An American actress, born in Manhattan, New York City, on October 27, 1918. She won an Academy Award in 1943 for the movie Mrs. Miniver (1942). She also received two stars on the Walk of Fame in 1960 for her work in film and TV. She got married to writer, actor, and producer...Read more Niven Busch (1942-1952) and had two children with him before their divorce, then she got married to writer and actor Robert Anderson (1959-1978) and they got divorced. She was born in the Negro neighborhood of Harlem in New York. She studied at Rose Haven School and then at Columbia High School in New Jersey, and practiced acting in the school theater, and trained in the summer at Wharf Theater in Massachusetts. She then moved to New York to work in its theaters, and signed a contract with MGM, and her first three films were nominated for an Academy Award. She shone on the cinema screens during the forties, and during the fifties, and in the golden age of television. Among her most important works are: Shadow of a Doubt (1943), The Best Years of our Lives (1946), and Guiding Light (1952). She died on March 6, 2005, in New Haven, Connecticut, USA, of a heart attack.
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An American actress, born in Manhattan, New York City, on October 27, 1918. She won an Academy Award in 1943 for the movie Mrs. Miniver (1942). She also received two stars on the...Read more Walk of Fame in 1960 for her work in film and TV. She got married to writer, actor, and producer Niven Busch (1942-1952) and had two children with him before their divorce, then she got married to writer and actor Robert Anderson (1959-1978) and they got divorced. She was born in the Negro neighborhood of Harlem in New York. She studied at Rose Haven School and then at Columbia High School in New Jersey, and practiced acting in the school theater, and trained in the summer at Wharf Theater in Massachusetts. She then moved to New York to work in its theaters, and signed a contract with MGM, and her first three films were nominated for an Academy Award. She shone on the cinema screens during the forties, and during the fifties, and in the golden age of television. Among her most important works are: Shadow of a Doubt (1943), The Best Years of our Lives (1946), and Guiding Light (1952). She died on March 6, 2005, in New Haven, Connecticut, USA, of a heart attack.