{{short description|American actress}}
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{{Infobox person | name = Edith Reeves | image = EdithReeves1916.png | caption = Reeves, from a 1916 publication | other_names = Peggy Tenbrook, Edith Lampe | occupation = Actress }}
'''Edith Reeves''' was an American silent film actress who also appeared on Broadway in the 1900s and 1910s. She sometimes used the stage name '''Peggy Tenbrook'''.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=1907-12-27 |title=Man of Hour Weds Quickly; Takes Him Just Fifty-Nine Minutes for Details and Ceremony |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/rockford-register-star-man-of-hour-weds/196673524/ |access-date=2026-05-01 |work=Rockford Register Star |pages=5 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
== Career == Reeves was from Auburn, New York.<ref name=":0" /> She was well known to American theater audiences, including appearances on Broadway and in vaudeville programs.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/article/marysville-journal-tribune-edith-reeves/196691218/ Edith Reeves Makes Her Triangle Debut], ''Marysville Evening Tribune'', January 16, 1917, pg. 4; via Newspapers.com</ref><ref name=":1">[https://www.google.com/books/edition/Moving_Picture_World_and_View_Photograph/1qgbAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Edith+Reeves&pg=PA448&printsec=frontcover "Edith Reeves"] ''Moving Picture World'' (April 15, 1916): 448.</ref> She was in the New York cast of ''Take My Advice'' in 1911 and 1912, co-written by and starring William Collier.<ref>[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1911/11/26/104883931.html?pageNumber=71 "Plays and Players"], ''The New York Times'', November 26, 1911, pg. X1.</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Hines |first=Dixie |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Who_s_who_in_Music_and_Drama/qts9AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Edith+Reeves%22+actress&pg=PA423&printsec=frontcover |title=Who's who in Music and Drama |last2=Hanaford |first2=Harry Prescott |date=1914 |publisher=H.P. Hanaford |pages=423 |language=en}}</ref> Reeves and her husband William Lampe toured in Ivy Ashton Root's "tabloid drama", ''One Flight Up,'' in 1913<ref>{{Cite news |date=1913-04-10 |title=Nelson Theater; William Fox's Vaudeville |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-republican-nelson-theater-william-f/196675646/ |access-date=2026-05-01 |work=The Republican |pages=10 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> and 1914.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1914-11-15 |title=Tabloid Drama Headliner on Majestic Bill |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/fort-worth-star-telegram-tabloid-drama-h/196674797/ |access-date=2026-05-01 |work=Fort Worth Star-Telegram |pages=29 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=1914-12-06 |title='One Flight Up' is Majestic Headliner |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/san-antonio-light-one-flight-up-is-maj/196675140/ |access-date=2026-05-01 |work=San Antonio Light |pages=25 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> She also had roles in George Ade's ''Just Out of College'' and ''The Man of the Hour.''<ref name=":1" />
''The Lost Secret'' (1915) featured Reeves in her second screen appearance, alongside Paul Gilmore.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1915-10-28 |title=Heuck's Opera House |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-cincinnati-post-heucks-opera-house/196691678/ |access-date=2026-05-01 |work=The Cincinnati Post |pages=4 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> She teamed with Frank Mills and Howard Hickman in ''The Moral Fabric'' (1916), directed by Thomas H. Ince. Reeves plays a wife who is bored with her traditional husband and becomes attracted to a cult of free love.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite news |date=1916-04-17 |title='The Moral Fabric'; The Hippodrome Shows New Triangle Feature First Part of Week |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/fort-worth-record-telegram-the-moral-fa/196674557/ |access-date=2026-05-01 |work=Fort Worth Record-Telegram |pages=6 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Her last film role was ''Ruth'' in ''The Song of the Soul'' (1918), directed by Tom Terriss and co-starring Alice Joyce. Percy Standing, and Walter McGrall.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=December 29, 1917 |title=Alice Joyce Film |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Dramatic_Mirror_of_Motion_Pictures_and_t/emxDAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Edith%20Reeves%22%20actress&pg=RA25-PA13&printsec=frontcover |journal=The Dramatic Mirror |volume=77 |issue=2036 |pages=13}}</ref>
In 1920, Reeves and her husband presented ''One Flight Up'' in vaudeville programs again.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1920-02-12 |title=Fine Bill at Academy |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/ledger-star-fine-bill-at-academy/196673752/ |access-date=2026-05-01 |work=Ledger-Star |pages=5 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=1920-03-18 |title=Three Days of Fun and Song at Princess |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-tennessean-three-days-of-fun-and-son/196675276/ |access-date=2026-05-01 |work=The Tennessean |pages=10 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
== Filmography ==
* ''The Chaperon'' (1912) * ''The Lost Secret'' (1915) * ''A Gentleman's Agreement'' (1915)<ref>{{Cite journal |date=July 1915 |title=Balboa Company Making Big Extensions |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Movie_Magazine/HHRJAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Edith%20Reeves%22%20actress&pg=RA4-PA33&printsec=frontcover |journal=The Movie Magazine |volume=1 |issue=5 |pages=33}}</ref> * ''The Moral Fabric'' (1916)<ref name=":1" /> * ''The Hoyden'' (1916)<ref>{{Cite journal |date=April 15, 1916 |title=Stories of the Films: The Hoyden |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Moving_Picture_World_and_View_Photograph/1qgbAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Edith%20Reeves&pg=PA497&printsec=frontcover |journal=The Moving Picture World |pages=497}}</ref> * ''The Painted Madonna'' (1917)<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Painted Madonna (1917) |url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/15779-THE-PAINTEDMADONNA?sid=e45873b0-b843-46fb-87fb-764d24e7d465&sr=0.1693466&cp=1&pos=1 |access-date=2026-05-01 |website=AFI Catalog}}</ref> * ''The Song of the Soul'' (1918)<ref>{{Cite journal |date=November 16-23, 1918 |title=Right Off the Reel: 'The Song of the Soul' |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Pictures_and_Picturegoer/F3ZIAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Edith%20Reeves%22%20actress&pg=PA492&printsec=frontcover |journal=Pictures and Picturegoer |volume=15 |issue=249 |pages=492}}</ref>
== Personal life == Reeves married fellow actor William Lampe in 1907.<ref name=":0" /> They had a son, William, born in Philadelphia in 1908.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1978-08-14 |title=Obituary for William C. Lampe |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-ann-arbor-news-obituary-for-william/196675410/ |access-date=2026-05-01 |work=The Ann Arbor News |pages=29 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
== External links ==
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Reeves, Edith}} Category:American stage actresses Category:American film actresses Category:American silent film actresses Category:American vaudeville performers Category:American Quakers Category:Year of death missing Category:Year of birth missing Category:20th-century American actresses