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Catherine Calvert | |
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| Born | Catherine Cassidy April 20, 1890 Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. |
| Died | January 18, 1971 (aged 80) Uniondale, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Spouses | Paul Armstrong (m. 1913;died 1915)George A. Carruthers (m. 1925;died 1952) |
| Children | 1 |
Catherine Calvert (born Catherine Cassidy; April 20, 1890 – January 18, 1971) was an American actress.
The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cassidy, [1] Catherine Calvert was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. [2]
She made her stage debut in the play Brown of Harvard in September 1908, in Albany, New York. [2] On Broadway, she portrayed Laura Moore in The Deep Purple (1911), May Joyce in The Escape (1913), and Dona Sol in Blood and Sand (1921). [3]
After many years' experience onstage in productions including The Deep Purple (a play by her future husband, Paul Armstrong), in 1910, she entered films via Keeney Pictures Corporation in A Romance of the Underworld (1918; based on a play in which she had appeared onstage). [4]
Other films in which she appeared include Marriage, Out of the Night, Career of Katherine Bush, Marriage for Convenience, and Fires of Faith. Around 1920, she was a star of Vitagraph Studios. [4]
Calvert married Armstrong in New Haven in 1913. [5] They remained wed until his death in 1915. [1] She later married Canadian grain exporter George A. Carruthers, who died in 1952. [6]
In 1971, Calvert died in Uniondale, New York, at age 80. [6]
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