Accustomed to Her Face: Thirty-Five Character Actresses of Golden Age HollywoodMcFarland, 1.8.2016 - 288 sivua Drawing on historical documents and newspaper reports, this book provides a fascinating portrait of a diverse group of character actresses who left their stamp on Hollywood from the early sound era through the 1960s. The lives of 35 actresses are explored in detail. Some are familiar: Margaret Hamilton starred in dozens of films before and after her signature role as the Wicked Witch in The Wizard of Oz; Una Merkel nearly died when her mother committed suicide in 1945. Others are nearly forgotten: Maude Eburne owed her career to a spectacular fall on the Broadway stage in 1914; Greta Meyer, who played the quintessential German maid, came to Hollywood after years in New York's Yiddish theater--though she wasn't Jewish. |
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... born in Mitchell County, Iowa, on January 20, 1878.7 He started life in St. Ansgar, Iowa, and from about 1881 he and ... born in 1869,15 whereas I am quite certain she was born in 1871. When an individual appears in the U.S. census as a ...
... born on March 10, 1871.17 There is no question that Busley was born in Albany, New York. In 1875, then, we find her living in a $9,500 brick home with her father, James R. Busley (41), her mother, Sara Busley (38), no less than five ...
... born in San Francisco three years later, Caine was born into a theatrical family, or, as she put it herself, she was “practically born on the stage”: “My people were stage people and I was a stage child in every sense of the word. I was ...
... born widow Augusta H. Jefferson, who lived in and was paid $480 a year.38 Caine's father had died on August 25, 1924, as she was gearing up for a new musical comedy, Be Yourself, at the Sam H. Harris Theatre, where she played a ...
... born into a solidly working-class family in Brooklyn, while Patricia Collinge was born in Ireland into a solidly middle-class, Anglo-Irish family and came to the United States when she was 16. Gilchrist married a not particularly ...
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Maude Eburne 18751960 | 31 |
Effie Ellsler 18551942 | 38 |
Edith Evanson 18961980 | 43 |
Eily Malyon 18791961 | 121 |
Una Merkel 190386 | 127 |
Greta Meyer 18831965 | 133 |
Dennie Moore 190278 | 139 |
Ona Munson 190355 | 143 |
Mary Nash 18841976 | 151 |
Barbara ONeil 191080 | 157 |
Rafaela Ottiano 18881942 | 162 |
Blanche Friderici 18731933 | 49 |
Grace George 18741961 | 54 |
Connie Gilchrist 18951985 | 59 |
Minna Gombell 18921973 | 66 |
Ethel Griffies 18781975 | 71 |
Sara Haden 18981981 | 76 |
Margaret Hamilton
190285 | 83 |
Rosalind Ivan 18801959 | 89 |
Isabel Jewell 190772 | 96 |
Violet Kemble Cooper 18861961 | 105 |
Doris Lloyd 18911968 | 111 |
Helen Lowell 18651937 | 116 |
Tempe Pigott 18691962 | 168 |
Anita SharpBolster 18951985 | 174 |
Libby Taylor 1900? | 180 |
Zeffie Tilbury 18631950 | 188 |
Norma Varden 18981989 | 195 |
Nydia Westman 190270 | 201 |
Margaret Wycherly 18791956 | 207 |
Blanche Yurka 18871974 | 215 |
Chapter Notes | 223 |
Bibliography | 269 |
Index | 271 |
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