{{short description|American actress}}
{{Use American English|date=July 2020}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2020}} {{More citations needed |date=October 2020}} {{Infobox person | name = Charlotte Burton | image = File:Charlotte Burton (SAYRE 11829).jpg | caption = Charlotte Burton in 1903 | other_names = Charlotte B. Stuart,<br/> Charlotte Burton Stuart | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1881|05|30}} | birth_place = San Francisco, California, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|1942|03|28|1881|05|30}} | death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S. | occupation = Actress | spouse = {{plainlist| * {{marriage|Weston Birch Wooldridge|1904|end=div}} * {{marriage|William Russell|1917|1921|end=div}} * {{marriage|Darrell Stuart|1928}} }} | children = 1 }}
'''Charlotte E. Burton''' (May 30, 1881 – March 28, 1942)<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J5ZZAAAAMAAJ&q=charlotte+burton+1881|title=Silent Film Necrology: Births and Deaths of Over 9000 Performers, Directors, Producers, and Other Filmmakers of the Silent Era, Through 1993|first=Eugene Michael|last=Vazzana|date=October 20, 1995|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786401321|via=Google Books}}</ref> was an American silent film actress.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Sragow |first=Michael |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sGY1EAAAQBAJ&dq=%22Charlotte+Burton%22+actress&pg=PT7 |title=Victor Fleming: An American Movie Master |date=2013-12-10 |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |isbn=978-0-8131-4442-9 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web |date=March 31, 1942 |title=Obituary for Charlotte B. Stuart |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-obituary-for-charl/124024749/ |access-date=2023-05-04 |website=The Los Angeles Times |page=14 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
==Biography == thumb|upright=.7|Burton in 1915
=== Early life and education === Charlotte E. Burton was born on May 30, 1881, in San Francisco, California.<ref name=":1" /> However there is some debate on her date of birth; some sources state she was born ten years later, on May 30, 1891;<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Justice |first=Fred C. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HRU6AQAAIAAJ |title=Who's Who in the Film World: Being Biographies with Photographic Reproductions of Prominent Men and Women who Through Their Genius and Untiring Energy Have Contributed So Greatly Toward the Upbuilding of the Moving Picture Industry |last2=Smith |first2=Tom R. |date=1914 |publisher=Film World Publishing Company |pages=17 |language=en}}</ref> and other sources state she died at age 48 (which would be a date of birth around 1894).{{Note|However, these alternatives dates of birth are implausible given her age in the 1902 photograph}}<ref name=":2" />
Burton attended The Cooper–Gerson School of Acting in San Francisco, where she studied under Leo Cooper.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |date=December 19, 1902 |title=South Park Settlement Will Give Dramatic Entertainment |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-san-francisco-call-south-park-settle/124024970/ |access-date=2023-05-04 |website=The San Francisco Call |page=9 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> In December 1902, Burton participated in a theatrical program in South Park, San Francisco, presented by The Cooper–Gerson School of Acting.<ref>{{Cite web |date=December 19, 1902 |title=Theatricals at South Park |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/san-francisco-chronicle-theatricals-at-s/124024885/ |access-date=2023-05-04 |website=San Francisco Chronicle |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref name=":3" />
=== Career === Burton was signed by the American Film Manufacturing Company in 1912 where she worked for several years.<ref name=":0" /> She joined Essanay Studios which she sued in 1919 for $25,000 for breach of contract. She originally signed with the company believing she would be acting in mostly drama film but she was cast in mostly comedy films. Her salary had been $200 a week with an option for her services at the rate of $300 a week for a second year.{{Citation needed |date=May 2023}}
Charlotte claimed that she was signed by Essanay business manager, Vernon R. Day, to a contract extending from November 1916 until November 1918. She was discharged without reason. When Burton came to the Chicago, studio she refused a role offered her in a Black Cat comedy, presented to her by Essanay president George K. Spoor. She declined because she was not a comedian. Instead, she accepted a role as leading lady in a film featuring Henry B. Wallace. She admitted that she was paid for ten weeks, at $200 per week, prior to being dumped by Essanay. Essanay executives claimed Burton automatically voided her contract when she refused the comedic part.{{Citation needed |date=May 2023}}
Upon arriving in California, Burton stayed for a time at the ''Angleus''. She came there from New York and was on her way to Santa Barbara, California, to work for the American Film Company, which had its studios there. In May 1916, Burton was involved in making ''The Man Who Would Not Die'', directed by William F. Russell and Jack Prescott.{{Citation needed |date=May 2023}}
The company of American and Canadian players spent a week in Long Beach, California, filming water scenes. Others in the cast were Harry Keenan and Leona Hutton. The script was written by Mabel Condon. Among her many co-stars in motion pictures were Mary Miles Minter, William Russell, Harold Lockwood, and Lottie Pickford.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |date=March 31, 1942 |title=Charlotte Burton, Silent Film Heroine, Is Dead |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-sacramento-bee-charlotte-burton-sil/124024581/ |access-date=2023-05-04 |website=The Sacramento Bee |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref name=":5">{{Cite web |date=March 31, 1942 |title=Rites tomorrow for ex-actress |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-rites-tomorrow-for-ex-actress/124024670/ |access-date=2023-05-04 |website=Daily News (Los Angeles, California) |via=Newspapers.com |quote=Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles, California}}</ref>
==Personal life== Burton's first marriage was to Weston Birch Wooldridge in 1904. They had a daughter together, Charlotte Burton Wooldridge (married name Coombs).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.goberfamily.org/Gober/gober-o/p494.htm#i44187|title=The Unofficial Gober Genealogy Site - Person Page|website=www.goberfamily.org}}</ref><ref name=":5" /> After her divorce she moved to Santa Barbara and dated Victor Fleming.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Sragow |first=Michael |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sGY1EAAAQBAJ&dq=%22Charlotte+Burton%22+actress&pg=PT7 |title=Victor Fleming: An American Movie Master |date=2013-12-10 |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |isbn=978-0-8131-4442-9 |pages=28 |language=en}}</ref>
In May 1917, Burton married actor William Russell in Santa Ana, California.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{cite news |title=Other woman is named in suite against Russell |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61439691/the-santa-barbara-daily-news-and-the/ |access-date=October 20, 2020 |work=The Santa Barbara Daily News and the Independent |date=July 1, 1918 |page=10|via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> They divorced in 1921.<ref name=":6">{{Cite book |last=Katchmer |first=George A. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VnGeCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA336 |title=A Biographical Dictionary of Silent Film Western Actors and Actresses |date=2015-05-20 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-0905-8 |pages=336 |language=en |chapter=William Russell}}</ref> She remarried to contractor Darrell Stuart around 1928.{{Citation needed |date=May 2023}}
She died at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles, California, on March 28, 1942, from a heart attack.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":5" /><ref name=":4" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=April 1, 1942 |title=Charlotte Burton Dies, Star of Silent Screen |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/hartford-courant-obituary-for-charlotte/124024608/ |access-date=2023-05-04 |website=Hartford Courant |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
==Filmography== {| class="wikitable" ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Year ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Film ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Role ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" |Notes |- |1912 |''It Happened Thus'' |the older daughter |<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eDAXAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA138 |title=Motion Picture Story Magazine |date=1913 |publisher=Macfadden-Bartell. |volume=5 |pages=138 |language=en}}</ref> |- | rowspan="12" |1913 |''The Awakening'' | | |- |''The Adventures of Jacques'' |Queen of France |<ref name=":0" /> |- |''The Finer Things'' |saddler's wife |<ref name=":0" /> |- |''The Rose of San Juan'' | | |- |''The Road to Ruin'' | |<ref name=":0" /> |- |''Her Big Story'' | | |- |''The Oath of Pierre'' |Julia Naughton, of the border line | |- |''Through the Neighbor's Window'' | | |- |''The Flirt and the Bandit'' | | |- |''Trapped in a Forest Fire'' | | |- |''The Shriner's Daughter'' | | |- |''Calamity Anne, Heroine'' | | |- |rowspan=10|1914 |''Lola'' |May, Lola's sister | |- |''The Mirror'' | | |- |''The Redemption of a Pal'' |Irene, his sister | |- |''Jail Birds'' |Mrs. Patterson | |- |''The Final Impulse'' |Ruth | |- |''A Slice of Life'' |Jessie, Jim's wife | |- |''Old Enough to Be Her Grandpa'' |Lilyan DeVoe | |- |''In the Candlelight'' |Nina, a model | |- |''The Archeologist'' |Edna Lee | |- |''The Beggar Child'' |Rosa, his servant | |- |rowspan=6|1915 |''Refining Fires'' |Nina, the judge's daughter | |- |''Heart of Flame'' |Beppa |<ref name="a">{{Cite journal |last=Caward |first=Neil G. |date=1915-03-06 |title=Hard to Choose Between Fame and Love |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Nickelodeon/JnhJAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Heart+of+Flame%22+%22Vivian+Rich%22&pg=PA355&printsec=frontcover |journal=Nickelodeon |volume=13 |issue=10 |pages=355-356 |via=Google Books}}</ref> |- |''A Touch of Love'' |Martha | |- |''The Day of Reckoning'' |Rita Marr | |- |''She Walketh Alone'' |Rita Horton | |- |''The Diamond from the Sky'' |Vivian Marston | |- |rowspan=10|1916 |''The Thoroughbred'' |Angela Earle |<ref name=":6" /> |- |''The Craving'' |Roby | |- |''The Bruiser'' |Fen Bernham |<ref name=":6" /> |- |''The Highest Bid'' |Elsie Burleigh |<ref name=":6" /> |- |''The Strength of Donald McKenzie'' |Mab el Condon | |- |''The Man Who Would Not Die'' |Agnes | |- |''The Torch Bearer'' |Janet Dare | |- |''The Love Hermit'' | Marie Bolton | |- |''Lone Star'' |Helen Mattes | |- |''The Twinkler'' |Rose Burke | |- |rowspan=2|1918 |''Up Romance Road'' |Marta Millbanke | |- |''Hearts or Diamonds?'' |Adrienne Gascoyne | |- |1919 |''Man's Desire'' |Vera Patton | |- |1920 |''Polly of the Storm Country'' |Evelyn Robertson | |}
==References== {{reflist}}
== Further reading == *''Janesville, Wisconsin Daily Gazette'', "News and Notes from Movieland", August 16, 1916, Page 6. *''Los Angeles Times'', "Personals", January 1, 1913, Page III4. *''Los Angeles Times'', "Studio", May 28, 1916, Page III19. *''Los Angeles Times'', "Seeks Money Balm", October 22, 1919, Page I15. *''Oakland Tribune'', "Romances In Film World Revealed", Sunday Morning, June 24, 1917, Page 19.
==External links== {{Commons}} * {{IMDb name|id=0123540}} * {{cite web |title=Charlotte Burton Filmography |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/778187%7C30858/Charlotte-Burton#filmography |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310214104/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/778187%7C30858/Charlotte-Burton/#filmography |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 10, 2016 |website=TCM |access-date=}}
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