Adelaide Festival Centre’s Performing Arts Collection will present a collection of one of the greatest dramatic actors of the 20th Century, Dame Judith Anderson.
Hitchcock to Spock: Life and times of our Dame Judith Anderson 1897 – 1992 is a tribute to the life of Dame Judith featuring costumes (one by Parisian fashion designer Jean Louis Bertault, Head of Design for Columbia Pictures and later Universal Pictures), programs, and photographs from the Dame Judith Anderson Collection, on display in the Festival Theatre foyer from 10 February – 4 June.
Dame Judith Anderson (born Frances Margaret Anderson-Anderson) was born in Adelaide in 1897 to James Anderson-Anderson, a silver miner with a gambling habit, and Jessie Margaret Saltmarsh. After finding a passion for acting whilst attending Rose Park Primary School and later Norwood High School, Frances Anderson made her debut on the professional stage touring Australia with Julius Knight’s company, before moving to America in 1918.
Over the sixty years that followed Judith Anderson became an icon of American theatre and, in 1985, a theatre on Broadway was named in her honour. Throughout her illustrious career Judith Anderson worked with some of the acting greats including Laurence Olivier, Sir John Gielgud, Orson Welles, Tyrone Power, Kirk Douglas, Alfred Hitchcock, and Sir Cecil De Mille.
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