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In 1932 Tandy married English actor [[Jack Hawkins]] and together they had a daughter, Susan Hawkins.<ref name=lat>{{cite news| url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-06-18-ca-14212-story.html| title=Life After Jessie: For 52 years, Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy shared the love story of the century. Her death last year devastated him, but his love lives on.| last=Champlin| first=Charles| newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]| date=June 18, 1995| access-date=November 10, 2020}}</ref> Susan became an actress and was the daughter-in-law of [[John Moynihan Tettemer]], a former Passionist monk who authored ''I Was a Monk: The Autobiography of John Tettemer'', and was cast in small roles in ''[[Lost Horizon (1937 film)|Lost Horizon]]'' and ''[[Meet John Doe]]''.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/persondetails/87016?sid=124efb53-ac38-4d71-9a20-ecdd093756fd&sr=0.8908708&cp=1&pos=0| title=John Tettemer| website=[[American Film Institute]] Catalog| accessdate=5 May 2018}}</ref>
 
Tandy and Hawkins divorced in 1940. She married Canadian actor [[Hume Cronyn]] in 1942.<ref name=lat/> Prior to moving to [[Connecticut]], she and Cronyn lived for many years in nearby [[Pound Ridge, New York]], and they remained together until her death in 1994. They had two children, daughter Tandy Cronyn, an actress who would co-star with her mother in the TV film ''The Story Lady'', and son Christopher Cronyn. Jessica Tandy became a [[naturalized]] citizen of the US in 1952.
 
In 1990, Jessica Tandy was diagnosed with [[ovarian cancer]], and she also suffered from [[Angina pectoris|angina]] and [[glaucoma]]. Despite her illnesses and advancing age she continued working. On September 11, 1994, she died at home in [[Easton, Connecticut]], at the age of 85.<ref name="NYTimes" /><ref>{{cite web| last1=Shipman| first1=David| title=Obituary: Jessica Tandy| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-jessica-tandy-1448550.html| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220608/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-jessica-tandy-1448550.html| archive-date=8 June 2022| url-access=subscription| url-status=live| newspaper=[[The Independent]]| location=London| date=12 September 1994| access-date=11 June 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| title=From the Archives: Jessica Tandy, Star of Stage, Screen and TV, Dies at 85| url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/archives/la-me-jessica-tandy-19940912-snap-story.html| newspaper=Los Angeles Times| date=12 September 1994| access-date=11 June 2019}}</ref>
 
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