Florence Eldridge
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Florence Eldridge (September 5, 1901 - August 1, 1988) was an American actress.
Born Florence McKechnie in Brooklyn, New York, Eldridge was a supporting actress in films who also achieved a long career in the theatre.
Among Eldridge's films were The Divorcee (1930), Thirteen Women (1932), Les Misérables (1935), Mary of Scotland (1936), Another Part of the Forest (1948), and Inherit the Wind (1960). Her Broadway theatre credits included The Cat and the Canary, Six Characters in Search of an Author, An Enemy of the People, and Long Day's Journey Into Night, which earned her a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play.
Eldridge was married to actor Fredric March, with whom she often appeared both in films and in stageplays, from 1927 until his death in 1975. They originated the roles of Mr. and Mrs. Antrobus in the Thornton Wilder play The Skin of Our Teeth in 1942.
Eldridge died from a heart attack in an emergency room in Long Beach, California at the age of 86.
