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Anna Chandler (July 4, 1884 – July 10, 1957) was an American vaudeville actress and mezzo-soprano singer of popular and light classical songs.[1]

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Anna Chandler
Chandler in 1919.
Born	July 4, 1884 New Cumberland, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died	July 10, 1957(1957-07-10) (aged 73) El Sereno, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Spouse(s)	Jack Curtis (1900-?) (Divorced)
Children	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.

Filmography

• The Big Broadcast (1932)
• Madame Racketeer (1932)
• Gold Rush Maisie (1940)
• Redhead (1941)
• Tennessee Johnson (1942)
• Thumbs Up (1943)
• Master Minds (1949)

Partial discography

COLUMBIA A1950 (78) She’s Good Enough to Be Your Baby’s Mother (and She’s Good Enough to Vote With You) [5]

COLUMBIA A1956 (78) You Can't Get Along With 'Em or without 'Em (recorded January 20, 1916)[6]

EDISON 51193-R (78) My Sweetie Went Away (He Didn't Say Where, When or Why)

Sheet music

(With her picture on cover)

• (Yr Unk) – Hello Wisconsin (Won't You Find My Yonnie Yonson
• 1915 – America I Love You
• 1916 – Rolling Stones (All Come Rolling Home Again) - Words by Edgar Leslie ; Music by Archie Gottler
• 1917 – Yankee Doodle Learns Parlez Vous Francais
• 1917 – You've Certainly Opened My Eyes
• 1917 – Never Was A Lass Like You
• 1917 – ... Somewhere In France
• 1920 – Feather Your Nest
• 1921 – Scandinavia
• 1922 – I've Got The Love-Sick Blues, Jack Mills, Inc., publisher
• 1922 – Lost (A Wonderful Girl)
• 1922 – Lovin Sam (The Sheik of Alabam)
• 1923 – Annabelle

References

Inline citations

General references

• Biography Index. A cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines. Volume 6: September 1961 – August 1964, New York: H.W. Wilson Co. (1965)
• Who Was Who on Screen, First edition, by Evelyn Mack Truitt, New York: R.R. Bowker (1974) (OCLC 841749)
• Who Was Who on Screen, Second edition, by Evelyn Mack Truitt, New York: R.R. Bowker (1977) (LCCN 77-22651)
• Who Was Who on Screen, Third edition, by Evelyn Mack Truitt, New York: R.R. Bowker (1983) (OCLC 239770441)
• Who's Who in Hollywood, 1900-1976, by David Ragan. New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House Publishers (1976), The Late Players (1900-1974) section begins on page 539 (OCLC 2373022)
• Who's Who in Hollywood, The largest cast of international film personalities ever assembled, Two volumes, by David Ragan, New York: Facts on File (1992) (LCCN 90-2980)

External links

• Anna Chandler at the Internet Broadway Database
• Anna Chandler at IMDb
• Anna Chandler cylinder recordings, from the UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive at the University of California, Santa Barbara Library.

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