Ola Humphrey | |
|---|---|
 Humphrey in 1906 | |
| Born | Pearl Ola Jane Humphrey July 16, 1875 Iowa, U.S. |
| Died | 1948 (72/73) California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1906–1919 |
| Spouses |
|
| Relatives | Orral Humphrey (brother) |
Ola Humphrey (born Pearl Ola Jane Humphrey; July 16, 1875 - 1948) was an American actress on stage and in silent films.
Ola Humphrey was born 16 July 1875 in Iowa as Pearl Ola Jane Humphrey [1] and gave the impression that she'd been almost entirely brought up in Oakland, California, some sources even giving it as her place of birth. However, she was a teenager when the family moved to Oakland, probably in 1891. Ola gave her birth year as 1884, but census figures establish it as 1875. She graduated Class of 1893 from the Snell Seminary in Oakland, where she was celebrated for her ability at dramatic recitation, and in 1894 attended the Emerson School of Oratory in Boston, Massachusetts after this beginning her professional career. She was the daughter of Thomas Marshall Humphrey and Minnie J. Paschal Humphrey. Her father was a San Francisco furniture salesman. Her brother Orral Humphrey was an actor and film director. [1]
Humphrey toured in stage companies in Australia, New Zealand, [2] and Great Britain, in The Empress, [3] The Prodigal Son (1906), [4] The Little Gray Lady (1906), [5] The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Second Mrs. Tanqueray, The Thief, and Another Woman's Window (1918), [6] among others. [7] She appeared in three silent films: Under the Crescent (1915, now lost; a highly-fictionalized serialized version of Humphrey's own story, [8] written by Nell Shipman). [9] [10] The first of six two-reel chapters was entitled The Purple Iris. Other films were Missing (1918), and Coax Me (1919).
Ola Humphrey married three times. Her first husband was Edwin Mordant, a fellow actor; they divorced. [1] While performing on the London stage, she caught the eye of Prince Ibrahim Hassan. [11] Hassan was a cousin to Abbas II of Egypt. [7] Their 1911 marriage in a London registrar's office was witnessed by American Vice-consul Richard Westacott (1849-1922) and the Count de Nevers. [12] However, the marriage soon foundered, and they separated; [13] the complicated matter of divorce was resolved when she was widowed in 1918 (though her legal troubles related to the marriage continued through at least 1923). [14] [15] She remarried to John Henry Broadwood, an English military officer, in 1920. [1] Widowed again, she lived in Los Angeles in 1935, and donated Egyptian artifacts to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. [16] Late in life, she was living in an apartment in New York, [17] her fortune lost or withheld by the Prince's relatives. [18] Ola Humphrey died in California in 1948, aged about 73 years.
Fuad I was the Sultan and later King of Egypt and the Sudan. The ninth ruler of Egypt and Sudan from the Muhammad Ali dynasty, he became Sultan in 1917, succeeding his elder brother Hussein Kamel. He replaced the title of Sultan with King when the United Kingdom unilaterally declared Egyptian independence in 1922.
Nell Shipman was a Canadian actress, author, screenwriter, producer, director, animal rights activist and animal trainer. Her works often had autobiographical elements to them and reflected her passion for nature. She is best known for making a series of melodramatic adventure films based on the novels by American writer James Oliver Curwood in which she played the robust heroine known as the ‘girl from God’s country.'
Gertrude Lamson, known professionally as Nance O'Neil or Nancy O'Neil, was an American stage and film actress who performed in plays in various theaters around the world but worked predominantly in the United States between the 1890s and 1930s. At the height of her career, she was promoted on theater bills and in period trade publications and newspapers as the "American Bernhardt".
Carlyle Blackwell was an American silent film actor, director and producer.
Mabel Taliaferro was an American stage and silent-screen actress, known as "the Sweetheart of American Movies."
Earle Williams was an American stage actor and film star in the silent era.
Under the Crescent is a 1915 American drama film serial directed by Burton L. King, starring Ola Humphrey, and released by Universal. The film is considered to be lost.
Frances Grant Starr was an American stage, film and television actress.
Missing is a 1918 American silent drama film directed by James Young and written by Mary Augusta Ward, J. Stuart Blackton, and James Young. The film stars Thomas Meighan, Sylvia Breamer, Robert Gordon, Winter Hall, Ola Humphrey and Mollie McConnell. The film was released on June 16, 1918, by Paramount Pictures.
Queenie Vassar was a Scottish-born actress on stage and in films.
Thais Lawton was an American actress.
Olive Frances Wyndham Meysenberg was an American actress on stage and in silent films.
May Tully was a Canadian actress, writer, director, and producer in theatre and film, and, according to sportswriter Damon Runyon, "perhaps the greatest woman baseball fan that ever lived."
May Waldron , and later known as May Waldron Robson, was a Canadian-born American actress.
Mazie Follette was an American dancer, actress, vaudeville performer, and Florodora girl. She also wrote poetry, and was a witness in the murder trial of Harry Kendall Thaw.
Mabel Withee was an American actress on stage and in silent film.
Madame Pilar-Morin was a Spanish-French actress on stage, in vaudeville, and in silent films.
Vera Brady Shipman was an American composer, journalist, talent manager, and concert promoter, based in Kansas and Chicago.
Gwendolyn Pates, also billed as Gwendoline Pates, was an American actress in silent films and on stage.
Octavia Broske was an American actress and musical performer.
| Authority control databases: People |
|---|
