Biography

Kramer's career spanned wide associations in the fields of Motion Pictures, Education, Literature and Psychiatry.

Anne, nee "Pearce," Kramer was born in Saginaw, Michigan, the daughter of June and Perce Pearce, the Disney cartoonist.

She started her career as an actress and was featured in several films often playing multi-ethnic characters due to her striking exotic looks. Soon following, she went on to work in the theatre in New York.

When she met her husband, Stanley Kramer, they formed a working partnership on most of his early remarkable films. They had two children together, actress Casey Kramer and script editor and academic Lawrence (Larry) Kramer.

Kramer worked in motion picture production, distribution, casting, editing and marketing of the award-winning films "Cyrano de Bergerac," "High Noon," "Member of the Wedding," "The Wild One," "The Caine Mutiny," "Not as a Stranger," "The Pride and the Passion," "The Defiant Ones," "On the Beach," "Inherit the Wind" and "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" during her marriage to producer/director Stanley Kramer. Later, she held positions with Castle Hill Productions, working with Elaine May and Julian Schlossberg, and was involved in the development of several projects, among them "Million Dollar Baby," "Face of Fear," "Little Me," and Tolkien's "The Rock Hobbit."

During filming of "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World," in Palm Springs, she survived a severe fire causing third-degree burns covering her body. She then returned to a successful academic career, born in her days at the University of Southern California.

Over the course of her educational career, she acquired two PhD's in Comparative Literature and Film. She was Professor of Comparative Literature and Film at California State University Long Beach and Senior Lecturer on literature and film at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, as well as lecturer at New York University, Orange Coast College and University of California, Berkeley. Among her students were Jim Morrison of The Doors and director, George Lucas. She later became Executive Story Editor at Columbia Pictures.

Dr. Kramer authored, co-authored and contributed to several books including "Directors at Work," featuring a section on her husband, Stanley Kramer, "Comparative Metamorphoses in Ovidian Myth," "Modern Literature and the Arts," "Encyclopedia Britannica Films" and "Focus on Film and Theatre." She spoke five languages.

In the community, Dr. Kramer created the communications consultancy, Cathexis 3; chaired "The University Forum" for the University of Southern California, Los Angeles Graduate School; was Co-Director of Model United Nations in Los Angeles, under the auspices of Eleanor Roosevelt; and participated as Educational Consultant and teacher at Camarillo State Mental Hospital.

She became a psychoanalyst in the 1990's, seeing patients in private practice in Beverly Hills.

- IMDb Mini Biography By: C.L. Kramer