Amanda Duff
{{short description|American actress}}
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| name = Amanda Duff
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| birth_date = March 6, 1914
| birth_place = Fresno, California, United States
| death_date = {{death date and age|2006|4|6|1914|3|6}}
| death_place = San Francisco, California
United States
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| occupation = Actress
| spouse = Philip Dunne (1939-1992, his death)
| children = 3 daughters
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Amanda Duff (March 6, 1914 - April 6, 2006) was an American actress on stage and in films.
Biography
Duff was born in Fresno, California, on March 6, 1914,{{cite web |title=Amanda Duff |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/amanda-duff-38612 |website=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |access-date=July 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210421105001/https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/amanda-duff-38612 |archive-date=April 21, 2021 |url-status=live}} and grew up in Santa Barbara, California. She went on to study music at Mills College and later to study piano in New York City.
=Early years=
She was discovered by the playwright Robert E. Sherwood who cast her in a Broadway production of Tovarich (1936). She played Helene DuPont, a daughter of a rich family.{{cite news|last1=Corby|first1=Jane|title='Almost 21,' She Believes in Luck|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/11766986/the_brooklyn_daily_eagle/|work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle|date=June 4, 1937|location=New York, Brooklyn|page=8|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = June 18, 2017}} {{Open access}}
Duff's films included The Devil Commands (1941) and Mr. Moto in Danger Island (1939).{{cite book|last1=Jones|first1=Stephen|title=The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 18|date=2011|publisher=Little, Brown Book Group|isbn=9781780332772|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FVHBBAAAQBAJ&dq=%22Amanda+Duff%22+actress&pg=PT472|accessdate=18 June 2017|language=en}}
In 1939, she married screenwriter and film director Philip Dunne.{{cite book|last1=McGilligan|first1=Patrick|title=Backstory: Interviews with Screenwriters of Hollywood's Golden Age|date=1986|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=9780520056893|page=152|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sWewbX79ISsC&dq=%22Amanda+Duff%22+actress&pg=PA152|accessdate=18 June 2017|language=en}} They had three daughters.
=Later life=
After Duff retired from acting, she took up photography. Her work was recognized when the presentation "Glimpses of the USA" at the American National Exhibition in Moscow in 1959 include some of her photographs of American children.
On April 6, 2006, Duff died of cancer in San Francisco, California, at age 92. She was survived by three daughters, a brother, and two grandchildren.{{cite news|last1=McLellan|first1=Dennis|title=Amanda Duff Dunne, 92; Former Actress Whose Malibu Home Was Hollywood Salon|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-21-me-dunne21-story.html|access-date=18 June 2017|work=Los Angeles Times|date=April 21, 2006|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170618194546/http://articles.latimes.com/2006/apr/21/local/me-dunne21|archive-date=18 June 2017}}
Filmography
- Just Around the Corner (1938)
- Mr. Moto on Danger Island (1938)
- The Three Musketeers (1939, uncredited)
- Hotel for Women (1939)
- The Escape (1939)
- City of Chance (1940)
- Star Dust (1940, uncredited)
- The Devil Commands (1941)
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0240358}}
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Category:American film actresses
Category:American stage actresses
Category:Actresses from Fresno, California
Category:20th-century American actresses
Category:21st-century American women
Category:Broadway theatre people
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