Jessie Royce Landis
Jessie Medbury
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Emerging from a Chicago musical family, she earned a scholarship at fourteen that sent her to the Hinshaw Dramatic School and soon after to the Evanston Stock Company, launching a lifelong devotion to the stage. After directing and starring with the North Shore Players, she toured with The Highwayman in 1924 and debuted on Broadway in The Honor of the Family (1926), later closing her stage career…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
