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Jessica Tandy 1909 - 1994

Jessica Tandy of Rego Park, Queens County, NY was born on June 7, 1909 at Stoke Newington in Greater London County, England United Kingdom, and died at age 85 years old on September 11, 1994 in Easton, Fairfield County, Connecticut United States. Jessica Tandy was buried at Cremated. Ashes given to family..

Jessica Tandy

Rego Park, Queens County, NY 11374

June 7, 1909

Stoke Newington in Greater London County, England, United Kingdom

September 11, 1994

Easton, Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States

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Jessica Tandy Born June 7, 1909 in Stoke Newington, London, England, UK Died September 11, 1994 in Easton, Connecticut, USA (ovarian cancer) Birth Name Jessie Alice Tandy Height 5' 4" (1.63 m) A beloved, twinkly blue-eyed doyenne of stage and screen, actress Jessica Tandy's career spanned nearly six and a half decades. In that span of time, she enjoyed an amazing film renaissance at age 80, something unheard of in a town that worships youth and nubile beauty. She was born Jessie Alice Tandy in London in 1909, the daughter of Jessie Helen (Horspool), the head of a school for mentally handicapped children, and Harry Tandy, a traveling salesman. Her parents enrolled her as a teenager at the Ben Greet Academy of Acting, where she showed immediate promise. She was 16 when she made her professional bow as Sara Manderson in the play "The Manderson Girls", and was subsequently invited to join the Birmingham Repertory Theatre. Within a couple of years, Jessica was making a number of other debuts as well. Her first West End play was in "The Rumour" at the Court Theatre in 1929, her Gotham bow was in "The Matriarch" at the Longacre Theatre in 1930, and her initial film role was as a maid in The Indiscretions of Eve (1932). Jessica married British actor Jack Hawkins in 1932 after the couple had met performing in the play "Autumn Crocus" the year before. They had one daughter, Susan, before parting ways after eight years of marriage. An unconventional beauty, she was passed over for leading lady roles in films, thereby focusing strongly on a transatlantic stage career throughout the 1930s and 1940s. She grew in stature while enacting a succession of Shakespeare's premiere ladies (Titania, Viola, Ophelia, Cordelia). At the same time, she enjoyed personal successes elsewhere in such plays as "French Without Tears", "Honour Thy Father", "Jupiter Laughs", "Anne of England" and "Portrait of a Madonna". And then she gave life to Blanche DuBois. When Tennessee Williams' masterpiece "A Streetcar Named Desire" opened on Broadway on December 3, 1947, Jessica's name became forever associated with this entrancing Southern belle character. One of the most complex, beautifully drawn, and still sought-after femme parts of all time, she went on to win the coveted Tony award. Aside from introducing Marlon Brando to the general viewing public, "Streetcar" shot Jessica's marquee value up a thousandfold. But not in films. While her esteemed co-stars Brando, Kim Hunter and Karl Malden were given the luxury of recreating their roles in Elia Kazan's stark, black-and-white cinematic adaptation of A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), Jessica was devastatingly bypassed. Vivien Leigh, who played the role on stage in London and had already immortalized another coy, manipulative Southern belle on celluloid (Scarlett O'Hara), was a far more marketable film celebrity at the time and was signed on to play the delusional Blanche. To be fair, Leigh was nothing less than astounding in the role and went on to deservedly win the Academy Award (along with Malden and Hunter). Jessica would exact her revenge on Hollywood in later years. In 1942, she entered into a second marriage, with actor/producer/director Hume Cronyn, a 52-year union that produced two children, Christopher and Tandy, the latter an actor in her own right. The couple not only enjoyed great solo success, they relished performing in each other's company. A few of their resounding theatre triumphs included the "The Fourposter" (1951), "Triple Play" (1959), "Big Fish, Little Fish (1962), "Hamlet" (he played Polonius; she played Gertrude) (1963), "The Three Sisters (1963) and "A Delicate Balance." They supported together in films too, their first being The Seventh Cross (1944). In the film The Green Years (1946), Jessica, who was two years older than Cronyn, actually played his daughter! Throughout the 1950s, they built up a sturdy reputation as "America's First Couple of the Theatre." In 1963, Jessica made an isolated film appearance in Alfred Hitchcock's classic The Birds (1963). Low on the pecking order at the time (pun intended), Hitchcock gave Jessica a noticeable secondary role, and Jessica made the most of her brittle scenes as the high-strung, overbearing mother of Rod Taylor, who witnesses horror along the California coast. It was not until the 1980s that Jessica (and Hume, to a lesser degree) experienced a mammoth comeback in Hollywood. Alongside Hume she delighted movie audiences in such enjoyable fare as Honky Tonk Freeway (1981), The World According to Garp (1982), Cocoon (1985) and *Batteries Not Included (1987). In 1989, however, octogenarian Jessica was handed the senior citizen role of a lifetime as the prickly Southern Jewish widow who gradually forms a trusting bond with her black chauffeur in the genteel drama Driving Miss Daisy (1989). Jessica was presented with the Oscar, Golden Globe and British Film Awards, among others, for her exceptional work in the film that also won "Best Picture". Deemed Hollywood royalty now, she was handed the cream of the crop in elderly film parts and went on to win another Oscar nomination for Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) a couple of years later. Jessica also enjoyed some of her biggest stage hits, earning two more Tony Awards for her exceptional work in "The Gin Game" (1977) and "Foxfire" (1982). Both co-starred her husband, Hume, and both were beautifully transferred by the couple to television. Diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 1990, Jessica bravely continued working with Emmy-winning distinction on television. She died of her illness on September 11, 1994. Her last two films, Nobody's Fool (1994) and Camilla (1994), were released posthumously. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Gary Brumburgh / [contact link] Spouse (2) Hume Cronyn (27 September 1942 - 11 September 1994) ( her death) ( 2 children) Jack Hawkins (22 October 1932 - 2 January 1940) ( divorced) ( 1 child) Mother of Susan Hawkins with Jack Hawkins and Tandy Cronyn and Christopher Cronyn with Hume Cronyn. Grandmother of actress Katherine Cronyn. 1990: Chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the world. She won a Tony Award in 1978 for "The Gin Game". She won a Tony Award in 1948 for "A Streetcar Named Desire". Starred (with husband Hume Cronyn) as Liz Marriott on NBC Radio's "The Marriage" (1953-1954). 1989: She became the 12th performer to win the Triple Crown of acting. Oscar: Best Actress, Driving Miss Daisy (1989); Tonys: Best Actress-Play, "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1948) and Best Actress-Play, "The Gin Game" (1978) and Best Actress-Play, "Foxfire" (1983); Emmy: Best Actress-Miniseries/Special, Foxfire (1987). Has won four Tony Awards: in 1948, as Best Actress (Dramatic) for "A Streetcar Named Desire," an award shared with Judith Anderson for "Medea" and Katharine Cornell for "Antony and Cleopatra"; as Best Actress (Play) in 1978 for "The Gin Game" and in 1983 for "Foxfire"; and in 1994 a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement shared with her husband, Hume Cronyn. She also received Tony Award nominations in 1971 as Best Actress (Featured Role - Play) for "Rose" and in 1986 as Best Actress (Play) for "The Petition.".
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1909

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June 7, 1909

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Stoke Newington in Greater London County, England United Kingdom

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Professional Career

Broadway producer Lee Shubert persuaded her to change her name from Jessie to Jessica during her early stage years. 1974: She earned a law degree. 1990: She and husband Hume Cronyn were both awarded the American National Medal of the Arts by the National Endowment of the Arts in Washington D.C. At age 80, she was the oldest winner of a Best Actress Oscar for her role as Daisy Werthan in Driving Miss Daisy (1989). Won a 1993 Special Tony Award (New York City) lifetime achievement award. Was originally cast as Aunt Trina in I Remember Mama (1948) but later dropped out in order to pursue A Woman's Vengeance (1948). As a result Ellen Corby, who went on to receive a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for her performance, was cast instead. Is one of 16 actresses to have won the Triple Crown of Acting (an Oscar, Emmy and Tony); the others in chronological order are Helen Hayes, Ingrid Bergman, Shirley Booth, Liza Minnelli, Rita Moreno, Maureen Stapleton, Audrey Hepburn, Anne Bancroft, Vanessa Redgrave, Maggie Smith, Ellen Burstyn, Helen Mirren, Frances McDormand, Jessica Lange and Viola Davis. Having won Best Actress at age 80, she was the oldest winner of an Academy Award until Christopher Plummer won for Beginners (2010) at age 82. Co-starred with Tippi Hedren in The Birds (1963), and then with Hedren's daughter Melanie Griffith in Nobody's Fool (1994). Has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6284 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California. Became pregnant by her husband, Hume Cronyn, in May 1954 but suffered a miscarriage in June 1954, just a week prior to the premiere of their TV series The Marriage (1954). Shares some similarities with actress Eva Le Gallienne. Both were born in England but made their careers in the U.S., and their first Oscar nomination in the Best Supporting Actress category came at the age of 82. She and husband Hume Cronyn partnered on screen in 13 movies between 1944 and 1994, usually playing a couple: The Seventh Cross (1944), Blonde Fever (1944), The Green Years (1946), The Moon and Sixpence (1959), Honky Tonk Freeway (1981), The World According to Garp (1982), Cocoon (1985), *batteries not included (1987), Foxfire (1987), Cocoon: The Return (1988), The Story Lady (1991), To Dance with the White Dog (1993) and Camilla (1994). Was the 100th actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Actress Oscar for Driving Miss Daisy (1989) at The 62nd Annual Academy Awards (1990) on March 26, 1990. She met Hume Cronyn in 1940, and they married in 1942. Is one of 26 actresses to have won an Academy Award for their performance in a comedy; hers being for Driving Miss Daisy (1989). The others, in chronological order, are: Claudette Colbert (It Happened One Night (1934)), Loretta Young (The Farmer's Daughter (1947)), Josephine Hull (Harvey (1950)), Judy Holliday (Born Yesterday (1950)), Audrey Hepburn (Roman Holiday (1953)), Goldie Hawn (Cactus Flower (1969)), Glenda Jackson (A Touch of Class (1973)), Lee Grant (Shampoo (1975)), Diane Keaton (Annie Hall (1977)), Maggie Smith (California Suite (1978)), Mary Steenburgen (Melvin and Howard (1980)), Jessica Lange (Tootsie (1982)), Anjelica Huston (Prizzi's Honor (1985)), Olympia Dukakis (Moonstruck (1987)), Cher (Moonstruck (1987)), Mercedes Ruehl (The Fisher King (1991)), Dianne Wiest (Bullets Over Broadway (1994)), Mira Sorvino (Mighty Aphrodite (1995)), Frances McDormand (Fargo (1996)), Helen Hunt (As Good as It Gets (1997)), Judi Dench (Shakespeare in Love (1998)), Gwyneth Paltrow (Shakespeare in Love (1998)), Penélope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)), and Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook (2012)). Is one of 15 actresses to have won both the Best Actress Academy Award and the Best Actress in a Comedy/Musical Golden Globe for the same performance, hers being for Driving Miss Daisy (1989). The others, in chronological order, are: Judy Holliday for Born Yesterday (1950), Julie Andrews for Mary Poppins (1964), Barbra Streisand for Funny Girl (1968), Liza Minnelli for Cabaret (1972), Glenda Jackson for A Touch of Class (1973), Diane Keaton for Annie Hall (1977), Sissy Spacek for Coal Miner's Daughter (1980), Cher for Moonstruck (1987), Helen Hunt for As Good as It Gets (1997), Gwyneth Paltrow for Shakespeare in Love (1998), Reese Witherspoon for Walk the Line (2005), Marion Cotillard for La Vie en Rose (2007), Jennifer Lawrence for Silver Linings Playbook (2012), and Emma Stone for La La Land (2016). Is one of 11 actresses who won the Best Actress Oscar for a movie that also won the Best Picture Oscar (she won for Driving Miss Daisy (1989)). The others are Claudette Colbert for It Happened One Night (1934), Luise Rainer for The Great Ziegfeld (1936), Vivien Leigh for Gone with the Wind (1939), Greer Garson for Mrs. Miniver (1942), Louise Fletcher for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Diane Keaton for Annie Hall (1977), Shirley MacLaine for Terms of Endearment (1983), Jodie Foster for The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Gwyneth Paltrow for Shakespeare in Love (1998) and Hilary Swank for Million Dollar Baby (2004). Grandmother of Heather (b. June 12, 1957), Holly (b. March 12, 1959), John (b. April 11, 1961) and Wendy (b. May 10, 1967) via daughter Susan Hawkins and her husband, John Tettemer. She was awarded the 1985 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Distinguished Performance in Leading Role for the play "Foxfire" at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, California. She was awarded the 1978 Antoinette Perry (Tony) Award for Best Actress in a Play for "The Gin Game" on Broadway in New York City. Daughter of Harry (1867-1922), born in Stepney, London, and Jessie (née Horspool) Tandy (1878-1961), born in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. Younger sister of Arthur Harry (1903-1964) and Edward James Tandy (1908-1974). Her mother, Jessie, was raised by her grandparents John (1829-1895) and Martha (née Colborn) Horspool (1830-1892) in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. Personal Quotes (6) [joking reference to her husband, Hume Cronyn] When he's late for dinner, I know he's either having an affair or is lying dead in the street, I always hope it's the street. I must say, if I had known at the beginning of my life that this is where I would get to, I would have said, "Not possible. Not possible." I'm most comfortable on the stage. Because of the nature of film and television, you'll very often do the climactic scene on the first day and the other parts weeks later. It's hard to remember exactly what state you were in. It's easier when you start at the beginning and go through to the end. Any new project, new play, new film, you're really starting from square one every time. You can't be sure enough of yourself to say, "Well, this is just a piece of cake." It's not like that at all -- not for me. Anything in your life that can parallel something in the life of a character that you're playing is of great value because you can really feel all of those things and know what it would be like. [1950] Jack Hawkins is a wonderful actor, but a rotten husband! [About her contract with Fox in the 40s] I think things were much more stereotyped then. You either were a sex symbol, or a beautiful woman, which I wasn't, or you got the dregs of the parts, not the interesting ones. I'd been playing large parts in the theater for a long time, being the whole cheese in a lot of plays, and I wanted to do more in films than I was offered. But Hume was working out there, and so we were living there, and because I like working, I signed the contract.
Personal Life & Family

Actress. She is best remembered for receiving the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in "Driving Miss Daisy' (1989), for which she also won a Golden Globe and British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards. The youngest of three children, her father was a traveling salesman for a rope manufacturer and her mother a headmistress at a school for mentally handicapped children. At the age of 12, her father died and her mother taught evening courses to earn additional income. She received her education at Dame Alice Owen's School in Hertfordshire, England and in 1927 she made her professional debut on the London stage, establishing herself with performances opposite such actors as Laurence Olivier and John Gielgud. In 1932 she married British actor Jack Hawkins. She did some film work in England, but after her marriage failed in 1940, she moved to New York where she met actor Hume Cronyn and they were married two years later. She made her American film debut in "The Seventh Cross" (1944) and also appeared in the films "The Valley of Decision" (1945), "The Green Years" (1946), "Dragonwyck" (1946, with Gene Tierney and Vincent Price), and "Forever Amber" (1947). In 1948 she won a Tony Award for her performance as Blanche Dubois in the original Broadway production of "A Streetcar Named Desire." She then focused her efforts on the stage, and in 1952 she became a naturalized citizen of the US. Over the next three decades, her film career continued sporadically, but included "The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel" (1951), "The Light in the Forest" (1958), and the role of a domineering mother in Alfred Hitchcock's film, "The Birds" (1963). She received a Tony Award for her performance in Broadway's "The Gin Game" (1977). The beginning of the 1980s saw a resurgence in her film career, with character roles in "Honky Tonk Freeway" (1981), "The World According to Garp" (1982), "Best Friends" (1982), "Still of the Night" (1982), and "The Bostonians" (1984). She and Cronyn began working together more regularly on stage and television, including the films "Cocoon" (1985), "Batteries not Included" (1987), and "Cocoon: The Return" (1988), and the Emmy Award winning television film "Foxfire" (1987). However, it was her colorful performance in the film "Driving Miss Daisy" (1989), as the aging, stubborn Southern-Jewish matron, that earned her an Oscar. She gained a Best Supporting Actress nomination for her work in the grassroots movie "Fried Green Tomatoes" (1991) and co-starred in the 1991 television film "The Story Lady", "Used People" (1992), the television film "To Dance with the White Dog" (1993), "Nobody's Fool" (1994), and "Camilla" (1994), which would be her last performance film appearance. During her 67-year career she appeared in 35 movies and 11 Broadway productions. Bio by: William Bjornstad Family Members Spouses Jack Hawkins Jack Hawkins 1910–1973 (m. 1932) Hume Cronyn Hume Cronyn 1911–2003 (m. 1942) Children Susan Tettemer Susan Phyllida Hawkins Tettemer 1934–2004
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September 11, 1994

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ovarian cancer

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Easton, Fairfield County, Connecticut United States
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Jessica Tandy, a Patrician Star Of Theater and Film, Dies at 85 By MARILYN BERGER Jessica Tandy, who enhanced the American theater and enriched the American screen as few actresses have, died yesterday at her home in Easton, Conn. She was 85. The cause was ovarian cancer, said her husband, the actor Hume Cronyn. Miss Tandy triumphed on Broadway in 1947 as Blanche Dubois in Tennessee Williams's "Streetcar Named Desire," and was still a great star more than 40 years later when she played the title character in the 1989 film "Driving Miss Daisy." In the years between, she and Mr. Cronyn, played opposite each other in success after success to become the most illustrious theater couple of their day. With the role of Blanche Dubois, Miss Tandy emerged from a series of minor film roles as a maid for some of Hollywood's leading ladies, to establish herself as one of the leading ladies of the stage. The memory can still bring chills to those who saw her performance, which the New York Times drama critic Brooks Atkinson called "incredibly true." Almost four decades later, another New York Times drama critic, Frank Rich, wrote of her, "Everything this actress does is so pure and right that only poets, not theater critics, should be allowed to write about her." When she was 80 years old, she brought that purity and rightness to her portrayal of an aging and fiercely independent Southern lady in "Driving Miss Daisy." It was a performance that won her critical acclaim from Los Angeles to Berlin and, at last, an Academy Award. When she received the Oscar in March 1990 she was the oldest person ever to win one. She vowed to go on working, although she said she hoped she would know when to stop, "before they have to get the hook." The Academy Award came one year after she won an Emmy for her performance in the television adaptation of "Foxfire," of which her husband was was a co-writer. Even after she became seriously ill she continued to work, completing three films and two television dramas. A Phenomenal Record Of Joint Triumphs When Miss Tandy and Mr. Cronyn first appeared together, in "The Fourposter" in 1951, audiences found a husband-and-wife team that would come to succeed Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne as the foremost couple of the American theater. One triumph followed another, culminating in "The Gin Game" in 1977 and "Foxfire" in 1982. By 1986, when they appeared in "The Petition," Mr. Rich was writing of "their legendary theatrical relationship" and of a Cronyn-Tandy moment as "an acting phenomenon now unique in the Broadway theater and possibly never to come its way again." Mel Gussow, another drama critic for The Times, called them "two actors at their summit." He wrote that when the Cronyns acted together, it was "a matter of hearts, minds and bodies in creative harmony." One of their last projects together was "To Dance With the White Dog," a television movie that had its premiere last year. At last night's Emmy Awards in Pasadena, Calif., Mr. Cronyn was named best actor in a mini-series or special for his performance as a recently widowed man mourning his wife. Miss Tandy was nominated for best actress but did not win. A clip from the movie was shown during the awards ceremony in a brief tribute to her. When they took "The Gin Game" to Moscow in 1979, they won the accolade that Mr. Cronyn treasures above all others. Oleg N. Yefremov, the director of the renowned Moscow Art Theater, wrote in his review, "It takes a couple of actors from America to remind us what Stanislavsky was talking about." Miss Tandy was nominated five times for a Tony and won three: in 1948 for her role as Blanche Dubois, for "The Gin Game" in 1978, and for "Foxfire" in 1983. Mr. Cronyn was also nominated for "The Gin Game" but did not win. "I was bitterly disappointed," Miss Tandy said. "His performance is part of mine. I think he's very proud when I win, and vice versa." In July 1994 they were honored with a special Tony for their life's work in the theater. They had already received the Kennedy Center Lifetime Achievement medal, in December 1986, and the National Medal of Art, from President Bush in 1990. Directors Adored Her Good Nature Miss Tandy acted in more than 100 stage productions during her 67-year career, which began in England and encompassed the West End in London as well as the British provinces, Broadway, and the regional theaters that were once so important to the American stage. She appeared in more than 25 movies and played the leading role in a number of television programs, developing from a diffident neophyte into an actress sure of her craft, a star adored by directors for her serenity. There was no temperament; there were no tantrums. Elia Kazan, her director in "Streetcar" said: "She's absolutely sweet-natured. She does her job; she has a sense of humor." With each performance her reviews got better. "I think I've gotten better," she said when she was 77. "I've gotten more confident in myself in the last five to six years. Earlier I think I distrusted myself. I'd be in things I felt weren't being done right and I didn't speak up. Now I do. I think people trust me." Miss Tandy, who became an American citizen in 1954, was born in London on June 7, 1909. Her father died when she was 12 and her mother took clerical and teaching jobs at night to supplement her regular income as headmistress of a school for r******* children. She and her two older brothers were read to a lot, Miss Tandy recalled in 1986: "good stuff, poetry." "I had an appreciation of the words. We were also taken to theater. I sat in a lot of galleries. It was a magical time, but toward the end I would get fidgety and nervous. I never wanted it to end." She also grew to love Shakespeare, one of the few in her class who did. "Almost everyone would say, 'Oh, God, it's Shakespeare this afternoon.' To me it was heaven." Her brothers would stage family theatricals in their five-room flat in northeast London, but she said she did not show any promise. "I was a graceless lump," she recalled. "My brothers would always say, 'Oh, Mummy, do we really have to have her in it?' " Nevertheless, her love of the theater led her to the Ben Greet Academy of Acting where, in 1924, she began three years of dramatic training. She was 18 when she made her professional debut in a small back-room theater in Soho in "The Manderson Girls." The salary was & #163;2 a week, out of which she somehow had to pay for the five elegant costumes her part required. She managed by sewing them herself. A Dedicated Life in the Public Eye During a 67-year acting career in Britain and the United States, Jessica Tandy appeared in more than 100 plays, more than 25 movies and numerous television shows. Here is a sampling. THEATER Hamlet (1934) King Lear (1940) Portrait of a Madonna (1946) A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) The Fourposter (1951) Five Finger Exercise (1959) The Gin Game (1977) The Glass Menagerie (1983) The Petition (1986) FILM The Seventh Cross (1944) Forever Amber (1947) September Affair (1950) The Desert Fox (1951) The Light in the Forest (1958) The Birds (1963) Butley (1974) Still of the Night (1982) The World According to Garp (1982) The Bostonians (1984) Cocoon (1985) Driving Miss Daisy (1989) Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) TELEVISION Foxfire (1987) The Story Lady (1991) To Dance With the White Dog (1993)

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I stopped to talk to her and she asked me if I would walk to the theater with her! She was troubled. I told her I wanted to make dressing room stars for her and Hume Cronyn, and she brightened and said would I just give them name plates instead. "How about a tiny star to the left of the names?" And she laughed and agreed to my compromise. Her husband had been mugged. Her daughter harped on the fact she was named Tandy Cronyn and couldn't avoid being asked about her parents. I met Tandy at a horse show when we were teenagers and Jessica said she remembered meeting me then. I said, "Whenever she complains just make sympathetic Jewish sounds." And she laughed and hugged me. Jessica Tandy was so lovable and talented and beautiful. Tandy Cronyn . . . eh, not so much.

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