Zoe Rae

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Zoe Rae
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Zoe Rae in The Silent Lady (1917)
Born(1910-07-13)July 13, 1910
DiedMay 20, 2006(2006-05-20) (aged 95)
OccupationActress
Years active19151920

Zoe Rae (born Zoë Rae Bech; July 13, 1910 May 20, 2006) was an American child actress of the silent era. [1] [2] [3] She appeared in 54 films between 1915 and 1920. She was called "the greatest little emotional actress on record" by Motion Picture Magazine . [4]

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When she was ten, her father decided she could not make more movies until she had finished schooling. After college, she tried screenwriting and opened her a dance studio in Hollywood She would marry fellow dancer Ronald Foster Barlow in the early 1930s. [4]

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References

  1. Davis, Lon (June 16, 2006). "Zoe Rae". The Independent . Retrieved October 24, 2020.
  2. III, Harris M. Lentz (October 24, 2008). Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2006: Film, Television, Radio, Theatre, Dance, Music, Cartoons and Pop Culture. McFarland. ISBN   9780786452118 . Retrieved May 2, 2019 via Google Books.
  3. Lowe, Denise (January 27, 2014). An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Women in Early American Films: 1895-1930. Routledge. ISBN   9781317718970 . Retrieved May 2, 2019 via Google Books.
  4. 1 2 "Zoe Rae: Child Star of the 1910s" by Lon Davis. The Independent. April 1, 2009. Accessed April 22, 2021.