Lydia Clarke(1923-2018)
- Actress
- Camera and Electrical Department
Lydia Clarke came to Chicago in 1941, at the age of 18, and graduated
from Northwestern University in 1945. She worked in summer stock at the
Belfry Theater in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, and with the University
Players at Northwestern. After graduating, she had four years of
professional experience in the east, and in late December, 1949 and
into January of 1950, she was back in Chicago on stage at the
Blackstone Theater, playing Mary McLeod, wife of the hard-minded
detective, played by Chester Morris, in Sidney Kingsley's "Detective
Story."