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Anne Crawford

Anne Crawford

British actress and playwright (1920–1956)


Imelda Anne Crawford (22 November 1920 – 17 October 1956) was a British film actress.

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Biography

Crawford was born in Palestine to a Scottish father and an English mother, and brought up in Edinburgh.

A contemporary of Margaret Lockwood and Phyllis Calvert, Crawford is best remembered for her roles in women's pictures of the 1940s, such as Millions Like Us (1943), Two Thousand Women (1944), and They Were Sisters (1945).

She married Wallace Douglas in 1953 and died of leukemia in London in 1956, aged 35.[3] The Times, on 18 October 1956, reported that she was playing in Agatha Christie's The Spider's Web, at London's Savoy Theatre, when she became ill. After acting in a stage production of The Gift, about a scientist blinded by an accident, she added a codicil to her will leaving her eyes to the International Eye Bank.

Filmography

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References

  1. "Search Results for Overseas / Unknown records".
  2. "ANNE CRAWFORD. WES". The Canberra Times. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 19 October 1956. p. 20. Retrieved 15 June 2020 via Trove.



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