Quick Facts
Biography
Anna Chandler (July 4, 1884 – July 10, 1957) was an American vaudeville actress and mezzo soprano singer of popular and light classical songs.
She was born in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania. On November 13, 1900, Chandler married Jack Curtis, whose birth name was Jacob Zinn, in Manhattan, New York. Curtis was a booker for Keith Albee, and later, a theatrical agent. They had one child, Beatrice Curtis, who became an actress and whose first husband was the vaudevillian actor Harry Fox of the dance the foxtrot.
Chandler was a headline artist for the Orpheum Circuit. She sang songs in Hebrew and Italian almost exclusively during her career as a headliner on the Orpheum Circuit.
Anna Chandler died at age 73 in El Sereno, California.
Filmography
- The Big Broadcast (1932)
- Madame Racketeer (1932)
- Gold Rush Maisie (1940)
- Redhead (1941)
- Tennessee Johnson (1942)
- Thumbs Up (1943)
- Master Minds (1949)
Partial discography
COLUMBIA A1956 (78) You Can't Get Along With 'Em or without 'Em (recorded January 20, 1916)
EDISON 51193-R (78) My Sweetie Went Away (He Didn't Say Where, When or Why)
Sheet Music
(With her picture on cover)
- (Yr Unk) – Hello Wisconsin (Won't You Find My Yonnie Yonson
- 1915 – America I Love You
- 1917 – Yankee Doodle Learns Parlez Vous Francais
- 1917 – You've Certainly Opened My Eyes
- 1917 – Never Was A Lass Like You
- 1917 – ... Somewhere In France
- 1920 – Feather Your Nest
- 1921 – Scandinavia
- 1922 – I've Got The Love-Sick Blues, Jack Mills, Inc., publisher
- 1922 – Lost (A Wonderful Girl)
- 1922 – Lovin Sam (The Sheik of Alabam)
- 1923 – Annabelle