Editing Judith Anderson (section)

===Early years in America===
Anderson was ambitious and wanted to leave Australia. Most local actors went to London, but the war made this difficult, so she decided on the U.S.<ref name="later" /> She travelled to California, but was unsuccessful for four months, then moved to New York, with an equal lack of success.<ref>{{cite web| first=Anne| last=Heywood| title=Anderson, Frances Margaret (Judith)| url=http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/IMP0006b.htm|publisher=National Foundation for Australian Women| work=Australian Women's Archives Project| date=7 May 2003| access-date=11 May 2008}}</ref><ref name="new" />

After a period of poverty and illness, she found work with the Emma Bunting Stock Company at the [[Fourteenth Street Theatre]] in 1918–19. She then toured with other stock companies.<ref name="new" />