Eldridge, Florence

The Oxford Companion to American Theatre | 2004 | 562 words | Copyright

Eldridge, Florence [née Florence McKechnie] (1901–88), actress. The Brooklyn‐born leading lady made her professional debut in the chorus of a 1918 musical but first won major attention when she portrayed the terrified heroine Annabelle West in The Cat and the Canary (1922) and the Step‐daughter in Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922). In 1927 she married Fredric March and subsequently played opposite him in many shows, most notably The Skin of Our Teeth (1942), Years Ago (1946), and Long Day's Journey into Night (1956).

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