{{Short description|American actress (1876–1958)}} {{about|the Broadway theater actress|the Australian politician|Charlotte Walker (politician)|the singer formerly known as Charlotte Walker|Lotta Hedlund}} {{Use American English|date=July 2020}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2014}} {{Infobox person | name = Charlotte Walker | image = Charlottewalker.jpg | alt = | caption = Walker in 1902 Broadway play ''The Crisis'' | birth_name = Charlotte Ganahl Walker | birth_date = {{Birth date|1876|12|29}} | birth_place = Galveston, Texas, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|1958|3|23|1876|12|29}} | death_place = Kerrville, Texas, U.S. | resting_place = Old City Cemetery, Galveston County, Texas, U.S.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=U9PIDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA78 ''Accustomed to her Face'']</ref> | other_names = | occupation = Actress | years_active = 1900–1941 | spouse = {{plainlist| * {{marriage|Dr. John Haden|1896|1903|end=divorce}} * {{marriage|Eugene Walter|1908|1923|end=divorce}} }} | children = 2, including Sara Haden }} __NOTOC__
'''Charlotte Ganahl Walker''' (December 29, 1876{{spaced ndash}}March 23, 1958)<ref>Wilson, Scott (2016). ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=7-DgDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA782 Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons]''. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company. p. 782. {{ISBN|978-0-7864-7992-4}}.</ref> was a Broadway theater actress.<ref>[http://asp6new.alexanderstreet.com/atho/atho.detail.people.aspx?personcode=per0122566 Charlotte Walker; ''North American Theatre Online''] site offered to most colleges and universities for free</ref>
[[File:Actress_Charlotte_Walker_as_sketched_by_Marguerite_Martyn,_1910.jpg|thumb|upright|Walker as sketched by Marguerite Martyn, 1910]]
==Stage actress== Walker made her stage debut as a teen in 1893. At nineteen 1895 she performed in London, England in a comedy called ''The Mummy'' and in the same year performed with Richard Mansfield. Later, she returned to her native Texas after marrying and had two children.{{Citation needed |date=January 2021}} In 1900, she made her Broadway debut in ''Miss Prinnt''.<ref name="ibdb">{{cite web |title=Charlotte Walker |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/charlotte-walker-63786 |website=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |access-date=January 1, 2021 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20161216190311/https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/charlotte-walker-63786 |archive-date=December 16, 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref> She returned to the stage in 1901 and appeared with James A. Herne. She was a leading lady with James K. Hackett from 1901 to 1905. In 1907 she appeared in the Broadway hit ''The Warrens of Virginia'' whose cast also had Gladys Smith (later Mary Pickford) and Cecil B. DeMille. She appeared as June in ''Trail of the Lonesome Pine'', in 1911.<ref>''Great Actors and Actresses of the American Stage: In Historic Photographs'', p.43 #111 c.1983 edit. by Stanley Appelbaum..Retrieved August 8, 2018</ref> She would later reprise the role in Cecil B. DeMille's 1916 film ''Trail of the Lonesome Pine''. David Belasco noticed her in ''On Parole''. He signed her for starring roles in plays ''The Warrens of Virginia'', ''Just a Wife'', and ''Call The Doctor''. Each of the Belasco productions was staged prior to World War I.
She continued to act on the Broadway stage. In 1923 she played with Ethel Barrymore in ''The School For Scandal''. It was produced by the Player's Club.
==Films== Walker's motion picture career began in 1915 with ''Kindling'' and ''Out of the Darkness''. ''Sloth'' (1917) is a five-reeler which features Walker. In the third reel of this film she plays a youthful Dutch maid who is about sixteen years old. The setting is an old Dutch settlement on Staten Island, New York. The theme stresses the perils of indolence to a nation of people. It cautions against permitting luxury to replace the simple life led by America's forebears. In her later silent film work Walker can be seen in ''The Midnight Girl'' (1925) starring alongside a pre-''Dracula'' Bela Lugosi. ''The Midnight Girl'' is one of Walker's few silents that survives.
As a film actress Walker continued to perform in films into the early 1930s. Her later screen performances include roles in ''Lightnin<noinclude>'</noinclude>'' (1930), ''Millie'' (1931), ''Salvation Nell'' (1931), and ''Hotel Variety'' (1933).
==Personal life== {{Unreferenced section|date=February 2022}} Walker married her first husband, Dr. John B. Haden, on November 16, 1896, in New York City. With him she had two daughters, Beatrice Shelton Haden (born 1897) and Katherine Haden (b. 1899), who was known as the actress Sara Haden.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Johnson |first=Jan |title=Yellow Fever on Galveston Island |date=2022 |publisher=Arcadia Publishing Inc |isbn=978-1-4671-4655-5 |series=Disaster |location=Chicago}}</ref> After her divorce, she returned to the stage. Dr. Haden died in 1930. Her second husband, Eugene Walter, was a playwright who adapted the novel ''The Trail of the Lonesome Pine'' for the Broadway stage. The second marriage also ended in divorce in 1930.
Charlotte Walker died in 1958 at a hospital in Kerrville, Texas at age 81.
== Filmography== thumbnail|upright|''Pardners'' (1917) '''Silent''' {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |- | rowspan=2 | 1915 || ''Kindling'' || Maggie Schultz || Paramount Pictures |- | ''Out of the Darkness'' || Helen Scott || Paramount Pictures |- | 1916 || ''The Trail of the Lonesome Pine'' || June Tolliver || Paramount Pictures |- | rowspan=3 | 1917 || ''Pardners'' || Olive || Mutual Film <br /> '''Lost''' film |- | ''The Seventh Sin'' || Margaret Brent / Sally Wells / Molly Pitcher || Triangle Film Corporation |- | ''Mary Lawson's Secret'' || Mary Lawson || Pathé Exchange <br /> '''Lost''' film |- | rowspan=3 | 1918 || ''Just a Woman'' || Anna Ward || US Exhibitor's Booking Corporation <br /> '''Lost''' film |- | ''Men'' || Mrs. Burton || US Exhibitor's Booking Corporation <br /> '''Lost''' film |- | ''Every Mother's Son'' || An American Mother || Fox Film Corporation <br /> '''Lost''' film |- | 1919 || ''Eve in Exile'' || Eve Ricardo || Pathé Exchange |- | rowspan=3 | 1924 || ''The Lone Wolf'' || Clare Henshaw || Associated Exhibitors <br /> '''Lost''' film |- | ''The Sixth Commandment'' || Mrs. Calhoun || Associated Exhibitors <br /> '''Lost''' film |- | ''Classmates'' || Mrs. Stafford || First National <br /> '''Lost''' film |- | rowspan=3 | 1925 || ''The Mad Marriage'' || || Rosemary Films <br /> '''Lost''' film |- | ''The Midnight Girl'' || Mrs. Schuyler || Chadwick Pictures |- | ''The Manicure Girl'' || Mrs. Morgan || Paramount Pictures <br /> '''Lost''' film |- | rowspan=2 | 1926 || ''The Savage'' || Mrs. Atwater || First National <br /> '''Lost''' film |- | ''The Great Deception'' || Mrs. Mansfield || First National <br /> '''Lost''' film |- | 1927 || ''The Clown'' || || Columbia Pictures |- | 1928 || ''Annapolis'' || Aunt || Pathé Exchange |} '''Sound''' {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |- | rowspan=2 | 1929 || ''Paris Bound'' || Helen White || Pathé Exchange |- |''South Sea Rose'' || The Mother Superior || Fox Film Corporation <br /> '''Lost''' film |- | rowspan=4 | 1930 || ''Double Cross Roads'' || Mrs. Tilton || Fox Film Corporation |- |''Three Faces East'' || Catherine, Lady Chamberlain || First National |- |''Scarlet Pages'' || Mrs. Mason || First National |- |''Lightnin''' || Mrs. Thatcher || Fox Film Corporation |- | rowspan=2 | 1931 || ''Millie'' || Mrs Maitland || RKO |- |''Salvation Nell'' || Maggie || Tiffany Pictures |- | 1933 || ''Hotel Variety'' || || Capitol Film Exchange <br /> '''Lost''' film |- | 1937 || ''Scattergood Meets Broadway'' || || RKO |}
==References== ;Notes {{reflist}}
;Bibliography *''Janesville Daily Gazette'', Monday, October 23, 1916, Page 6. *''The New York Times'', "Charlotte Walker, Actress, Dies at 81; Star on Broadway in World War I Era".
==External links== {{Portal|Biography}} {{commons category|Charlotte Walker}} *{{IBDB name}} *{{IMDb name|0907608|Charlotte Walker}} *[http://www.moviecard.com/zamerican/theatre/favorite/fav-walker.jpg Broadway portrait of Walker circa 1910] *[https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/D0EAAOSwqfNXmmHB/s-l1600.jpg cover Charlotte Walker, cover THE THEATER magazine, June 1908] *{{Find a Grave|6914101}}
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