Fredric March was a popular actor on stage and screen in the 1930's and 1940's. He started his career on the stage and was spotted playing in the stage version of The Royal Family Of Broadway. He was signed up by Paramount and then made the film version which gained him a Best Actor Oscar nomination. The followng year he won the Best Actor Oscar for Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. He then stared in Cecil B DeMille's The Sign of the Cross. Then in Ernst Lubitsch's adaptation of Design For Living. He played Robert Browning in The Barretts Of Wimpole Street. He then appeared in an adaptation of Anna Karenina opposite Greta Garbo and an adaptation of Les Miserables. Mary of Sctoland opposite Katharine Hepburn was another historical epic. His performance in the first film version of A Star Is Born gained him another Best Actor Oscar nomination. Nothing Sacred was a screwball comedy. I Married a Witch was a popular romantic comedy. The Best Years Of Our Lives, from William Wyler, was life after World War 2 and his performance won him the Best Actor Oscar. He then returned to historical charcters with Christopher Columbus. His performance in the adaptation of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman gained him another Best Actor Oscar nomination. The Bridges At Toko-Ri is a film set in the Korean war. The Desperate Hours was a film noir style thriller. Inherit The Wind was acourt room drama. Seven Days In May was a cold war paranoia thriller. Hombre was his only western and his final film was The Iceman Cometh.
