Editing Fredric March (section)

==Marriage and public activities==
[[File:Fredric March in Best Years of Our Lives trailer.jpg|thumb|March in 1946]]
 
March was married to actress [[Florence Eldridge]] from 1927 until his death in 1975, and they had two adopted children. They appeared in seven films together, the last being ''Inherit the Wind''.<ref>{{cite news |last=Pryor |first=Thomas M. |url=https://archive.org/stream/variety219-1960-07#page/n6/mode/2up |title=Film Reviews: Inherit the Wind |work=Variety |page=6 |date=July 6, 1960 |access-date=December 4, 2020 |via=[[Internet Archive]]}}</ref>

March and Eldridge commissioned [[Wallace Neff]] to build [[Fredric March House|their house in Ridgeview Drive]], [[Bel Air, Los Angeles|Bel Air]], in 1934. It has subsequently been owned by the philanthropist [[Wallis Annenberg]] and the actors [[Brad Pitt]] and [[Jennifer Aniston]].<ref name=Variety>{{cite news |url=https://variety.com/2019/dirt/actors/hedge-funder-slashes-price-of-showbiz-pedigreed-estate-by-4-5-million-1203380154/ |title=Hedge Funder Slashes Price of Showbiz Pedigreed Estate by $4.5 Million |date=October 22, 2019 |work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |accessdate=April 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191023142124if_/https://variety.com/2019/dirt/actors/hedge-funder-slashes-price-of-showbiz-pedigreed-estate-by-4-5-million-1203380154/ |archive-date=October 23, 2019 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Throughout his life, March and Eldridge were supporters of the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]]. In July 1936, March co-founded the [[Hollywood Anti-Nazi League|Hollywood Anti-Nazi League (HANL)]],<ref>{{cite web| url=http://digital-library.csun.edu/Backyard/hollywood-fights-back.html| title=Hollywood Fights Back - In Our Own Backyard: Resisting Nazi Propaganda in Southern California 1933-1945| website=digital-library.csun.edu| language=en| access-date=May 31, 2018| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180601085029/http://digital-library.csun.edu/Backyard/hollywood-fights-back.html| archive-date=June 1, 2018| url-status=dead}}</ref> along with the writers [[Dorothy Parker]]<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/you_must_remember_this/2016/02/the_hollywood_career_and_blacklist_experience_of_dorothy_parker.html| title=Dorothy Parker Goes to Hollywood| last=Longworth| first=Karina| date=February 26, 2016| journal=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]| access-date=May 31, 2018| language=en-US| issn=1091-2339}}</ref> and [[Donald Ogden Stewart]], the director [[Fritz Lang]], and the composer [[Oscar Hammerstein II|Oscar Hammerstein]].

In 1938, March was one of many Hollywood personalities who were investigated by the [[House Un-American Activities Committee]] (HUAC) and the hunt for Communists in the film community. In July 1940, he was among a number of individuals who were questioned by a HUAC subcommittee which was led by Representative [[Martin Dies Jr.]]<ref>{{cite web| url=http://blog.ecu.edu/sites/cwis/2017/12/huac-goes-to-hollywood-part-1-the-forgotten-investigation-of-1940/| title=HUAC Goes to Hollywood, Part 1: The Forgotten Investigation of 1940| website=Cold War & Internal Security (CWIS) Collection: East Carolina University| language=en-US| date=December 7, 2017| access-date=May 31, 2018}}</ref>

Later, in 1948, he and his wife sued the anti-communist publication ''[[Counterattack (newsletter)|Counterattack]]'' for [[defamation]], seeking $250,000 in damages.<ref name=Everitt>
{{cite book
| first = David
| last = Everitt
| title = A Shadow of Red: Communism and the Blacklist in Radio and Television
| publisher = Ivan R. Dee
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=OZQ0DwAAQBAJ
| pages = 30 (1948), 85 (1950)
| date = 2007
| accessdate = March 3, 2018| isbn = 9781683931133
}}</ref> The suit was settled out of court.<ref name=Cuthbertson>
{{cite book
| first = Ken
| last = Cuthbertson
| title = A Complex Fate: William L. Shirer and the American Century
| publisher = McGill-Queen's Press
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=jZwHCAAAQBAJ
| pages = 
| date = May 1, 2015
| accessdate = March 3, 2018| isbn = 9780773597242
}}</ref>

March died of [[prostate cancer]] in Los Angeles on April 14, 1975, at the age of 77.<ref name="z458">{{cite news |last=Krebs |first=Albin | title=Fredric March Dies of Cancer; Stage and Screen Actor Was 77; Fredric March Dies of Cancer at 77 | website=[[The New York Times]] | date=April 15, 1975 | url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1975/04/15/76348051.html?pageNumber=1 | access-date=May 15, 2024}}</ref> He was buried at his estate in [[New Milford, Connecticut]].<ref name="m259">{{cite news | title=A city boy's month on the farm | website=The Tidewater News | date=June 25, 2014 | url=https://www.thetidewaternews.com/2014/06/25/a-city-boys-month-on-the-farm/ | access-date=May 15, 2024}}</ref><ref name="a121">{{cite news | title=New Milford's Merryall Center for the Arts to hold film series | website=The Register Citizen | date=May 28, 2014 | url=https://www.registercitizen.com/entertainment/article/New-Milford-s-Merryall-Center-for-the-Arts-to-12008932.php | access-date=May 15, 2024}}</ref>