Astrid Allwyn (born Astrid Christofferson; November , â€" March , )
was an American stage and film actress.Allwyn was born in South
Manchester, Connecticut, part of a family that included four sisters
and a brother. When she was years old, her family moved to
Springfield, Massachusetts.At age , she sang well enough in a concert
to be offered a scholarship to the Boston Conservatory of Music, but
she declined rather than move away from her home. After finishing high
school, she moved to New York, hoping for a career as a concert
singer, but she ended up taking classes at a business college and
becoming a typist for a business on Wall Street.Allwyn studied dancing
and dramatics in New York and later joined a stock company. Allwyn
made her Broadway debut in in Elmer Rice's Street Scene. On the
strength of her performance in Once in a Lifetime, she was given film
work. She signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and began her screen career.
was an American stage and film actress.Allwyn was born in South
Manchester, Connecticut, part of a family that included four sisters
and a brother. When she was years old, her family moved to
Springfield, Massachusetts.At age , she sang well enough in a concert
to be offered a scholarship to the Boston Conservatory of Music, but
she declined rather than move away from her home. After finishing high
school, she moved to New York, hoping for a career as a concert
singer, but she ended up taking classes at a business college and
becoming a typist for a business on Wall Street.Allwyn studied dancing
and dramatics in New York and later joined a stock company. Allwyn
made her Broadway debut in in Elmer Rice's Street Scene. On the
strength of her performance in Once in a Lifetime, she was given film
work. She signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and began her screen career.
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