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Anna Chandler | |
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Born | July 4, 1884 |
Died | July 10, 1957 El Sereno, California, U.S. | (aged 73)
Occupation | Actress |
Spouse | Jack Curtis (1900-?) (Divorced) |
Children | 1 |
Anna Chandler (July 4, 1884 – July 10, 1957) was an American vaudeville actress and mezzo-soprano singer of popular and light classical songs.[1]
She was born in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania.[citation needed] Chandler married Jack Curtis, a booking agent. They had one child, Beatrice Curtis, who became an actress and whose first husband was the vaudevillian actor Harry Fox.[2]
Chandler was a headline artist for the Orpheum Circuit. She sang songs in Hebrew and Italian almost exclusively during her career as a headliner on the Orpheum Circuit.[3] On Broadway, Chandler portrayed Mrs. Anastasia Kidd in Jumping Jupiter (1911) and Bessie Bloom in Mendel, Inc. (1929).[4]
Chandler died at age 73 in El Sereno, California.