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- As a testament to her remarkable talent, Broadway honored esteemed Australian stage actress Zoe Caldwell four times with Tony Awards: for "Slapstick Tragedy" (1966), for her title role in "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" (1968), for her searing title performance as "Medea" (1982), and as opera diva Maria Callas in "Master Class" (1995). The classical stage legend's fervent dedication to the theatre, however, came at the expense of filmgoers everywhere as she made only three rather insignificant movies during her lifetime.
Zoe Ada Caldwell was born in Hawthorn, Australia, on September 14, 1933, and began her professional career at the tender age of 9 in a production of"Peter Pan." Finding radio work in her teens, her parents provided her with the necessary foundation with lessons in dance, elocution and music. She left school at age 15 and began an early career teaching speech and performing on a children's radio program.
Attending the Methodist Ladies College in Melbourne, she was one of the original members of Melbourne's Union Theatre Repertory Company (1953) and with the Elizabeth Theatre Trust (1954-1957). Years of repertory work followed in which she built up quite a formidable resume. Appearing for two seasons with the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre Company in productions of "Pericles" and "Much Ado About Nothing." She also toured Russia with the latter company in "Hamlet," "Twelfth Night" and "Romeo and Juliet."
For the next few years she built up her classical resume as Biance in "Othello," "Helena in "All's Well That Ends Well," a Fairy in "A Midsummer Night's Dream," Cordelia in "King Lear," Rosaline in "Love's Labour's Lost," Ismene in "Antigone," Pegeen in "Playboy of the Western World" and the title role in "Saint Joan."
In America, Zoe helped launch Minneapolis' Tyrone Guthrie Theatre in 1963, with roles in "The Miser" and "The Three Sisters." Elsewhere she appeared as the title role of "Mother Courage," as well as "The Mad Woman of Chaillot," "The Way of the World" and "The Caucasian Chalk Circle," ". Broadway finally opened its curtains for her in 1965 when she briefly replaced Anne Bancroft in "The Devils." She continued her round of Broadway standing ovations with extraordinary performances as Eve in "The Creation of the World and Other Business" (1972: produced by the renown Robert Whitehead, her husband from 1968 on), "Dance of Death" (1974) and as Lillian Hellman in "Lillian" (1986), in addition to her Tony-winning perfs.
As a now-prestigious stage director, she helmed or assisted in productions of "An Almost Perfect Person" (1977, her debut), "Othello" (1982) starring James Earl Jones, Christopher Plummer, "Macbeth" (1988) starring Plummer and Glenda Jackson and "Park Your Car in Harvard Yard" (1991) starring Judith Ivey and Jason Robards. She also directed Eileen Atkins and Vanessa Redgrave in the 1994 off-Broadway romantic drama "Vita and Virginia."
To the dismay of film-winning audiences, Ms. Caldwell avoided the silver screen almost completely. She appeared briefly as the Countess in the Woody Allen romantic comedy The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), a featured role (Mrs. Hill) in the fantasy mystery Birth (2004) starring Nicole Kidman, and her final role as the Grandmother in the Tom Hanks/Sandra Bullock adventure drama Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011).
Television appearances would also be comparatively few but she did display from time to time her classical brilliance in such roles ask the Fairy in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1959); Lady Macbeth in Macbeth (1961) opposite Sean Connery; legendary actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell in Dear Liar (1964); another early legendary actress Sarah Bernhardt in Great Performances (1971) and Catherine the Great in Witness to Yesterday (1973). More notably, she recreated her Tony-winning role of Medea (1983)
She and producer/husband Whitehead maintained a long and successful private and professional partnership. The couple had two children: William "Sam" and Charles, the latter taking the role of producer of "The Play What I Wrote" which briefly featured his mother in New York in 2003. Suffering from Parkinson's disease, the 80-year-old actress died of complications on February 16, 2020. - Animation Department
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Jack Zander was born on 3 May 1908 in Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA. He was a director and writer, known for Gnomes (1980), The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie (1972) and Saturday Night Live (1975). He was married to Beth Wasem. He died on 17 December 2007 in Pound Ridge, New York, USA.- Additional Crew
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Robert Whitehead was born on 3 March 1916 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. He was a producer, known for Summertime (1955), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) and The Fugitive Kind (1960). He was married to Zoe Caldwell and Virginia Rose Bolen. He died on 15 June 2002 in Pound Ridge, New York, USA.- Somar Alberg was born on 15 January 1908 in Montreal, Canada. He was an actor, known for Shadow of the Cloak (1951), Rocky King, Detective (1950) and Suspense (1949). He was married to Mildred Freed Alberg. He died on 31 May 1977 in Pound Ridge, New York, USA.
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Ross Lowell was born on 10 July 1926 in New York, New York, USA. He was a cinematographer and director, known for Oh Brother, My Brother (1979), The Balloon Tree (1970) and Popi (1969). He was married to Marilyn Shapiro, Anita Kregal and Carol Lowell. He died on 10 January 2019 in Pound Ridge, New York, USA.- William Rubin was born on 11 August 1927 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was married to Phyllis Hattis. He died on 22 January 2006 in Pound Ridge, New York, USA.
- Cohn started Screen Gems as a subsidiary to Columbia Pictures and served as it's general manager. He was responsible for starting the The Ford Television Theatre (1952) on television and in 1952 was named vice president and general manager of Screen Gems, becoming president in 1958. Columbia Pictures' willingness to enter television production flew in the face of then-prevailing industry mentality, but Screen Gems would prove to be an extremely lucrative business for the company well into the 1970's. Cohn's body lies at Mt. Carmel cemetery in Queens.
- Everett Clark was born on 21 August 1893 in Quincy, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for Service with a Smile (1937), Zula Hula (1937) and A Song a Day (1936). He was married to Lillian Tisch. He died on 12 November 1985 in Pound Ridge, New York, USA.