Original Autographed Black & White Photo - Dame Judith Anderson, Leading Broadway Actress 1920's-40's

Included in a small album of early silent film memorabilia our consignor had from his father is this autographed photo, undated but late 1920's it would seem, of broadway leading actress Judith Anderson, who worked in multiple plays and films from the late 1920's through 1940's. The internet tells us this:

A leading Broadway star from the 1920s through the '50s, Judith Anderson was perhaps most famous for her 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 series of malevolent character roles that made good use of her commanding presence. Cast against type, Anderson made an effective Big Mama in Richard Brooks' film adaptation of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (1958). Late in her career she gained a new following as campy grande dame Minx Lockridge on the NBC soap opera "Santa Barbara." we also learned that Queen Elizabeth awarded her the distinction of Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1960 as part of the Queen's New Year's Honours List for her services to the performing arts.

Photograph has some trimming/loss in corners, which affected the tail end of her signature it was album mounted at one point. Measures 6.75" x 9.5" in size.

Consistent with age and use.

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