Dame Judith Anderson, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1934

Dame Judith Anderson, AC DBE (February 10, 1897–January 3, 1992), born Frances Margaret Anderson-Anderson, was an Tony award and Emmy winning stage and film actress who was also nominated for a Grammy and an Oscar. Dame Judith Anderson photographed by Carl Van Vechten, September 11, 1934 From the collection of the Library of Congress and in the public domain: http://memory. ... Dame Judith Anderson photographed by Carl Van Vechten, September 11, 1934 From the collection of the Library of Congress and in the public domain: http://memory. ... Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, wearing on her left shoulder the Order of Australias Sovereign Badge. ... Commanders Badge of the Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions; in decreasing order of seniority, these are... February 10 is the 41st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1897 (MDCCCXCVII) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... January 3 is the 3rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ... An Emmy Award. ... Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Grammy Award statuette The Grammy Awards, presented by the Recording Academy (an association of Americans professionally involved in the recorded music industry) for outstanding achievements in the recording industry, is one of four major music awards shows held annually in the United States (the Billboard Music Awards, the American Music... The references in this article would be clearer with a different and/or consistent style of citation, footnoting or external linking. ...

Early life

Born in Adelaide, South Australia, Anderson began acting in Australia before moving to New York in 1918. She established herself as a dramatic actress of note making several appearances in the plays of William Shakespeare. For other uses, see Adelaide (disambiguation). ... Emblems: Hairy Nosed Wombat (faunal); Leafy Seadragon (marine); Piping Shrike (bird: unofficial); Sturts Desert Pea (floral); Opal (gemstone) Motto: United for the Common Wealth Slogan or Nickname: Festival State Other Australian states and territories Capital Adelaide Government Const. ... Official language(s) English de facto Capital Albany Largest city New York City Area  Ranked 27th  - Total 54,520 sq mi (141,205 km²)  - Width 285 miles (455 km)  - Length 330 miles (530 km)  - % water 13. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...

Career

Anderson began her career on the American stage in the mid 1920s and had her first triumph in 1926 with the play Cobra. By the early 1930s she had established herself as one of the greatest theatre actresses of her era and she was a major star on Broadway throughout the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. Egyptian Cobra Cobras are venomous snakes of family Elapidae, of several genera. ... Broadway theatre[1] is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the United States. ...

In Hollywood, her striking, not conventionally attractive features meant that her opportunities were limited to supporting character actress work. She naturally preferred the stage in any event. However she did make a handful of significant films. In particular, she was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca (1940). As the housekeeper "Mrs. Danvers", Judith Anderson was required to mentally torment the young bride, the "2nd Mrs. de Winter" (Joan Fontaine), even encouraging her to commit suicide; and taunt her husband (Laurence Olivier) with the memory of his first wife, the never-seen "Rebecca" of the title. "Mrs. Danvers" as conceived by Judith Anderson is widely considered one of the screen's most memorable and sexually ambiguous female villains. (The Oscar went to Jane Darwell, in The Grapes of Wrath.) ... Best Supporting Actor or Best Supporting Actress is an accolade given by a group of film or theatre professionals in recognition of the work of supporting and character actors. ... The references in this article would be clearer with a different and/or consistent style of citation, footnoting or external linking. ... Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE (August 13, 1899 – April 29, 1980) was a highly influential director and producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres. ... Rebecca is an Academy Award–winning 1940 psychological thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock as his first American project. ... Joan Fontaine (born October 22, 1917) is a Japanese-born British actress, who became an American citizen in April 1943. ... Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM (22 May 1907–11 July 1989) was an Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA and four-time Emmy winning English actor, director, and producer. ... Jane Darwell (born October 15, 1879; died August 13, 1967) was an Academy Award-winning American theater and film actress. ... The Grapes of Wrath is a classic novel published in 1939 and written by John Steinbeck, who was subsequently awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. ...

This led to several film appearances during the 1940s in such films as Kings Row (1943), Laura (1944), And Then There Were None (film) (1945), and The Diary of a Chambermaid (1946). She continued returning to the New York stage, playing the role of Lady Macbeth twice, and winning a Tony Award in 1948 for her historically acclaimed bravura performance in the title role of Medea. Kings Row is a 1942 film which tells the story of a group of children who grow up leading supposedly idyllic lives in a small town with disturbing secrets. ... Laura is a 1944 film noir which tells the story of a police detective, investigating a womans murder, who falls in love with her portrait. ... The 1945 movie And Then There Were None is one of several film adaptations of Agatha Christies best-selling mystery novel And Then There Were None concerning several people summoned to an island retreat by a mysterious stranger, only to meet their ends one by one. ... The Diary of a Chambermaid (French: Le journal dune femme de chambre) is a 1900 decadent novel by Octave Mirbeau. ... Official language(s) English de facto Capital Albany Largest city New York City Area  Ranked 27th  - Total 54,520 sq mi (141,205 km²)  - Width 285 miles (455 km)  - Length 330 miles (530 km)  - % water 13. ... Lady Macbeth by George Cattermole Lady Macbeth is a character in Shakespeares play Macbeth. ... What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Medea is a tragedy written by Euripides, based on the myth of Jason and Medea and first produced in 431 BCE. Along with the plays Philoctetes, Dictys and Theristai, which were all entered as a group, it won the third prize at the Dionysia festival. ...

Many years later she would appear in Medea with fellow Australian-born actress, Zoe Caldwell, in the title role, as the supporting character of the "Nurse". She holds the unusual distinction of winning two separate Emmy Awards for playing the same role - Lady Macbeth - in two separate productions of Macbeth. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... An Emmy Award. ... Scene from Macbeth, depicting the witches conjuring of an apparition in Act IV, Scene I. Painting by William Rimmer The Tragedy of Macbeth is among the most famous of William Shakespeares plays, as well as his shortest tragedy. ...

Her stage and film work continued and by the 1950s she was also appearing in television productions. She gave memorable performances as Herodias in Salome (1953), Big Momma in the film of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), Evil Stepmother in Cinderfella, and Buffalo Cow Head in A Man Called Horse (1970). This article is about the 1953 film. ... Tennessee Williams (1965) Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911–February 25, 1983), better known by the pen name Tennessee Williams, was a major American playwright and one of the prominent playwrights of the twentieth century. ... Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a play by Tennessee Williams. ... Cinderfella is a 1960 film comedy starring Jerry Lewis directed by Frank Tashlin. ... A Man Called Horse originally published as Indian Country (ISBN 0803275854) is a book by Dorothy M. Johnson. ...

Anderson also recorded many spoken word record albums for Caedmon Audio in the 1950's through the 1970's. She received a Grammy nomination for her work on the Wuthering Heights recording. Spoken word is a form of music or artistic performance in which lyrics, poetry, or stories are spoken rather than sung. ... Caedmon Audio is a recording label specializing in audio books and other literary content. ... Wuthering Heights is Emily Brontës only novel. ...

In her later years she played two more prominent roles in productions that took her as far away from her Shakespearean origins as possible. In 1984 she appeared in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock as the Vulcan High Priestess (at the age of 87), and the same year commenced a three-year stint as matriarch Minx Lockridge on the popular soap opera Santa Barbara. She had professed to be a fan, but after signing the contract she bitterly complained about her lack of screen time. She was succeeded in the role by the American actress, Janis Paige, who was a quarter of a century younger. 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (Paramount Pictures, 1984; see also 1984 in film) is the third feature film based on the popular Star Trek science fiction television series. ... This article or section may need to be cleaned up and rewritten because it describes a work of fiction in a primarily in-universe style. ... The first TIME cover devoted to soap operas: Dated January 12, 1976, Bill Hayes and Susan Seaforth Hayes of Days of our Lives are featured with the headline Soap Operas: Sex and suffering in the afternoon. A soap opera is an ongoing, episodic work of fiction, usually broadcast on television... Santa Barbara was an American soap opera which ran on NBC for 2137 episodes from July 30, 1984 to January 15, 1993. ... Janis Paige (Birthname: Donna Mae Tjaden b. ...

Private life

She also loved the city of Santa Barbara, California and spent the remainder of her life there, dying of pneumonia in 1992 at the age of 95. She was survived by several nieces and nephews, both in America and Australia. Santa Barbara is a city in California, United States. ... It has been suggested that CURB-65 be merged into this article or section. ...

Anderson was created a Dame Commander of the British Empire (DBE) in 1960 and thereafter was often billed as "Dame Judith Anderson". Commanders Badge of the Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions; in decreasing order of seniority, these are...

Anderson was married and divorced twice in her life, and was a Godmother, but not a parent.

References

• Judith Anderson at the Internet Movie Database
• Judith Anderson article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki.
• Eric Pace. "Dame Judith Anderson Dies at 93; An Actress of Powerful Portrayals." The New York Times. January 4, 1992. 27.

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External links

• Dame Judith Anderson papers, at the University of California, Santa Barbara Library.