Cheryl Crawford

American actress and theater producer

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Born:: Sept. 24, 1902, Akron, Ohio, U.S.

Died:: Oct. 7, 1986, New York, N.Y. (aged 84)

Founder:: Group Theatre; The Actors Studio

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Cheryl Crawford (born Sept. 24, 1902, Akron, Ohio, U.S.—died Oct. 7, 1986, New York, N.Y.) was an American actress and theatre producer. She acted with the Theatre Guild from 1923 and became its casting manager (1928–30). She helped found the Group Theatre in 1931. A cofounder of the Actors Studio in 1947, she went on to serve as its executive producer. Her notable Broadway productions included Brigadoon (1947) and Tennessee Williams’s The Rose Tattoo (1951) and Sweet Bird of Youth (1959).

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