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Up for sale "By Your Leave" Glenn Anders Hand Written Note on Fans 4.5Xy Letterhead.
his work on the stage. Glenn Anders was born in Los Angeles, California, the
son of a Swedish immigrant father. He attended the Wallace dramatic school in
California, and began his career performing in vaudeville on the Orpheum circuit. He arrived in New York City in
1919 and attended Columbia University from 1919 until 1921. He
made his Broadway debut in 1919 in Just Around the Corner. In 1921,
he scored the male lead in The
Demi-Virgin, a farce that was controversial, but a hit at the
box office. Anders had a distinguished career on Broadway, appearing plays: Hell Bent for Heaven (1924),
written by Hatcher
Hughes; They Knew What They Wanted (1924)
by Sidney Howard; and Strange
Interlude (1928) by Eugene
O'Neill. He made a handful of film and TV appearances, most
famously as a scheming lawyer in Orson Welles' The Lady from Shanghai (1947).
Other film roles included M (1951),
a remake of Fritz Lang's 1931 classic.
On October 26, 1981, Anders died aged 92 in Englewood, New Jersey, at
the Actors' Fund Home.