Cheryl Crawford Biography

Cheryl Crawford, Actress
Occup.Actress
FromUSA
BornSeptember 24, 1902
Akron, Ohio
DiedOctober 7, 1986
Aged84 years
Cheryl Crawford was an Tony Prize-winning theater supervisor, movie theater producer and actress.

Cheryl took significant in dramatization at Smith College. After she was finished Crawford moved to New York and enlisted himself at the Theatre Guild. After playing in the two cinema pieces Juarez as well as Maximilian (1926) and The Brothers Karamazov (1927), ended her acting profession.

In 1931, Crawford was one of the founders of Group Theatere, Harold Clurman, together with Lee Strasberg started as a supervisor. Her third effort, Men in White (1933), came to be the team's first success and won the Pulitzer Prize for drama. Having actually directed 2 productions for, she determined to begin as a theater producer and withdrew from the Group Theatre. In her memoir she created: "I felt happy as well as energetic, also premium, to be by themselves. I was mosting likely to complete great things and offer the target market well-known theater as well as top quality entertainment. "The initial big success was her Golden Boy in 1937.

Crawford was prominent in the earlier jobs of actors like Helen Hayes, Bojangles Robinson, Mary Martin, Ethel Barrymore, Ingrid Bergman, Tallulah Bankhead and also Paul Robeson. In 1946 she started the American Repertory Theatre along with Eva Le Gallienne. In 1947 she started the Actors Studio in New York, in addition to Elia Kazan and Robert Lewis, which, to name a few, Marlon Brando, James Dean, Jerome Robbins, Shelley Winters, Jane Fonda as well as Bea Arthur studied. In 1949 began the Lee Strasberg, her former partner from the Group Theatre, his long occupation at the Actors Studio.

Our collection contains 2 quotes who is written / told by Cheryl.

Related authors: Paul Robeson (Actor), Elia Kazan (Director), Shelley Winters (Actress), Bea Arthur (Actress), Lee Strasberg (Director), Marlon Brando (Actor), Ethel Barrymore (Actress), Jane Fonda (Actress), Tallulah Bankhead (Actress), Lawrence Taylor (Athlete)

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2 Famous quotes by Cheryl Crawford

Small: My major task was to keep us solvent
"My major task was to keep us solvent"
Small: Lees great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management
"Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management"