Anna Minot(1918-2007)
- Actress
Anna Minot's first stage role was as a chickadee in a elementary school
play. By the time she graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Vassar College in
1939, she had acted in community theatre and in summer stock. She went
on from there to a long and distinguished career on the stage, with
occasional film and television work. She was in the first production of
Eugene O'Neill's "The Iceman Cometh", where she understudied and later
succeeded Jeanne Cagney; she also worked with Frederic March and
Florence Eldridge. A longtime resident of Greenwich Village, for a time
Miss Minot was the stage manager of the Pearl Theatre where she also
acted in a myriad of productions over the years.
