Catherine Calvert

{{Use American English|date=July 2020}} {{short description|American actress}} {{refimprove|date=July 2017}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2017}}

{{Infobox person | name = Catherine Calvert | image = Catherine Calvert from Who's Who on the Screen.jpg | alt = | caption = From ''Who's Who on the Screen'', 1920 | birth_name = Catherine Cassidy | birth_date = {{Birth date|1890|4|20}} | birth_place = Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|1971|1|18|1890|4|20}} | death_place = Uniondale, New York, U.S. | spouse = {{plainlist| * {{marriage|Paul Armstrong|1913|1915|end=d}} * {{marriage|George A. Carruthers|1925|1952|end=d}} }} | children = 1 | occupation = Actress }}

'''Catherine Calvert''' (born '''Catherine Cassidy'''; April 20, 1890 – January 18, 1971) was an American actress.

==Biography== The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cassidy,<ref name="bs" /> Catherine Calvert was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland.<ref name="Hanaford">Hines, Dixie; Hanaford, Harry Prescott, eds. (1914). "Calvert, Catherine (Catherine Calvert Cassidy)". ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=tpafAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA60 Who's Who in Music and Drama]''. New York: H. P. Hanaford, p. 60.</ref>

She made her stage debut in the play ''Brown of Harvard'' in September 1908, in Albany, New York.<ref name="Hanaford"/> On Broadway, she portrayed Doris Moore in ''The Deep Purple'' (1911),<ref name="nyt011011">{{cite news |title=New Play Of Crooks Seen At The Lyric |work=The New York Times |date=January 10, 1911 |location=New York, New York |page=4 |via = NYTimes.com}}</ref><ref name="tew011111">{{cite news |last=Darnton |first=Charles |title=The New Plays |work=The Evening World |date=January 11, 1911 |location=New York, New York |page=19 |via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> May Joyce in ''The Escape'' (1913), and Dona Sol in ''Blood and Sand'' (1921).<ref>{{cite web |title=Catherine Calvert |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/catherine-calvert-34294 |website=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |accessdate=August 9, 2020 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809185238/https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/catherine-calvert-34294 |archivedate=August 9, 2020}}</ref>

After many years' experience onstage in productions including ''The Deep Purple'' (a play by Wilson Mizner and 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).<ref name="Fox-Silver">{{cite book|title=Who's Who on the Screen|year=1920|editor1-last=Fox |editor1-first=Charles Donald |editor2-last=Silver |editor2-first=Milton L.|location=New York|publisher=Ross Publishing|chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/whoswhoonscreen00foxc#page/272/mode/1up|chapter=Catherine Calvert |page=272}}</ref>

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.<ref name="Fox-Silver"/>

Calvert married Armstrong in New Haven in 1913.<ref>{{cite news |title=Wife for Paul Armstrong |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57012645/catherine-calvert/ |accessdate=August 9, 2020 |work=The Kansas City Star |date=December 20, 1913 |location=Missouri, Kansas City |page=2|via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> They remained wed until his death in 1915.<ref name="bs">{{cite news |title=Paul Armstrong Dead |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57014524/the-baltimore-sun/ |accessdate=August 9, 2020 |work=The Baltimore Sun |date=August 31, 1915 |location=Maryland, Baltimore |page=1|via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> She later married Canadian grain exporter George A. Carruthers, who died in 1952.<ref name="pi">{{cite news |title=Miss Calvert, Actress, at 80 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57015561/catherine-calvert/ |accessdate=August 9, 2020 |work=The Philadelphia Inquirer |date=January 20, 1971 |page=54|via = Newspapers.com}}</ref>

In 1971, Calvert died in Uniondale, New York, at age 80.<ref name=pi/>

==Filmography== thumb|''Marriage for Convenience'' (1919) * ''Partners'' (1916) (*short) * ''House of Cards'' (1917) * ''The Peddler'' (1917)) * ''Think It Over'' (1917) * ''Behind the Mask'' (1917) * ''Outcast'' (1917) * ''The Uphill Path'' (1918) * ''A Romance of the Underworld'' (1918) * ''Out of the Night'' (1918) * ''Marriage'' (1918) * ''Marriage For Convenience'' (1919) * ''Fires of Faith'' (1919) * ''The Career of Katherine Bush'' (1919) * ''Dead Men Tell No Tales'' (1920) * ''The Heart of Maryland'' (1921) * ''You Find It Everywhere'' (1921) * ''Moral Fibre'' (1921) * ''The Green Caravan'' (1922) *''That Woman'' (1922) * ''The Indian Love Lyrics'' (1923) * ''Out to Win'' (1923)

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==External links== {{Commons category}} *{{IMDb name|}} *{{IBDB name|34294}} *[http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?parent_id=501335&word= Catherine Calvert] photo gallery NY Public Library Billy Rose Collection *[http://www.corbisimages.com/Search/SearchResults.aspx?q=catherine+calvert Catherine Calvert] portraits at Corbis

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