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6 unusual facts about Fredric March


José Quintero

Later that year, Quintero's production of the New York premiere of Long Day's Journey into Night established his reputation as the quintessential director of O'Neill's dramas and won Tony Awards for Best Play and Best Actor (Fredric March).

Skip Homeier

He played the troubled youngster in the 1944 film adaptation and received good reviews playing opposite Fredric March and Betty Field as his American uncle and aunt.

Susan and God

She is estranged from her intelligent and sensitive husband, Barrie (Fredric March) -- who has been driven to drink by his wife's insensitivity -- and she has neglected her introverted and maladjusted daughter, Blossom (Rita Quigley).

The Barretts of Wimpole Street

It was filmed in 1934, starring Fredric March, Norma Shearer and Charles Laughton.

The Royal Family of Broadway

Fredric March had first played the role of Tony Cavendish in the Los Angeles stage production.

The Sounds of History

Side 1 of the LP would always be devoted to brief summaries of historical events, interspersed with dramatic readings by actors Fredric March and Florence Eldridge of historical documents and literary works relevant to whatever was being discussed.


Children's music

Many of the biggest names in theater, radio, and motion pictures were featured on these albums, such as: Bing Crosby, Harold Peary ("The Great Gildersleeve"), Orson Welles, Jeanette MacDonald, Roy Rogers, Fanny Brice, William Boyd ("Hopalong Cassidy"), Ingrid Bergman, Danny Kaye, and Fredric March.

Henry Davis Sleeper

Isabella Stewart Gardner commissined work from him; Henry Francis du Pont engaged his assistance with the big new wing of the family's massive Delaware house, Winterthur, now a famed museum of American decorative arts; he designed for Hollywood stars Joan Crawford and Fredric March.

Jack Mulhall

Reputedly, he was one of a number of male models -- Fredric March, Reed Howes, and J. C. Leyendecker's partner Charles Beach (1886–1952) were others—for the Arrow Collar Man in the Arrow collar ads illustrated by Leyendecker for the Cluett Peabody shirt company.

June Lang

She soon graduated to leading roles, most notably in Bonnie Scotland (with Laurel and Hardy, 1935), in The Road to Glory (with Fredric March, Warner Baxter and Lionel Barrymore—written in part by William Faulkner—1936), and in Wee Willie Winkie (directed by John Ford, with Shirley Temple, Cesar Romero, and Victor McLaglen, 1937).

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

The novel was made into a movie in 1956, starring Gregory Peck and Jennifer Jones as Tom and Betsy Rath, with Fredric March, Lee J. Cobb, Keenan Wynn and Marisa Pavan in supporting roles.

The Road to Glory

The Road to Glory is a 1936 dramatic film depiction of World War I trench warfare in France directed by Howard Hawks, starring Fredric March, Warner Baxter, Lionel Barrymore and June Lang, and produced by Twentieth Century Fox.


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