About Anne Rivers Siddons
Anne Rivers Siddons (1936–2019) wrote nineteen novels, including several New York Times bestsellers, as well as a work of nonficton and two movie scripts. Her novels received praise from Stephen King and Pat Conroy. Her debut novel, Heartbreak Hotel, was made into a major motion picture in 1989 titled Heart of Dixie. Her novel The House Next Door was made into a made-for-television movie that aired in 2006 on Lifetime Television.
About the Narrators
Hume Cronyn (1911–2003) was born in Ontario, and was the son of an Ontario politician. Cronyn made it to Broadway in 1934 in the production Three Men on a Horse. That was his first of several collaborations with director George Abbott. He then went on to make his film debut in Alfred Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt. In 1942 he married actress Jessica Tandy, who he co-starred with in the film The Green Years, among many others.
Jessica
Tandy (1909–1994)
was a British-born stage and film actress who spent most of her
sixty-seven-year career in the United States. She acted in more than 100 stage
productions and had more than sixty film and TV roles. She had many roles on
Broadway, from 1930 through 1986, and her stage presence continued to grow while
enacting a succession of Shakespeare’s premiere ladies, until her stellar
performance as Blanche DuBois in Tennessee Williams’ masterpiece A Streetcar Named Desire. She won a total
of seven Tony and Drama Desk Awards. Her film career began in 1932, and she had
a role in Alfred Hitchcock’s famous The
Birds. She is now well known for her late-career film roles in Fried Green Tomatoes and Driving Miss Daisy, for which she won an
Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. She was awarded a star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame.