Frances Margaret Anderson AC DBE (1897 - 1992)

Born 10 Feb 1897 in Adelaide, Adelaide City, South Australia, Australia

Ancestors

Wife of Luther Ward Greene — married 11 Jul 1946 (to 26 Jun 1951) in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States

Died 3 Jan 1992 at age 94 in Montecito, Santa Barbara County, California, United States

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Biography

Judith Anderson AC DBE is Notable.

• "She is considered one of the 20th century's greatest classical stage actors."^[1]
• d/o James Anderson Anderson (sharebroker, prospector) & Jessie Margaret Saltmarsh (nurse)^[1]
• 1937 m. Benjamin Harrison Lehmann (professor, UC Berkeley) (div Aug 1939)^[1]
• July 1946 m. Luther Greene (theatre producer) (div 1951)^[1]
• died of pneumonia
• She was cremated^[2]

• 1959/1960 Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)
• 10 June 1991 Companion of the Order of Australia (AC)

• 1922 Broadway Debut, Up the Stairs
• 1924 Broadway success with Cobra and The Dove (1925)
• 1930 Film Debut, Madame of the Jury
• 1940 played Mrs. Danvers in Hitchcock's Rebecca - nominated for Best Supporting Actor by the Academy Awards
• 1945 played Emily Brent in Christie's And Then There Were NoneAnd Then There Were None^[3][4]
• 1947 played the title role in Medea for which she won an Tony Award - Note: She is not listed in the database at tonyawards.com for 1947 or 1948 and a search of her name returns nothing
• 1951 Television Debut
• 1954 won an Emmy for Best Actress in a Single Performance for her performance in Macbeth (1954), again winning an Emmy for Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in 1960 for playing Lady Macbeth in another broadcast of Macbeth on TV
• 1970 played title role in Hamlet on tour in the US and at Carnegie Hall
• Grammy Nomination for spoken word album for Wuthering Heights
• 1982 Tony Nomination
• 1984 played the Vulcan High Priestess T'Lar in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock - Leonard Nimoy wanted her, specifically, for the role and her nephew pushed her to accept the role... she won a Saturn Award for her performance^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Wikipedia:Judith Anderson, accessed 30 July 2021.
2. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #6469826, photos, accessed 30 July 2021.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} "Judith Anderson (bio)." IMDb. No date. IMDb.com. Accessed 30 July 2021.
4. ↑ Wikipedia:And Then There Were None (1945 film), accessed 30 July 2021.

• National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington, D.C.; Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Honolulu, Hawaii, compiled 02/13/1900 - 12/30/1953; National Archives Microfilm Publication: A3422; Roll: 237; Record Group Title: Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1787 - 2004; Record Group Number: RG 85
• Ancestry.com. Arizona, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1865-1972 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016.
• County Marriage Records. Arizona History and Archives Division, Phoenix, Arizona.
• Ancestry.com. Australia, Birth Index, 1788-1922 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.

Original data: Compiled from publicly available sources.

• Ancestry.com. Global, Find a Grave Index for Burials at Sea and other Select Burial Locations, 1300s-Current [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
• "And Then There Were None 1945." Charles Ewing Smith (channel). YouTube.com. Retrieved 30 July 2021. Note: This film is in the public domain.
• "And Then There Were None 1945." Film Restoration (channel). YouTube.com. Retrieved 30 July 2021. Note: This film is in the public domain.
• "Judith Anderson." at IBDb.com