{{short description|American actress and singer}} {{More citations needed|date=August 2010}} {{Infobox person |name= Anna Chandler |image= Anna Chandler - Oct 1919 Tatler.jpg |image_size= |caption= Chandler in 1919. |birth_name= |birth_date= July 4, 1884 |birth_place= New Cumberland, Pennsylvania, U.S. |death_date= {{Death date and age|1957|07|10|1884|07|04}} |death_place= El Sereno, California, U.S. |occupation= Actress |years_active= |spouse= Jack Curtis (1900-?) (Divorced) |children= 1 }} '''Anna Chandler''' (July 4, 1884 – July 10, 1957) was an American vaudeville actress and mezzo-soprano singer of popular and light classical songs.<ref>Nick Tosches (1949- ), ''Where Dead Voices Gather'', pg. 61, Little, Brown & Company {{ISBN|978-0-316-89507-1}} (2001) ({{OCLC|45757846}})</ref>
She was born in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania.{{Citation needed |date=February 2022}} Chandler married Jack Curtis, a booking agent. They had one child, Beatrice Curtis, who became an actress and whose first husband was the vaudevillian actor Harry Fox.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kear |first1=Lynn |last2=King |first2=James |title=Evelyn Brent: The Life and Films of Hollywood's Lady Crook |date=2009 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-5468-6 |page=92 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P_ODoCwz2EsC&dq=%22Anna+Chandler%22+actress&pg=PA92 |access-date=February 19, 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
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.<ref>''Old-Time Vaudeville Stars in Mme Racketeer'', Springfield Republican, (Massachusetts), p. 5C, col. 8, July 17, 1932</ref> On Broadway, Chandler portrayed Mrs. Anastasia Kidd in ''Jumping Jupiter'' (1911) and Bessie Bloom in ''Mendel, Inc.'' (1929).<ref>{{cite web |title=Anna Chandler |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/anna-chandler-35017 |website=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |access-date=December 10, 2020 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20201210173852/https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/anna-chandler-35017 |archive-date=December 10, 2020}}</ref>
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== Blue Amberol 2040 ''Come Back, I’m Pining For You'' (1913)
COLUMBIA A1950 (78) ''She’s Good Enough to Be Your Baby’s Mother (and She’s Good Enough to Vote With You)'' <ref>{{Cite web|title=ARSC Top Ten Nominees|url=https://www.archeophone.com/arsc-top-ten-nominees/|access-date=2022-02-23|website=Archeophone Records|language=en-US}}</ref>
COLUMBIA A1956 (78) ''You Can't Get Along With 'Em or without 'Em'' (recorded January 20, 1916)<ref>Abrams, Steven and Settlemier, Tyrone. [http://www.78discography.com/COLA1500.htm "The Online Discographical Project - Columbia A1500 series"]. Retrieved August 3, 2010</ref>
EDISON 51193-R (78) ''My Sweetie Went Away (He Didn't Say Where, When or Why)''
==Sheet music== thumb|220px|right|''I've Got The Love-Sick Blues'' (With her picture on cover) *(Yr Unk) – ''Hello Wisconsin (Won't You Find My Yonnie Yonson'' *1915 – ''America I Love You'' *1916 – ''Rolling Stones (All Come Rolling Home Again)'' - Words by Edgar Leslie; Music by Archie Gottler *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''
==References== '''Inline citations''' {{reflist}}
'''General references''' * ''Biography Index. A cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines. Volume 6: September 1961 – August 1964,'' New York: H.W. Wilson Co. (1965) * ''Who Was Who on Screen, First edition,'' by Evelyn Mack Truitt, New York: R.R. Bowker (1974) ({{OCLC|841749}}) * ''Who Was Who on Screen, Second edition,'' by Evelyn Mack Truitt, New York: R.R. Bowker (1977) ({{LCCN|77022651}}) * ''Who Was Who on Screen, Third edition,'' by Evelyn Mack Truitt, New York: R.R. Bowker (1983) ({{OCLC|239770441}}) * ''Who's Who in Hollywood, 1900-1976,'' by David Ragan. New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House Publishers (1976), The ''Late Players (1900-1974)'' section begins on page 539 ({{OCLC|2373022}}) * ''Who's Who in Hollywood, The largest cast of international film personalities ever assembled,'' Two volumes, by David Ragan, New York: Facts on File (1992) ({{LCCN|90002980}})
==External links== {{Commons category|Anna Chandler}} * {{IBDB name}} * {{IMDb name|0151317}} *[http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/search.php?query_type=keyword&query=anna+chandler&nq=1 Anna Chandler cylinder recordings], from the UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive at the University of California, Santa Barbara Library. {{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Chandler, Anna}} Category:1884 births Category:1957 deaths Category:American stage actresses Category:American film actresses Category:American mezzo-sopranos Category:20th-century American actresses Category:20th-century American women singers Category:20th-century American singers Category:Columbia Records artists