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{{short description|American actor (1897–1975)}}{{for|the Australian soldier|Frederick Hamilton March}}{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2022}}

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| birth_place = Racine, Wisconsin, U.S.1975148mf=y}}| death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.| occupation = ActorDemocratic Party (United States)>Democratic| years active = 1921–1973

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• {{marriage|Florence Eldridge|1927}}

}}| children = 2}}Fredric March (born Ernest Frederick McIntyre Bickel; August 31, 1897 РApril 14, 1975) was an American actor, regarded as one of Hollywood's most celebrated stars of the 1930s and 1940s.WEB,weblink Fredric March, Turner Classic Movies, Obituary Variety, April 16, 1975, page 95. As a performer he was known for his versatility. He received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and two Tony Awards as well as nominations for three BAFTA Awards and three Emmy Awards.March began his career in 1920, by working as an extra in movies filmed in New York City. He made his stage debut on Broadway in 1926 at the age of 29, and by the end of the decade, he signed a film contract with Paramount Pictures. He made seven pictures in 1929. He went on to receivetwo Academy Awards, for his performances in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) and The Best Years of Our Lives (1947). His other Oscar-nominated performances were in the films The Royal Family of Broadway (1930), A Star is Born (1937), and Death of a Salesman (1951). March gained popularity after establishing himself with leading man roles in films such as Honor Among Lovers (1931), Merrily We Go to Hell (1932), Design for Living (1933), Death Takes a Holiday, The Barretts of Wimpole Street (both 1934), Les Mis̩rables, Anna Karenina, The Dark Angel (all 1935), Nothing Sacred (1937), and I Married a Witch (1942). His later film roles include Executive Suite, The Bridges at Toko-Ri (both 1954), The Desperate Hours (1955), Inherit the Wind (1960), and Seven Days in May (1964). He made his final film appearance in The Iceman Cometh (1973).March was also known for his stage roles; he made his Broadway debut in the play The Melody Man (1926), and during his stage career he twice won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play, for his performances in the Ruth Gordon play Years Ago (1947) and in Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night (1956). He and Helen Hayes are the only actors to have won both the Academy Award and the Tony Award twice.

Early life

March was born in Racine, Wisconsin, the son of Cora Brown Marcher (1863–1936), a schoolteacher from England,Archived at Ghostarchive{{cbignore}} and the weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20140304223000weblink">Wayback Machine{{cbignore}}: EPISODE, Guests: Jill & Dickie Kolmar; Fredric March,weblink What's My Line?, March 21, 1954, 15:00, CBS, YouTube, March 5, 2019, {{cbignore}} and John F. Bickel (1859–1941), a devout Presbyterian Church elder who worked in the wholesale hardware business.BOOK, 359–363,weblink The Player A Profile Of An Art, Ross, Lillian, Ross, Helen, September 22, 1961, Simon and Schuster, New York, Internet Archive, March attended the Winslow Elementary School (established in 1855), Racine High School, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison,{{citation needed|date=April 2013}} where he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi."Alpha Delts Accept Colby College Charter". The Bangor Daily News. February 23, 1961. p. 19. Retrieved July 18, 2022.March served in the United States Army during World War I as an artillery lieutenant.He began a career as a banker, but an emergency appendectomy caused him to re-evaluate his life and, in 1920, he began working as an "extra" in movies made in New York City, using a shortened form of his mother's maiden name. He appeared on Broadway in 1926, and by the end of the decade, he signed a film contract with Paramount Pictures.ENCYCLOPEDIA,weblink August 27, 2018,weblink March 10, 2018, Fredric March, american actor, Encyclopædia Britannica,

Career

{{more citations needed|date=April 2013}}{{box quote|width=30em|bgcolor=cornsilk|fontsize=100%|salign=left|quote="March's special ability was to suggest genuine mental pain. As a portrayer of tortured and distressed men, he has no equal. The complete physical control which allows him convincingly to sag, stoop and collapse is assisted by a face suggesting at the same time both intelligence and sensitivity"—Australian-born film historian John Baxter.Baxter, 1970 p. 176}}Like Laurence Olivier, March had a rare protean quality to his acting that allowed him to assume almost any persona convincingly, from Robert Browning to William Jennings Bryan to Dr Jekyll - or Mr. Hyde. He received an Oscar nomination for the 4th Academy Awards in 1930 for The Royal Family of Broadway, in which he played a role modeled on John Barrymore. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the 5th Academy Awards in 1932 for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (tied with Wallace Beery for The Champ, although March accrued one more vote than BeeryBOOK, Tranberg, Charles, Fredric March: A Consummate Actor, BearManor Media, Duncan, OK, 2013, 978-1593937454, ). This led to roles in a series of classic films based on stage hits and classic novels like Design for Living (1933) with Gary Cooper and Miriam Hopkins; Death Takes a Holiday (1934); Les Misérables (1935) with Charles Laughton; Anna Karenina (1935) with Greta Garbo; Anthony Adverse (1936) with Olivia de Havilland; and as the original Norman Maine in A Star is Born (1937) with Janet Gaynor, for which he received his third Academy Award nomination.File:The Road to Glory (1936) 1.jpg|left|thumb|Warner Baxter, June Lang, and March in The Road to Glory (1936)]]File:FredricMarchinAStarIsBorn1937.jpg|thumb|right|March with Janet GaynorJanet GaynorFile:1940, Fredric March as Jean Lafitte on original program for movie The Buccaneer.jpg|thumb|1940, Fredric March as Jean Lafitte on original program for movie The Buccaneer, playing in a local cinema in Prilep, Macedonia (Kingdom of YugoslaviaKingdom of YugoslaviaMarch resisted signing long-term contracts with the studios,WEB, Fredric March: A Consummate Actor – An Interview with author Charles Tranberg,weblink Let's Misbehave: A Tribute to Precode Hollywood, Blogspot.com.au, enabling him to play roles in films from a variety of studios. He returned to Broadway after a ten-year absence in 1937 with a notable flop, Yr. Obedient Husband, but after the success of Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth, he focused as much on Broadway as on Hollywood. He won two Best Actor Tony Awards: in 1947 for the play Years Ago, written by Ruth Gordon, and in 1957 for his performance as James Tyrone in the original Broadway production of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night. He also had major successes in A Bell for Adano in 1944 and Gideon in 1961, and he played in Ibsen's An Enemy of the People on Broadway in 1951. During this period, he also starred in films, including I Married a Witch (1942) and Another Part of the Forest (1948). March won his second Oscar in 1946 for The Best Years of Our Lives.March also branched out into television, winning Emmy nominations for his third attempt at The Royal Family for the series The Best of Broadway as well as for television performances as Samuel Dodsworth and Ebenezer Scrooge. On March 25, 1954, March co-hosted the 26th Annual Academy Awards ceremony from New York City, with co-host Donald O'Connor in Los Angeles.File:Best Years of Our Lives.jpg|thumb|right|Hoagy Carmichael, March, Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews and Teresa Wright in The Best Years of Our LivesThe Best Years of Our LivesMarch's neighbor in Connecticut, playwright Arthur Miller, was thought to favor March to inaugurate the part of Willy Loman in the Pulitzer Prize–winning Death of a Salesman (1949). However, March read the play and turned down the role, whereupon director Elia Kazan cast Lee J. Cobb as Willy and Arthur Kennedy as one of Willy's sons, Biff Loman. Cobb and Kennedy were two actors with whom the director had worked in the film Boomerang (1947). March later regretted turning down the role and finally played Willy Loman in Columbia Pictures's 1951 film version of the play, directed by Laslo Benedek. March earned his fifth and final Oscar nomination as well as a Golden Globe Award. He also played one of two leads in The Desperate Hours (1955) with Humphrey Bogart. Bogart and Spencer Tracy had both insisted upon top billing, and Tracy withdrew, leaving the part available for March.In 1957, March was awarded the George Eastman Award, given by George Eastman House for "distinguished contribution to the art of film".WEB, Awards granted by George Eastman House International Museum of Photography & Film,weblink George Eastman House, April 25, 2013, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20120415183637weblink">weblink April 15, 2012, File:Inherit the wind trailer (6) Spencer Tracy Fredric March.jpg|thumb|left|Henry Drummond (Tracy, left) and Matthew Harrison Brady (March, right) in Inherit the Wind. Previously, March had taken the role in The Desperate Hours originally offered to Tracy. Both men had also played Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde.]]On February 12, 1959, March appeared before a joint session of the 86th United States Congress, reading the Gettysburg Address as part of a commemoration of the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth.NEWS, Nation Honor Lincoln On Sesquicentennial,weblink February 11, 1959, The Journal News, Yonkers Herald-Statesman, Associated Press, April 25, 2013, Congress gets into the act tomorrow, when a joint session will be held. Carl Sandburg, famed Lincoln biographer, will give and address, and actor Fredric March will read the Gettysburg Address., dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20131101065149weblink">weblink November 1, 2013, March co-starred with Spencer Tracy in the 1960 Stanley Kramer film Inherit the Wind, in which he played a dramatized version of famous orator and political figure William Jennings Bryan. March's Bible-thumping character provided a rival for Tracy's Clarence Darrow-inspired character. In the 1960s, March's film career continued with a performance as President Jordan Lyman in the political thriller Seven Days in May (1964) in which he co-starred with Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, and Edmond O'Brien; the part earned March a Golden Globe nomination as Best Actor.March made several spoken word recordings, including a version of Oscar Wilde's The Selfish Giant issued in 1945 in which he narrated and played the title role, and The Sounds of History, a twelve volume LP set accompanying the twelve volume set of books The Life History of the United States, published by Time-Life. The recordings were narrated by Charles Collingwood, with March and his wife Florence Eldridge performing dramatic readings from historical documents and literature.Following surgery for prostate cancer in 1970, it seemed his career was over; yet, he managed to give one last performance in The Iceman Cometh (1973) as the complicated Irish saloon keeper, Harry Hope.

Marriage and public activities

(File:Fredric March in Best Years of Our Lives trailer.jpg|thumb|March in 1946)

March was married to actress Florence Eldridge from 1927 until his death in 1975, and they had two adopted children. They appeared in seven films together, the last being Inherit the Wind.NEWS, Pryor, Thomas M.,weblink Film Reviews: Inherit the Wind, Variety, 6, July 6, 1960, December 4, 2020, Internet Archive, March and Eldridge commissioned Wallace Neff to build their house in Ridgeview Drive, Bel Air, in 1934. It has subsequently been owned by the philanthropist Wallis Annenberg and the actors Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston.NEWS,weblink Hedge Funder Slashes Price of Showbiz Pedigreed Estate by $4.5 Million, October 22, 2019, Variety (magazine), Variety, April 12, 2021,weblink October 23, 2019, dead, Throughout his life, March and Eldridge were supporters of the Democratic Party. In July 1936, March co-founded the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League (HANL),WEB,weblink Hollywood Fights Back - In Our Own Backyard: Resisting Nazi Propaganda in Southern California 1933-1945, digital-library.csun.edu, en, May 31, 2018,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20180601085029weblink">weblink June 1, 2018, dead, along with the writers Dorothy ParkerNEWS,weblink Dorothy Parker Goes to Hollywood, Longworth, Karina, February 26, 2016, Slate (magazine), Slate, May 31, 2018, en-US, 1091-2339, and Donald Ogden Stewart, the director Fritz Lang, and the composer Oscar Hammerstein.In 1938, March was one of many Hollywood personalities who were investigated by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) and the hunt for Communists in the film community. In July 1940, he was among a number of individuals who were questioned by a HUAC subcommittee which was led by Representative Martin Dies Jr.WEB,weblink HUAC Goes to Hollywood, Part 1: The Forgotten Investigation of 1940, Cold War & Internal Security (CWIS) Collection: East Carolina University, en-US, December 7, 2017, May 31, 2018, Later, in 1948, he and his wife sued the anti-communist publication Counterattack for defamation, seeking $250,000 in damages.BOOK, David, Everitt, A Shadow of Red: Communism and the Blacklist in Radio and Television, Ivan R. Dee,weblink 30 (1948), 85 (1950), 2007 isbn = 9781683931133, The suit was settled out of court.BOOK, Ken, Cuthbertson, A Complex Fate: William L. Shirer and the American Century, McGill-Queen's Press,weblink May 1, 2015 isbn = 9780773597242, March died of prostate cancer in Los Angeles on April 14, 1975, at the age of 77. He was buried at his estate in New Milford, Connecticut.{{Citation needed |date=June 2021}}

Legacy

Modern assessment

March is regarded as one of the most eminent Hollywood actors of the 1930s and 1940s. Critic and Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz opined that "two actors from Hollywood’s golden age really stand in a tier above the rest ... Spencer Tracy and Fredric March".NEWS, Brookins, Laurie, August 28, 2022, Supporters Attempt to Redeem Legacy of Hollywood Legend Fredric March, Canceled Over Racism Allegations: 'This Was a Rush to Judgment',weblink January 15, 2024, The Hollywood Reporter, Boston Globe writer Joan Wickersham described March as a Hollywood great who "rejected the Hollywood studio system" and "built a brilliant stage and film career" despite lacking the "instant name recognition" of contemporaries like Humphrey Bogart and Cary Grant.NEWS, Wickersham, Joan, July 27, 2023, Fredric March — Hollywood's great chameleon,weblink January 15, 2024, The Boston Globe, March is also remembered for his later character roles such as those in Inherit the Wind, Seven Days in May, and The Iceman Cometh, roles he played during what was considered a downturn in his film career at the time.WEB, November 30, 2023, Fredric March,weblink January 15, 2024, Encyclopædia Britannica,

Controversy

March was briefly a member of an interfraternity society composed of leading students formed at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1919 and 1920 named the Ku Klux Klan which is not believed to have been affiliated with the notorious organization of that name.JOURNAL,weblink Ask Flamingle, July 5, 2008, Wisconsin Alumni Association, NEWS, McWhorter, John,weblink The University of Wisconsin Smears a Once-Treasured Alum, The New York Times, September 17, 2021, March 29, 2022, In actuality, March was an outspoken proponent of the civil rights movement for five decades, and worked closely with the NAACP.WEB,weblink Hollywood Monuments to John Wayne, D.W. Griffith and More Are Under Fire: A Status Report, December 18, 2020, The Hollywood Reporter, February 22, 2021, WEB, Gonis, George,weblink A Star Is Shorn: Thanks to Woefully Underinformed Campus Activists, Acting Legend, Badger Alum, and Civil Rights Champion Fredric March Is Suddenly "Off Wisconsin", November 25, 2020, Bright Lights Film Journal, February 22, 2021, When the collegiate organization was named, the (later national) KKK was a small regional organization. As the national KKK became better known, the collegiate organization changed its name in 1922.False rumors based on a misunderstanding of the organization of which March was a member were spread on social media and alleged that March was a white supremacist. The 500-seat theater at the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh was formerly named after March.WEB,weblink UW Oshkosh: Theatre Facilities, August 2, 2010,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20100619123303weblink">weblink June 19, 2010, dead, University of Wisconsin—Oshkosh, The University of Wisconsin–Madison had named the 168-seat at the Memorial Union as the Fredric March Play Circle Theater; however, in 2018, his name was removed, after student protests following reports of March's membership in a student fraternal organization calling itself Ku Klux Klan.WEB,weblink Wisconsin Union Theater, Wisconsin Union, March 5, 2019, July 4, 2015,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20150704113356weblink">weblink dead, NEWS, Widell, Sydney,weblink Union to cover KKK fraternity members' names on gallery, play circle, The Daily Cardinal, May 3, 2018, March 5, 2019, PRESS RELEASE, Doug, Erickson,weblink UW–Madison releases report on student organizations that took name of KKK in 1920s, University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 19, 2018, JOURNAL,weblink 1924 Badger, July 5, 2008, Wisconsin Alumni Association, UW–Oshkosh pulled March's name from what is now the Theatre Arts Center shortly before the 2020–21 academic term.NEWS,weblink UW-Oshkosh renames theatre building after troubling discovery, Ordonez, Brenda, August 18, 2020, WFRV-TV, August 18, 2020, After new revelations about the nature of the KKK fraternity, as of autumn 2022, there were discussions for a return of March's name.WEB,weblink UW alum and Oscar winner Fredric March's name was removed from a campus theater in 2018. Calls for its return are getting louder,

Filmography

Film {| class"wikitable" style"font-size: 90%;"

! colspan="5" style="background: LightSteelBlue;" | Films! Year !! Title !! Role !! Notes 1921|The Education of Elizabeth|Extra|Uncredited Lost filmThe Great Adventure (1921 film)>The Great Adventure|Extra|UncreditedThe Devil (1921 film)>The Devil|Extra|UncreditedPaying the Piper (film)>Paying the Piper|Extra|Uncredited Lost film1929The Dummy (1929 film)>The Dummy|Trumbull Meredith|The Wild Party (1929 film)>The Wild Party|James 'Gil' Gilmore||The Studio Murder Mystery|Richard Hardell||Paris Bound|Jim Hutton|Jealousy (1929 film)>Jealousy|Pierre|Lost film|Footlights and Fools|Gregory Pyne|Lost film; the soundtrack survives|The Marriage Playground|Martin Boyne|1930|Sarah and Son|Howard Vanning||Paramount on Parade|Doughboy|Cameo|Ladies Love Brutes|Dwight Howell||True to the Navy|Bull's Eye McCoy|Manslaughter (1930 film)>Manslaughter|Dan O'Bannon|Laughter (1930 film)>Laughter|Paul Lockridge||The Royal Family of Broadway|Tony Cavendish|1931|Honor Among Lovers|Jerry Stafford||The Night Angel|Rudek Berken||My Sin|Dick Grady|Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931 film)>Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde>Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr Edward Hyde|1932|Strangers in Love|Buddy Drake / Arthur Drake||Merrily We Go to Hell|Jerry Corbett||Make Me a Star|Himself|Behind-the-scenes drama, UncreditedSmilin' Through (1932 film)>Smilin' Through|Kenneth Wayne|The Sign of the Cross (1932 film)>The Sign of the Cross|Marcus Superbus||Hollywood on Parade No. A-1|Himself|short film1933|Tonight Is Ours|Sabien Pastal|The Eagle and the Hawk (1933 film)>The Eagle and the Hawk|Jerry H. Young|Design for Living (film)>Design for Living|Thomas B. 'Tom' Chambers|1934All of Me (1934 film)>All of Me|Don Ellis||Good Dame|Mace Townsley||Death Takes a HolidayDeath (personification)>Death||The Affairs of Cellini|Benvenuto Cellini|The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934 film)>The Barretts of Wimpole Street|Robert Browning||We Live Again|Prince Dmitri Nekhlyudov||Hollywood on Parade No. B-6|Himself|short film1935Les Misérables (1935 film)>Les Misérables|Jean Valjean / Champmathieu|Anna Karenina (1935 film)>Anna Karenina|Count Vronsky|The Dark Angel (1935 film)>The Dark Angel|Alan Trent||Screen Snapshots Series 14, No. 11|Himself|short film1936The Road to Glory (1936 film)>The Road to Glory|Lieutenant Michel Denet|Mary of Scotland (film)>Mary of ScotlandJames Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell>Bothwell||Anthony Adverse|Anthony Adverse||Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 3|Himself|short film1937A Star Is Born (1937 film)>A Star Is Born|Norman Maine|Nothing Sacred (film)>Nothing Sacred|Wallace 'Wally' Cook||Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 5|Himself|short film1938The Buccaneer (1938 film)>The Buccaneer|Jean Lafitte|There Goes My Heart (film)>There Goes My Heart|Bill Spencer|Trade Winds (1938 film)>Trade Winds|Sam Wye||1939|The 400 Million|Narrator|Documentary1940|Susan and God|Barrie Trexel|Victory (1940 film)>Victory|Hendrik Heyst||Lights Out in Europe|Narrator|Documentary1941|So Ends Our Night|Josef Steiner||One Foot in Heaven|William Spence|Bedtime Story (1941 film)>Bedtime Story|Lucius 'Luke' Drake1942|I Married a Witch|Jonathan Wooley / Nathaniel Wooley / Samuel Wooley||Lake Carrier|Narrator|Documentary short1944|Valley of the Tennessee|Narrator|The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944 film)>The Adventures of Mark TwainMark Twain>Samuel Langhorne Clemens||Tomorrow, the World!|Mike Frame||1946|The Best Years of Our Lives|Al Stephenson|1948Another Part of the Forest (film)>Another Part of the Forest|Marcus Hubbard||An Act of Murder|Judge Calvin Cooke||1949Christopher Columbus (1949 film)>Christopher Columbus|Christopher Columbus||1950|(The Titan: Story of Michelangelo)|Narrator|Documentary1951|It's a Big Country|Joe Esposito|Death of a Salesman (1951 film)>Death of a Salesman|Willy Loman|| 1953|Man on a Tightrope|Karel Cernik|1954|The Bridges at Toko-Ri|Rear Admiral George Tarrant||Executive Suite|Loren Phineas Shaw||1955The Desperate Hours (1955 film)>The Desperate Hours|Dan C. Hilliard|1956Alexander the Great (1956 film)>Alexander the Great|Philip II of Macedon||The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit|Ralph Hopkins||Island of Allah|Narrator|| 1957Albert Schweitzer (film)>Albert Schweitzer|Narrator|Documentary|1959|Middle of the Night|Jerry Kingsley||1960Inherit the Wind (1960 film)>Inherit the WindWilliam Jennings Bryan#In popular culture>Matthew Harrison Brady||1961The Young Doctors (film)>The Young Doctors|Dr. Joseph Pearson||1962The Condemned of Altona (film)>The Condemned of Altona|Albrecht von Gerlach|1964|Seven Days in May|President Jordan Lyman||Pieta|Narrator|Documentary|1967Hombre (film)>Hombre|Dr. Alex Favor||1970Tick, Tick, Tick (film)>...tick...tick...tick...|Mayor Jeff Parks||1973The Iceman Cometh (1973 film)>The Iceman Cometh|Harry Hope|

Television {| class"wikitable" style"font-size: 90%;"

! colspan="5" style="background: LightSteelBlue;" | Television! Year !! Title !! Role !! Notes | 1949Ford Theatre>The Ford Theatre Hour|Oscar Jaffe|Episode: "The Twentieth Century"| 1950|The Nash Airflyte Theater||Episode: "The Boor"| 1951|Lux Video Theatre||Episode: "The Speech"1952|Lux Video Theatre|Captain Matt|Episode: "Ferry Crisis at Friday Point"The Ed Sullivan Show>Toast of the Town|Himself|later known as The Ed Sullivan Show1953Omnibus (U.S. TV series)>Omnibus|Don Juan|Episode: "The Last Night of Don Juan"1954|The Best of Broadway|Tony Cavendish|Episode: "The Royal Family" based on March's Broadway play and film of the same name|Shower of Stars|Ebenezer Scrooge|Episode: "A Christmas Carol"|What's My Line?|Himself|1956|Producers' Showcase|Sam Dodsworth|Episode: "Dodsworth"|Shower of Stars|Eugene Tesh|Episode: "The Flattering World"|1957The Ed Sullivan Show>Toast of the Town|Himself|later known as The Ed Sullivan Show1958|The DuPont Show of the Month|Arthur Winslow|Episode: "The Winslow Boy"|Tales from Dickens|Host| March hosted seven episodes during 1958 and 1959Episodes: "Bardell Versus Pickwick" "Uriah Heep" "A Christmas Carol" "David and Betsy Trotwood" "David and His Mother" "Christmas at Dingley Dell" "The Runaways"|1963|A Tribute to John F. Kennedy from the Arts|Host|Television special |1964|The Presidency: A Splendid Mystery|Narrator|Television

Theatre {| class"wikitable" style"font-size: 90%;"

! colspan="5" style="background: LightSteelBlue;" | Theatre ! Year !! Title !! Role !! Playwright !! Venue The Melody Man >| Central Theatre, Broadway Puppets >American Airlines Theatre>Selwyn Theatre, BroadwayThe Half-Caste >Nederlander Theatre>National Theatre, Broadway Devil in the Cheese >Tom Cushing >| Charles Hopkins Theatre, Broadway Your Obedient Husband >Horace Jackson >| Broadhurst Theatre, BroadwayThe American Way (play)>The American Way Martin Gunther George S. Kaufman / Moss Hart Center Theatre, BroadwayHope for a Harvest >Sophie Treadwell >| Guild Theatre, Broadway The Skin of Our Teeth >Thorton Wilder >Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre>Plymouth Theatre, BroadwayA Bell for Adano >Paul Osborn >| Cort Theatre, BroadwayYears Ago >Ruth Gordon >Lena Horne Theatre>Mansfield Theatre, Broadway Now Lay Me Down To Sleep >Elaine Ryan >Broadhurst Theatre, BroadwayAn Enemy of the People >| Henrik Ibsen The Autumn Garden >Lillian Hellman >Eugene O'Neill Theatre>Coronet Theatre, BroadwayLong Day's Journey into Night >Eugene O'Neill >| Helen Hayes Theatre, BroadwayGideon (play)>Gideon Angel Paddy Chayefsky Plymouth Theatre, Broadway

Awards and nominations

March has a star for motion pictures on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 1620 Vine Street.WEB,weblink Fredric March, Hollywood Walk of Fame, December 1, 2016, {| class="wikitable unsortable" align="center"! Award! Year! Category! Work! ResultAcademy Awards4th Academy Awards>1931Best Actor|The Royal Family of Broadway|{{nom}}5th Academy Awards>1932Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931 film)>Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde|{{won}}10th Academy Awards>1938A Star Is Born (1937 film)>A Star Is Born|{{nom}}19th Academy Awards>1947|The Best Years of Our Lives|{{won}}24th Academy Awards>1952Death of a Salesman|{{nom}}BAFTA Awards6th British Academy Film Awards> 1952Best Foreign Actor|{{nom}}8th British Academy Film Awards>1955|Executive Suite|{{nom}}14th British Academy Film Awards>1961Inherit the Wind (1960 film)>Inherit the Wind|{{nom}}Golden Globe Awards9th Golden Globe Awards>1952Best Actor – Motion Picture DramaDeath of a Salesman (1951 film)>Death of a Salesman|{{won}}17th Golden Globe Awards>1960|Middle of the Night|{{nom}}22nd Golden Globe Awards>1965|Seven Days in May|{{nom}}Primetime Emmy Awards 1955Best Single Performance by an Actor| The Best of Broadway (for episode "The Royal Family")|{{nom}}|Shower of Stars (for episode "A Christmas Carol")|{{nom}}9th Primetime Emmy Awards>1957|Producers' Showcase (for episode "Dodsworth")|{{nom}}Tony Awards1st Tony Awards> 1947Best Actor in a Play|Years Ago|{{won}}11th Tony Awards>1957| Long Day's Journey into Night|{{won}}16th Tony Awards>1962Gideon (play)>Gideon|{{nom}}Venice Film Festival Awards1st Venice International Film Festival> 1932Volpi Cup for Best Actor>Best ActorDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931 film)>Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde|{{won}}13th Venice International Film Festival> 1952|Volpi Cup for Best ActorDeath of a Salesman (1951 film)>Death of a Salesman|{{won}}15th Venice International Film Festival>1954|Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Acting|Executive Suite|{{won}} (shared with the principal cast)|Berlin Film Festival Awards10th Berlin International Film Festival>1960| Silver Bear for Best ActorInherit the Wind (1960 film)>Inherit the Wind|{{won}}|David di Donatello Awards|1964David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actor>Best Foreign Actor|Seven Days in May|{{won}}|New York Film Critics Circle Awards|1946New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor>Best Actor|The Best Years of Our Lives|{{nom}}|Laurel Awards|1967|Top Male Supporting PerformanceHombre (film)>Hombre|{{nom}}

Radio appearances{| class"wikitable"

! Year !! Program !! Episode/sourceLux Radio Theatre >One Foot in HeavenTHOSE WERE THE DAYS DATE=SPRING 2017 ISSUE=2, 33, Academy Award (radio)>Academy Award ''A Star Is Born (1937 film)''THOSE WERE THE DAYS DATE=SUMMER 2015 ISSUE=3, 32–39, The MGM Theater of the Air >| CitadelThe United States Steel Hour#Theatre Guild on the Air>Theatre Guild on the Air Cass TimberlaneKIRBY> FIRST1=WALTER URL=HTTPS://WWW.NEWSPAPERS.COM/CLIP/2660609/THE_DECATUR_DAILY_REVIEW/ DATE=FEBRUARY 15, 1953 VIA=NEWSPAPERS.COM, June 21, 2015, {{Open access}} Star Playhouse A Bell for AdanoKIRBY> FIRST1=WALTER URL=HTTPS://WWW.NEWSPAPERS.COM/CLIP/2759320/THE_DECATUR_DAILY_REVIEW/ DATE=OCTOBER 11, 1953 VIA=NEWSPAPERS.COM, July 6, 2015, {{Open access}}There Shall Be No NightKIRBY TITLE=BETTER RADIO PROGRAMS FOR THE WEEK NEWSPAPER=THE DECATUR DAILY REVIEW PAGE=50 ACCESS-DATE=JULY 14, 2015, {{Open access}}

Biographies

• Fredric March: Craftsman First, Star Second by Deborah C. Peterson (1996),BOOK, Peterson, Deborah C., Fredric March: Craftsman First, Star Second, 1996, Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut, 978-0313298028,
• Fredric March: A Consummate Actor (2013) by Charles Tranberg.

See also

• List of actors with two or more Academy Awards in acting categories

Footnotes

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References

• Baxter, John. 1970. Hollywood in the Thirties. International Film Guide Series. Paperback Library, New York. LOC Card Number 68-24003.

External links

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• {{IMDb name|0545298}}
• {{IBDB name|68224}}
• Photographs of Fredric March

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