Kathryn Kidder
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Kathryn Kidder (Mrs. L. K. Anspacher) (1868 – September 7, 1939) was an American actress, born at Newark, N. J. She studied dramatic art in New York, London, and Paris, made her début as an actress in Chicago in 1886, and later appeared in Davy Crockett, Nordeck, and Little Lord Fauntleroy.
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Born | 1868 Newark, New Jersey |
Died | September 7, 1939 New York City, New York |
Other name(s) | Mrs. L. K. Anspacher |
Occupation | Stage actress |
After 1894 she starred continuously in old English comedies, in Shakespearean tragedies, and in French dramas. Her earliest success was in Sardou's Madame Sans-Géne, of which she obtained exclusive performing rights in the United States and Canada, in any language except French. She also played in Molly Pitcher (1902); Salammbô (1904); The Embarrassment of Riches (1906); A Woman of Impulse (1909); The Glass House (1911); The Washerwoman Duchess (1912), a version of Madame Sans-Géne.
This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.