Entertainment & Arts
Fast Fame: Who was Jessica Tandy’s first husband?
June 6, 2011
Ovations, please, for Robert Fryer, Betty Garrett, Gregory Harrison, the James Irvine Foundation, C.
Jan. 3, 1991
Obituaries
Jessica Tandy, the versatile dramatic actress who electrified Broadway audiences as the original Blanche DuBois in Tennessee Williams’ classic “A Streetcar Named Desire,” and went on to wider fame decades later as the Oscar-winning heroine of the film “Driving Miss Daisy,” died Sunday.
Sept. 12, 1994
Television
In her career, actress Jessica Tandy has won three Tony Awards for her roles on Broadway.
Dec. 13, 1987
Actress Jessica Tandy will remain in Good Samaritan Hospital at least through Friday following her collapse on stage during a performance of “Foxfire,” a spokeswoman for the hospital said today.
Dec. 11, 1985
Actress Jessica Tandy collapsed on stage during the first act of a performance of the play “Foxfire” at the Ahmanson Theater.
Actor Hume Cronyn is the first to say that “there are very, very few occasions” when he overrules his actress-wife, Jessica Tandy.
Dec. 12, 1985
Movies
You Say Tomato: Two best-actress Oscar winners, Kathy Bates and Jessica Tandy, will team to star in a film.
April 29, 1991
Jessica Tandy was standing in the middle of the living room of a spacious artist’s loft in downtown Los Angeles, waiting to shoot her next scene in “The Story Lady.”
Dec. 8, 1991
If they ever get this time travel thing down and we could attend three performances, here’s what I’d see: Richard Burbage’s Hamlet, Barbra Streisand’s Fanny Brice and Jessica Tandy’s Blanche DuBois, the last of which made the actress a star in this country and, later, a legend.