Marion Coakley (September 22, 1896 - August 30, 1968) was an actress on stage and screen.
She was in various theatrical productions from 1917 into the later 1920s. [1]
The New York Public Library has a collection of photographs of her from White Studio. [2] The Library of Congress has a glass negative photo of her. [3]
Alice Brady was an American actress who began her career in the silent film era and survived the transition into talkies. She worked until six months before her death from cancer in 1939. Her films include My Man Godfrey (1936), in which she plays the flighty mother of Carole Lombard's character, and In Old Chicago (1937) for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Gloria Jacqueline LeRoy was an American character actress. She had a diverse career on stage, in film, and on television. Her film career began after Norman Lear spotted her on stage and cast her in The Night They Raided Minsky's in 1968. She was perhaps best known for playing the voluptuous Mildred "Boom Boom" Turner in the 1970s sitcom All in the Family.
The White Liars is a one-act play by Peter Shaffer, first performed in 1967 originally titled White Lies.
There's a Girl in My Soup is a stage comedy written by Terence Frisby. Set in the 1960s, it tells the story of a smooth-talking TV chef, Robert Danvers, who falls for a much younger woman, Marion. She leaves her hippy boyfriend, Jimmy, to live with Danvers, but eventually returns to Jimmy, leaving Danvers bereft.
Munsey's Weekly, later known as Munsey's Magazine, was a 36-page quarto American magazine founded by Frank A. Munsey in 1889 and edited by John Kendrick Bangs. Frank Munsey aimed to publish "a magazine of the people and for the people, with pictures and art and good cheer and human interest throughout". Soon after its inception, the magazine was selling 40,000 copies a week. In 1891, Munsey's Weekly adopted a monthly schedule and was renamed Munsey's Magazine.
Grace Filkins was an American stage actress.
Richard Ganthony (1856–1924) was an actor and playwright. He is best known as the author of the drama A Message from Mars, which premiered in 1899.
Edward Langford was an actor in American films and theater productions. He was paired in films with Alice Brady.
Vivian Rushmore was an actress who had leading roles in several Broadway productions. She was cast in Charles Klein's 1914 production The Money Makers. She played a fairy godmother in the 1912 Cinderella themed production The Lady Slipper. She played a screenwriter in The Squab Farm (1918). She portrayed Bernice Warren in The Girl in the Limousine (play) (1919).
Charles Neville Buck was an American writer who had many of his novels staged in theater productions and adapted into films during the silent film era. He was born in Woodford County, Kentucky. His father Charles William Buck served U.S. president Grover Cleveland's administration in Peru and wrote Under the Sun about the Inca period. His maternal grandfather was dean of the University of Kentucky Medical School.
Ruth Jean MacTammany, also known as Jeanne Iver and Ruth Rishel, was an actress, singer, and screenwriter from the United States. She had film roles and a film company was named for her.
A Knight for a Day is a successful musical play written by Raymond Hubbell that debuted in 1907.
Walter Archer Frost was an American writer of plays and stories. He served in the U.S. Army. He authored the story the film The Siren was based on. He also wrote the 1925 play Cape Smoke. He also wrote the play the 1929 film Black Magic was based on.
Harry Mestayer (1876–1958) was an actor in silent films and theatrical productions in the U.S. He had leading roles and was a supporting actor in more than two dozen films and numerous theaterical productions. He performed in California, was in several hits in Chicago and performed on Broadway.
John C. Brownell was an actor and writer who had a career in theater and film in the U.S. Yale University has a collection of his papers. Brownell was born in Burlington, Vermont. He wrote several plays. He worked in the film industry for Universal Film Corporation. He died in Starksboro, Vermont.
Marie Conway Oemler was an American author from Georgia. She wrote numerous books and was a contributor to publications including The Century Magazine, Harper's Bazaar, Women's Home Companion, and Ladies Home Journal. Her books Slippy McGee and A Woman Named Smith are part of the Library of Congress Collection and have been digitized. Three films have been adapted from her novels.
Forrest Robinson was an American stage and silent era actor. He was a leading man at the Boston Museum Theater and acted in numerous theatrical productions in New York. He also appeared in numerous films.
Samuel Sherman Krellberg was a film distributor and producer in the United States. The Library of Congress has a collection of his papers.
Edna Belle Alexander (1892–1972) was an American soprano singer and music composer. In addition to performing, she became a songwriter and published music under the name Alex Belledna.
Edward E. Kidder was a playwright in the United States. Several of his works were adapted to film including A Poor Relation in 1921.