Jessica tandy biography husbands
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Life After Jessie : For 52 years, Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy shared the love story of the century. Her death last year devastated him, but his love lives on.
EASTON, Conn. — The East was made for spring, and it is a supremely glorious spring day in Connecticut, almost cloudless, briskly breezy. The four dogwood trees along the drive--pink, white, pink, white--are in bud. In a week, Hume Cronyn says, taking a visitor for a stroll around the grounds, “they’ll be magnificent.”
Forsythia are blooming along a stone wall behind the house, a two-story Dutch Colonial, and there are clusters of daffodils here and there. Workers are mulching the flower beds.
“They tell me we have 1,700 square feet of beds,” Cronyn says, sounding more intimidated than proud. “They were Jessie’s doing. She loved gardening.”
Cronyn’s late wife, Jessica Tandy, who died in the house in September at age 85 after a five-year battle with ovarian cancer, is an almost palpable presence, the gardens jus
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Jessica Tandy
Jessica Tandy (born Jessie Alice Tandy; 7 June 1909 – 11 September 1994) was a British-American stage and film actress. She appeared in over 100 stage productions and had more than 60 roles in film and TV.
Born in London to Jessie Helen Horspool and commercial traveller Harry Tandy, she was only 18 when she made her professional debut on the London stage in 1927. During the 1930s, she appeared in a large number of plays in London's West End, playing roles such as Ophelia (opposite John Gielgud's legendary Hamlet) and Katherine (opposite Laurence Olivier's Henry V).
During this period, she also worked in a couple of British films. Following the end of her marriage to the British actor Jack Hawkins, she moved to New York in 1940, where she met Canadian actor Hume Cronyn. He became her second husband and frequent partner on stage and screen.
She received the Tony Award for best performance by a Leading Actress in A Play for her performance as Blanche DuBois in th
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| Jessica Tandy | |
Tandy, c. 1950s | |
| Born | Jessie Alice Tandy June 07 1909(1909-06-07) Hackney, London, England |
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| Died | September 11 1994 (aged 85) Easton, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1927–1994 |
| Spouse(s) | Jack Hawkins (m. 1932; div. 1940) Hume Cronyn (m. 1942) |
| Children | 3 |
Jessie Alice Tandy (June 7, 1909 – September 11, 1994) was a British-American actress. Tandy appeared in over 100 scen productions and had more than 60 roles in film and TV, receiving an Academy Award, kvartet Tony Awards, a BAFTA, a Golden Globe Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award. She was an acclaimed scen actress, excelling in both classical and popular productions on the London scen, including various Shakespearean roles, and then became famous for playing Blanche DuBois in the original huvudgata production of A Streetcar Named Desire (1948).
Although she was not given leading roles in screen productions for many years, she finally achieved well-deserved reco