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Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Catherine_Calvert > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Catherine_Calvert.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Calvert > Source revision: 1347342176 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{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](/source/Baltimore%2C_Maryland), U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|1971|1|18|1890|4|20}} | death_place = [Uniondale, New York](/source/Uniondale%2C_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, Catherine Calvert was born and raised in [Baltimore, Maryland](/source/Baltimore%2C_Maryland).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. She made her stage debut in the play ''Brown of Harvard'' in September 1908, in [Albany, New York](/source/Albany%2C_New_York). On Broadway, she portrayed Doris Moore in ''[The Deep Purple](/source/The_Deep_Purple_(play))'' (1911),{{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](/source/NYTimes.com)}}{{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](/source/Newspapers.com)}} May Joyce in ''The Escape'' (1913), and Dona Sol in ''[Blood and Sand](/source/Blood_and_Sand_(play))'' (1921).{{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}} After many years' experience onstage in productions including ''The Deep Purple'' (a play by [Wilson Mizner](/source/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).{{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}} 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](/source/Vitagraph_Studios). Calvert married Armstrong in New Haven in 1913.{{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](/source/Newspapers.com)}} They remained wed until his death in 1915.{{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](/source/Newspapers.com)}} She later married Canadian grain exporter George A. Carruthers, who died in 1952.{{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](/source/Newspapers.com)}} In 1971, Calvert died in [Uniondale, New York](/source/Uniondale%2C_New_York), at age 80. ==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](/source/Outcast_(1917_film))'' (1917) * ''[The Uphill Path](/source/The_Uphill_Path)'' (1918) * ''A Romance of the Underworld'' (1918) * ''Out of the Night'' (1918) * ''Marriage'' (1918) * ''[Marriage For Convenience](/source/Marriage_For_Convenience)'' (1919) * ''[Fires of Faith](/source/Fires_of_Faith)'' (1919) * ''[The Career of Katherine Bush](/source/The_Career_of_Katherine_Bush)'' (1919) * ''[Dead Men Tell No Tales](/source/Dead_Men_Tell_No_Tales_(1920_film))'' (1920) * ''[The Heart of Maryland](/source/The_Heart_of_Maryland_(1921_film))'' (1921) * ''[You Find It Everywhere](/source/You_Find_It_Everywhere)'' (1921) * ''[Moral Fibre](/source/Moral_Fibre)'' (1921) * ''[The Green Caravan](/source/The_Green_Caravan)'' (1922) *''[That Woman](/source/That_Woman_(1922_film))'' (1922) * ''[The Indian Love Lyrics](/source/The_Indian_Love_Lyrics)'' (1923) * ''[Out to Win](/source/Out_to_Win_(1923_film))'' (1923) ==References== {{reflist}} ==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 {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Calvert, Catherine}} Category:1971 deaths Category:1890 births Category:20th-century American actresses Category:Actresses from Baltimore Category:American silent film actresses Category:American stage actresses {{US-film-actor-1890s-stub}} {{US-stage-actor-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Catherine Calvert](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Calvert) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Calvert?action=history)). 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