Ashton Stevens
Critic, Deceased Person
1872 – 1951
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Who was Ashton Stevens?
Ashton P. Stevens was an American journalist regarded as the dean of American drama critics. His newspaper column appeared in The San Francisco Examiner and later in the Chicago Herald-American. He was theatre critic for the Hearst Newspapers for 50 years, 40 of them in Chicago. The character of Jedediah Leland in the film Citizen Kane is based on Stevens, a close boyhood friend of Orson Welles.
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- Born
- Aug 11, 1872
San Francisco - Also known as
- Ashton P. Stevens
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Aleece Uhlorn
(1900 - 1926) - Florence Katherine Krug
(1927 - 1951)
- Aleece Uhlorn
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Died
- Jul 12, 1951
Chicago
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on July 23, 2013
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