{{Short description|American actress}} '''Andree Wallace''' is an American actress who has performed on radio, television, and stage.<ref name="tvrm" />
==Early years== Wallace was born in Brooklyn "into an extraordinarily large family" of Scottish ancestry via both her Campbell mother and her Wallace father.<ref name="bg">{{cite news |title=Andree Wallace, Heroine of Irish Play, 'Kathleen', Real Scottish Lassie |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111069650/andree-wallace/ |access-date=October 10, 2022 |work=The Boston Globe |date=January 4, 1948 |page=30-A|via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> Her father had been a shopkeeper in Scotland, and he became a gardener in a cemetery in Brooklyn. Her mother operated a rooming house in East Flatbush.<ref name="tvrm" /> She graduated from Girls' Commercial High School<ref name="bde">{{cite news |title=Well, Well, Well, Brooklyn Scottish Lass Turns Irish |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111011676/andree-wallace/ |access-date=October 9, 2022 |work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle |date=February 1, 1948 |page=29}}</ref> in Brooklyn, where she took a dramatics class.<ref>{{cite news |title=It's Fun to Study Acting at Girls Commercial |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111070195/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle/ |access-date=October 10, 2022 |work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle |date=March 19, 1946 |page=9|via = Newspapers.com}}</ref>
== Career == Wallace first worked professionally in radio when she was 17 years old, obtaining a role on ''The Little Blue Playhouse'' for $10 per episode.<ref name="tvrm" /> By 1948, she had acted on radio and on stage in summer stock productions, in Blackfriar's productions, and in productions of the Equity Library Theatre<ref name="bde" /> On February 3, 1948, she debuted in the title role of Michael Sayers's ''Kathleen'' at the Mansfield Theatre on Broadway.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Calta |first1=Louis |title=Sayers' 'Kathleen' to Arrive Tonight: First Play by Irish Author and Critic Has Andree Wallace in Lead at Mansfield |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1948/02/03/archives/sayers-kathleen-to-arrive-tonight-first-play-by-irish-author-and.html |access-date=October 9, 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=February 3, 1948 |page=31|url-access=subscription}}</ref>
Wallace's roles on radio included Marty Lambert on ''Brave Tomorrow'',<ref name="cd">{{cite news |title='They Tell Me' |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111257494/the-cincinnati-enquirer/ |access-date=October 13, 2022 |work=The Cincinnati Enquirer |date=March 27, 1944 |page=19|via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> Cynthia on ''The Romance of Helen Trent''<ref>{{cite news |title=Howdy Doody Shows [sic] Notes Anniversary |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111113186/reno-gazette-journal/ |access-date=October 11, 2022 |work=Reno Gazette-Journal |date=November 1, 1957 |page=28|via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> and Jane on ''Miss Hattie''.<ref>{{cite news |title=Winsome |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111070795/andree-wallace/ |access-date=October 10, 2022 |work=The Jackson Sun |date=October 22, 1944 |page=22|via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> She was a featured member of the stock company of ''Radio Reader's Digest''.<ref name="in">{{cite news |last1=Travis |first1=Norman |title=Radio Fanfare |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111111755/the-indianapolis-news/ |access-date=October 11, 2022 |work=The Indianapolis News |date=November 17, 1943 |page=25|via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> Other radio programs on which she was heard included ''Famous Jury Trials'', ''Light of the World'', ''My True Story'', and ''Young Widder Brown''.<ref>{{cite news |title=Miss Wallace Plays 'Jane' On 'Miss Hattie' Program |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111256252/andree-wallace/ |access-date=October 13, 2022 |work=The Jackson Sun |date=December 31, 1944 |page=25|via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> She also acted on ''Kraft Television Theatre''.<ref name="tvrm" />
==Personal life== Wallace married film publicist Guy Biondi, whom she met when she was studying drama and he was stage manager when her class presented a demonstration. They have two children.<ref name=tvrm>{{cite magazine |last=Keene |first=Harold |date= |pages=48, 97–98 |title=Happy To Be Home |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Radio-Mirror/54/Mirror-1954-08.pdf#page=48 |magazine=TV Radio Mirror |access-date=October 11, 2022}}</ref>
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