''Los Angeles Times'', page G2.


''Rebecca''

Anderson then received a career boost when she was cast in
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's ''
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'' (1940). As the housekeeper Mrs. Danvers, she was required to mentally torment the young bride, the "second Mrs. de Winter" ( Joan Fontaine), even encouraging her to commit suicide; and to taunt her husband (
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) with the memory of his first wife, the never-seen "Rebecca" of the title. The film was a huge critical and commercial success, and Anderson was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the
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. Anderson was second billed in an
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comedy, '' Forty Little Mothers'' (1940) at MGM. She stayed at that studio for '' Free and Easy'' (1941) then went over to RKO to play the title role in '' Lady Scarface'' (1941). In 1941, she played Lady Macbeth again in New York opposite Maurice Evans in a production staged by Margaret Webster, a role she was to reprise with Evans on television, firstly in 1954 and then again in 1960 (the second version was released as a feature film in Europe). This ran for 131 performances. She returned to films to make four movies at Warner Bros: '' All Through the Night'', and '' Kings Row'' (both 1942), '' Edge of Darkness'', and '' Stage Door Canteen'' (both 1943). In 1942–43, on stage she played Olga in Chekhov's '' Three Sisters'', in a production which also featured
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, Ruth Gordon, Edmund Gwenn,
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and Alexander Knox. (
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, playing an orderly, made his Broadway debut in the production.) It ran for 123 performances. The production was so illustrious, it made it to the cover of '' Time''. Anderson returned to Hollywood to appear in ''
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'' (1944). She briefly returned to Australia to tour American army camps. She was back in Hollywood to appear in '' And Then There Were None'' (1945), '' The Diary of a Chambermaid'' (1946), and '' The Strange Love of Martha Ivers'' (1946). Anderson had rare top billing in ''
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'' (1946), written and directed by
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. She returned to support roles for '' Pursued'' (1947), '' The Red House'' (1947), and '' Tycoon'' (1947).


''Medea''

In 1947, she triumphed as Medea in a version of Euripides' eponymous tragedy, written by the poet Robinson Jeffers and produced by John Gielgud, who played Jason. She was a friend of Jeffers and a frequent visitor to his home Tor House in Carmel, California. She won the Tony Award for Best Actress for her performance. The show ran for 214 performances. Anderson then toured throughout the country with it.Scheuer, Philip K. (26 September 1948). "Judith Anderson Puts Her All Into Amazing ''Medea'' Portrayal: Judith Anderson Gives Her All to ''Medea'' Role". ''Los Angeles Times'', page D1. 1950s On the big screen, Anderson played a golddigger in
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's western '' The Furies'' (1950) and made her TV debut in a 1951 adaptation of ''
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'' for ''
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''. She guest starred on TV shows like '' The Billy Rose Show'' and ''
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''. She returned to Broadway with ''The Tower Beyond Tragedy'' by Jeffers (1950), and toured ''Medea'' in German in 1951. She was in a New York revival of ''Come of Age'' in 1952. She was Herodias in ''
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'' (1953) and played in ''
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'' on '' The Motorola Television Hour''. In 1953, she was directed by
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in his own adaptation of Stephen Vincent Benét's '' John Brown's Body'' with a cast also featuring
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and Tyrone Power. Then she did ''In the Summer House'' (1953–54) on Broadway. On television she was in ''
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'' (1954) with Maurice Evans for which she won The Emmy Award for Best Actress in a Single Performance, and '' The Elgin Hour''. She was in several episodes of '' The Star and the Story'' and an episode of '' Climax! '' as well as playing Memnet in Cecil B. DeMille's epic '' The Ten Commandments'' (1956). In 1955 she toured Australia with ''Medea''. In 1956 she was in a production of '' Caesar and Cleopatra'' for '' Producers' Showcase''. Anderson appeared in a 1958 adaptation of '' The Bridge of San Luis Rey'' for '' The DuPont Show of the Month'' and played the memorable role of Big Mama, alongside Burl Ives as Big Daddy, in the screen adaptation of Tennessee Williams's play, ''
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'' (1958). She followed it with a return to Broadway, in the short-lived ''Comes a Day'' by Speed Lampkin (1958). "I don't profess to know much about films", she said around this time. "I seldom see one." Anderson reprised her performance as '' Medea'' for TV in 1959; in the same year she appeared in a small-screen adaptation of '' The Moon and Sixpence'' with Laurence Olivier. She had a role in the '' Wagon Train'' episode "The Felizia Kingdom Story", and appeared in several episodes of ''
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'' and one of ''
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''. In later years she starred as Minx Lockridge in the daytime NBC soap opera '' Santa Barbara'' from 1984 until 1987.


1960s

In 1960, she played Madame Arkadina in Chekhov's '' The Seagull'' first at the Edinburgh Festival, and then at the Old Vic, with
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, Cyril Luckham and Tony Britton. That year she also performed in '' Cradle Song'' and ''
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'' (both 1960) for TV. She won The Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role, for once again playing Lady MacBeth. She had support roles in '' Cinderfella'' (1960) and ''
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'' (1961). In 1961 she toured an evening in which she performed ''Macbeth'', ''Medea'' and ''Tower''. Anderson was in ''
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'' (1964) for TV. In 1966 she did a performance on stage in ''Elizabeth the Queen'' which received poor reviews. She received acclaim for her lead performance in a TV version of '' Elizabeth the Queen'' (1968, with
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). She followed it with '' The File on Devlin'' (1969) and '' A Man Called Horse'' (1970). The latter was her first feature since ''Why Bother to Knock''. In 1970, she realised a long-held ambition to play the title role of '' Hamlet'' on a national tour of the United States and at New York's
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.


Spoken word and radio

She also recorded many spoken word record albums for
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from the 1950s to the 1970s, including scenes from ''Macbeth'' with Maurice Anderson (Victor, in 1941), an adaption of ''Medea'', Robert Louis Stevenson verses, and readings from the Bible. She received a Grammy nomination for her work on the '' Wuthering Heights'' recording. ;Radio broadcasts


Return to Australia

Anderson returned briefly to Australia. She guest-starred in ''
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'' and was in the film ''
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'' (1974). Her other credits that decade included '' The Borrowers'' (1973) and ''
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'' (1974)


Later career

In 1982, she returned to ''Medea'', this time playing the Nurse opposite Zoe Caldwell in the title role. Caldwell had appeared in a small role in the Australian tour of ''Medea'' in 1955–56. She was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play. In 1984, she appeared in '' Star Trek III: The Search for Spock'' as the Vulcan High Priestess T'Lar. That same year, she commenced a three-year stint as matriarch Minx Lockridge on the NBC serial '' Santa Barbara''. When asked why, she replied "Why not? It's practically the same as doing a play." She had professed to be a fan of the daytime genre – she had watched ''
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'' for twenty years – but after signing with ''Santa Barbara'', she complained about her lack of screen time. The highlight of her stint was when Minx tearfully revealed the horrific truth that she had switched the late Channing Capwell with Brick Wallace as a baby, preventing her illegitimate grandson from being raised as a Capwell. This resulted in her receiving a Supporting Actress Emmy Nomination although her screen time afterwards diminished to infrequent appearances. After leaving the series, she was succeeded in the role by the quarter-century younger American actress Janis Paige. Her last movies were ''The Booth'' and ''
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'' (both 1985).


Personal life

Anderson was married twice and declared that "neither experience was a jolly holiday": * Benjamin Harrison Lehmann (1889–1977), an English professor at the University of California at Berkeley; they wed in 1937 and divorced in August 1939. By this marriage she had a stepson, Benjamin Harrison Lehmann Jr. (born 1918). * Luther Greene (1909–1987), a theatrical producer; they were married in July 1946 and divorced in 1951. * Anderson was interviewed by Boze Hadleigh for his book “Hollywood Lesbians”, 1994.


Death

Anderson spent much of her life in Santa Barbara, California, where she died of pneumonia in 1992, aged 94.


Honours

Anderson was created a
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(DBE) in 1960 and thereafter was often billed as "Dame Judith Anderson". On 10 June 1991, in the 1991 Australian Queen's Birthday Honours, she was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC), "in recognition of service to the performing arts".


Complete filmography

* ''Madame of the Jury'' (1930, Short) * ''
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'' (1933) – Ruby Darling * ''
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'' (1940) – Mrs. Danvers * '' Forty Little Mothers'' (1940) – Madame Madeleine Granville * '' Free and Easy'' (1941) – Lady Joan Culver * '' Lady Scarface'' (1941) – Slade * '' All Through the Night'' (1942) – Madame * '' Kings Row'' (1942) – Mrs. Harriet Gordon * '' Edge of Darkness'' (1943) – Gerd Bjarnesen * '' Stage Door Canteen'' (1943) – Judith Anderson * ''
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'' (1944) – Ann Treadwell * '' And Then There Were None'' (1945) – Emily Brent * '' The Diary of a Chambermaid'' (1946) – Madame Lanlaire * '' The Strange Love of Martha Ivers'' (1946) – Mrs. Ivers * ''
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'' (1946) – Madame La Sylph * '' Pursued'' (1947) – Mrs. Callum * '' The Red House'' (1947) – Ellen Morgan * '' Tycoon'' (1947) – Miss Braithwaite * '' The Furies'' (1950) – Flo Burnett * ''
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'' (1953) – Queen Herodias * ''Macbeth'' (1954, TV Movie) –
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* '' The Ten Commandments'' (1956) – Memnet * ''
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'' (1958) – Big Momma Pollitt * ''The Felizia Kingdom Story'' (1959 tv series - Wagon Train) - Felizia Kingdom * ''The Moon and Sixpence'' (1959, TV Movie) – Tiare * ''A Christmas Festival'' (1959, TV Movie) – Narrator of the final offering * ''Cradle Song'' (1960, TV Movie) – The Prioress * ''Macbeth'' (1960, TV Movie) – Lady Macbeth * '' Cinderfella'' (1960) – Wicked Stepmother * '' Don't Bother to Knock'' (1961) – Maggie Shoemaker * ''The Ghost of Sierra de Cobre'' (1964, TV Movie) – Paulina * ''Elizabeth the Queen'' (1968, TV Movie) – Queen Elizabeth I * ''The File on Devlin'' (1969, TV Movie) – Elizabeth Devlin * '' A Man Called Horse'' (1970) – Buffalo Cow Head * ''The Borrowers'' (1973, TV Movie) – Aunt Sophy * ''The Underground Man'' (1974, TV Movie) – Mrs. Snow * ''The Chinese Prime Minister'' (1974, TV Movie) – She * ''
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'' (1975) – Caroline Straulle * ''Medea'' (1983, TV Movie) – Nurse * '' Star Trek III: The Search for Spock'' (1984) – T'Lar * ''The Booth'' (1985, TV Movie) * ''
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'' (1985) – The Sister of Purgatory


Sources


Dame Judith Anderson papers
at the University of California, Santa Barbara Library; accessed 19 August 2014.
Dame Judith Anderson prompts
, at the National Library of Australia website; accessed 19 August 2014.
Dame Judith Anderson
at the
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