{{Short description|American actress (1894–1958)}} {{Use American English|date=September 2021}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2021}} {{Infobox person | name = Edith Taliaferro | image = Edith Taliaferro, juvenile stage actress (SAYRE 8967).jpg | image_size = | alt = Edith Taliaferro, juvenile stage actress | caption = Taliaferro in 1907 | birth_name = Laura Edith Taliaferro | birth_date = {{Birth date|1891|12|21|mf=yes}} | birth_place = Manhattan, New York, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|1958|03|02|1891|12|21|mf=yes}} | death_place = Newtown, Connecticut, U.S. | death_cause = | resting_place = | occupation = Actress | years_active = 1896–1935 | spouse = {{plainlist| * Earl Browne (divorced) * {{marriage|House B. Jameson|1928}} }} | parents = Anna Taliaferro | relatives = Mabel Taliaferro (sister)<br>Bessie Barriscale (cousin) }}
'''Edith Taliaferro''' (December 21, 1891 – March 2, 1958) was an American stage and film actress of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She was active on the stage until 1935 and had roles in three silent films. She is best known for portraying the role of Rebecca in the 1910 stage production of ''Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm''.
==Early life and family== Laura Edith Taliaferro<ref group=fn>The surname is pronounced like "Tolliver" in English.</ref> was born in Manhattan, the daughter of Anna Barriscale Taliaferro and Robert A. Taliaferro.{{refn|Many sources list a birthdate of 1894 and birthplace of Richmond, Virginia for Edith Taliaferro, but are contradicted by her christening document, which gives these details and her parentage.<ref name="nyepd">New York, U.S., Episcopal Diocese of New York Church Records, 1767-1970 for Annie Barriscale, Manhattan, Ascension Memorial Church, 1889-1917, retrieved from Ancestry.com</ref>|group=fn}} She was the younger sister of Mabel Taliaferro who also became a stage actress, and the cousin of actress Bessie Barriscale.<ref>{{cite book|last=Hischak|first=Thomas S.|title=Enter the Players: New York Stage Actors in the Twentieth Century|year=2003|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=0-810-84761-2|page=304}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Lowe|first=Denise|title=An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Women in Early American Films: 1895-1930|year=2014|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-71896-3|page=1865}}</ref> Her paternal ancestors were originally from England, of remote Italian descent (from the 1500s). They were one of the families who settled in Virginia in the 17th century.<ref name="ItalianTribune">{{cite web |title=Women in History Month |url=https://italiantribune.com/women-in-history-month-4/ |website=ItalianTribune.com |date=12 March 2020 |access-date=2 September 2023}}</ref>
==Career==
===Early years=== [[File:Edith Taliaferro 1.jpg|left|upright|thumb|Taliaferro in ''Metropolitan Magazine'', January 1899]] Edith Taliaferro began her stage career by temporarily replacing her ailing sister Mabel in Katie Emmett's Company during August 1895.<ref name="ht083095">{{cite news |title=Amusements |work=Harrisburg Telegraph |date=August 30, 1895 |location=Harrisburg, Pennsylvania |page=4 |via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> She impressed everyone by knowing her sister's songs and lines by heart, having seen Mabel perform so often.<ref name="cc050297">{{cite news |title=Gossip of the Foyers |work=Chicago Chronicle |date=May 2, 1897 |location=Chicago, Illinois |page=21 |via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> She then had the good fortune to win a role with James A. Herne in his ''Shore Acres'' touring company during October 1895.<ref name="su100895">{{cite news |title=The Playhouses |work=The Standard Union |date=October 8, 1895 |location=Brooklyn, New York |page=6 |via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> It was rumored that she obtained the part because her sister Mabel was too old to depict the character.<ref>{{cite news|title=Star Dust|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/182455504/?terms=%22Edith%20Taliaferro%22%20%22shore%20acres%22&match=1|newspaper=Star Tribune|date=March 27, 1927|page=46|access-date=September 2, 2023}}</ref> Her Broadway debut came in 1900 with the play ''The Sunken Bell''.<ref name="BroadwayWorldEdith">{{cite web |title=Edith Taliaferro |url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Edith-Taliaferro/ |website=BroadwayWorld |access-date=2 September 2023}}</ref>
Newspapers reported during June 1904 that Taliaferro was signed to a personal contract and paid $100 per week by George C. Tyler of Liebler & Company.<ref name="wd060404">{{cite news |title=Theatrical Chatter |work=The Waterbury Democrat |date=June 4, 1904 |location=Waterbury, Connecticut |page=7 |via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> She signed a contract for the following season to appear with Ezra Kendall. She was the youngest Shakesperean actress on the stage. She portrayed Puck in a Ben Greet production of ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' before an audience at Princeton University in May 1904.<ref name="ItalianTribune" /> She was lauded by professors there, and they sent her a Princeton University flag and pin. By then, she had performed in six to eight juvenile roles after her professional debut. When she returned to New York, Taliaferro appeared with Clara Bloodgood in ''The Girl with the Green Eyes''.<ref name="BroadwayWorldGreenEyes">{{cite web |title=The Girl with the Green Eyes Broadway Original Cast |url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/shows/The-Girl-with-the-Green-Eyes-317778/cast |website=BroadwayWorld |access-date=2 September 2023}}</ref>
thumb|upright|left|Edith Taliaferro (right), with her sister Mabel in 1913.
In 1907, Frederic Thompson produced ''Polly of the Circus'', written by Margaret Mayo, for his new wife Mabel Taliaferro, and at times during its run, Edith took on the lead role of the youthful circus rider in her sister's place.<ref>Munsey's Magazine - Volume 39 - 1908, Page 846</ref>
She is most noted for her 1910 performance in ''Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm''.<ref>Munsey's Magazine - Volume 4 - 1913, Page 560</ref> It was staged at the Republic Theater, 209 West 42nd Street. Her other successful theatrical performances include roles in ''Young Wisdom'' (1914), ''Tipping The Winner'' (1914), and ''Mother Carey's Chickens'' (1917).<ref name="BroadwayWorldEdith" />
===Films, later career and retirement=== thumb|upright|Edith Taliaferro age 17
Taliaferro made her silent film debut in ''Young Romance'' in 1915.<ref name="Century">{{cite web |title=Young Romance (1915) |url=https://centuryfilmproject.org/tag/edith-taliaferro/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211130221359/https://centuryfilmproject.org/tag/edith-taliaferro/ |url-status=usurped |archive-date=November 30, 2021 |website=CenturyFilmProject.org |publisher=Century Film Project |date=20 June 2015 |access-date=2 September 2023}}</ref> She made only two more films, ''The Conquest of Canaan'' (1916) and ''Who's Your Brother?'' (1919). She returned to Broadway in 1919 in ''Please Get Married'' followed by roles in ''Kissing Time'' (1920), ''A Love Scandal'' (1923), and as "Amanda Prynne" in the touring company production of ''Private Lives'' in 1931.<ref>{{cite news|last=Gaines|first=William|title=Sidelights In New York|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2202&dat=19310720&id=DLMlAAAAIBAJ&pg=1030,6427558|newspaper=Gettysburg Times|date=July 20, 1931|page=6}}</ref> She performed in London, England and in Australia with the Toronto Theatre Guild. In vaudeville she appeared at the Palace Theater in New York City. Most of her later work was with summer theaters and on radio. Taliaferro retired from stage work in the late 1930s after she lost her vision.<ref>{{cite news|title="Rebecca" Dies|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1314&dat=19580302&id=OH4SAAAAIBAJ&pg=5756,1167710|newspaper=The Spokesman-Review|date=March 2, 1958|page=15}}</ref>
==Personal life== thumb|upright=0.50|Earle Browne 1912 Taliaferro married actor Earle Browne on June 4, 1912, in York, Ontario,<ref name="ocml">Thomas Earle Browne in the Ontario, Canada, Marriages, 1826-1940, retrieved from Ancestry.com</ref> where he was appearing in ''A Night Off'' at the Royal Alexandria Theatre in Toronto.<ref name="ts060812">{{cite news |title=Earle Browne |work=The Toronto Star |date=June 8, 1912 |location=Toronto, Ontario |page=8 |via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> The marriage was public knowledge by May 1913.<ref name="dc051113">{{cite news |title=Dramatic Drift |work=Democrat and Chronicle |date=May 11, 1913 |location=Rochester, New York |page=27 |via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> Taliaferro's second husband was actor House B. Jameson, whom she married around 1928.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1953/03/14/page/36/article/father-aldrich-in-harem-class-has-4-tv-wives|title=Father Aldrich In Harem Class; Has 4 TV Wives|last=Wolters|first=Larry|date=March 14, 1953}}</ref> Jameson appeared in various stage productions and later became known for his role as Sam "Papa" Aldrich on the radio and television series ''The Aldrich Family''.<ref>{{cite news|last=Oliver|first=Wayne|title=The Lone Ranger Gallops Into Third Decade This Week|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2506&dat=19530125&id=8Ms8AAAAIBAJ&pg=4510,6022266|newspaper=The News and Courier|date=January 25, 1953|page=10–D}}</ref> The couple had no children and remained married until Taliaferro's death.<ref name=daytona>{{cite news|title=Edith Taliaferro|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1873&dat=19580303&id=K5soAAAAIBAJ&pg=7064,495187|newspaper=Daytona Beach Morning Journal|date=March 3, 1958|page=3}}</ref>
==Death== On March 2, 1958, Edith Taliaferro died at age 63 from undisclosed causes at her home in Newtown, Connecticut.<ref name=daytona/>
==Stage performances== {| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="font-size: 90%" |+ By year of Edith Taliaferro's first performance in the work |- ! scope="col" | Year ! scope="col" | Play ! scope="col" | Role ! scope="col" | Venue ! scope="col" | Notes |- |1896 |''Shore Acres'' | Millie Berry | Touring company | Two newspapers reported her as being 4-years-old during this production, in contrast to later secondary sources which claimed she was only two.<ref name="cc021696">{{cite news |title="Shore Acres" Is Welcome |work=The Chicago Chronicle |date=February 16, 1896 |location=Chicago, Illinois |page=18 |via = Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref name="bg042696">{{cite news |title=Foyer and Green Room Gossip |work=The Boston Globe |date=April 26, 1896 |location=Boston, Massachusetts |page=18 |via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> |- |1900 |''The Sunken Bell'' | Second Boy | Knickerbocker Theatre | This was an English translation by a "Mr. Meltzer", that starred E. H. Sothern and Virginia Harned.<ref name="nyt032700">{{cite news |last= |first= |title=Dramatic and Musical |work=The New York Times |date=March 27, 1900 |location=New York, New York |page=7 |via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> |- |1901 | ''The Bonnie Brier Bush'' | Jeannie | Touring company/Theatre Republic | Loosely adapted from Ian Maclaren's ''Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush''.<ref name="et082701">{{cite news |title=Music and Drama |work=Boston Evening Transcript |date=August 27, 1901 |location=Boston, Massachusetts |page=9 |via = Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref name="tr092201">{{cite news |title=The Bonnie Brier Bush |work=New-York Tribune |date=September 22, 1901 |location=New York, New York |page=42 |via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> |- |1902 | ''The Girl with the Green Eyes'' | Susie | Savoy Theatre/Touring Company | Taliaferro is a "slangy little sister" to Clara Bloodgood, in this play written by Clyde Fitch.<ref name="tr122102">{{cite news |title=Theatrical Incidents and News Notes |work=New-York Tribune |date=December 21, 1902 |location= |page=15 |via = Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref name="rep111703">{{cite news |title=Clap-Trap and Some Fun In The New Olympic Play |work=The Republic |date=November 17, 1903 |location=St. Louis, Missouri |page=7 |via = Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref name="ce011004">{{cite news |title=The Olio |work=The Cincinnati Enquirer |date=January 10, 1904 |location=Cincinnati, Ohio |page=21 |via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> |- |rowspan=4|1904 | ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'' | Eva | Chestnut Street Opera House | <ref name="nj042804">{{cite news |title=Plays and Play People |work=News-Journal |date=April 28, 1904 |location=Mansfield, Ohio |page=5 |via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> |- | ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' | Puck | Princeton University | An outdoor one-night Ben Greet production, it would also play other universities.<ref name="nyt052404">{{cite news |title=Ten Years Old; $100 a Week |work=The New York Times |date=May 24, 1904 |location=New York, New York |page=9 |via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> |- | ''Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch'' | Australia Wiggs | Grand Opera House | She took Edith Storey's place temporarily, from July 10 thru August 6.<ref name="ct071104">{{cite news |title=News of the Theaters |work=Chicago Tribune |date=July 11, 1904 |location=Chicago, Illinois |page=6 |via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> |- | ''Weatherbeaten Benson'' | Little Miss Moses | Touring company | Liebler & Company three-act comedy by Ezra Kendall who also starred in it.<ref name="pi090204">{{cite news |title=Weatherbeaten Benson |work=The Philadelphia Inquirer |date=September 2, 1904 |location=Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |page=4 |via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> |- |1906 | ''Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch'' | Lovey Mary | New York Theatre/Touring company | This revival played three weeks on Broadway then went on tour.<ref name="bde091806">{{cite news |title=In Manhattan |work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle |date=September 18, 1906 |location=Brooklyn, New York |page=24 |via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> |- |rowspan=2|1907 | ''The Evangelist''<ref group=fn>The first tryouts were given as ''The Galilean's Victory''; by the time the play reached Broadway the title had been changed.</ref> | Ione Nuneham | Knickerbocker Theatre | Taliaferro played a "precocious child".<ref name="nyt100107">{{cite news |title=Discursive Play By Henry Arthur Jones |work=The New York Times |date=October 1, 1907 |location=New York, New York |page=11 |via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> This was made into a 1916 silent film. |- | ''Marta of the Lowlands'' | Muri | Touring company | This starred Bertha Kalich,<ref name="bce111007">{{cite news |title=Plays for This Week |work=Buffalo Courier Express |date=November 10, 1907 |location=Buffalo, New York |page=34 |via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> who later reprised her role in a 1914 silent film. |- |rowspan=3|1908 | ''Polly of the Circus'' | Polly | Liberty Theatre | Although the play debuted in 1907, Edith Taliaferro didn't start subbing for her sister Mabel until February 1908.<ref name="bde021908">{{cite news |title=Gossip of the Stage |work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle |date=February 19, 1908 |location=Brooklyn, New York |page=20 |via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> |- | ''Brewster's Millions'' | Peggy Gray | McVicker's Theater | Chicago reviewer Charles W. Collins gave a profile of her family<ref name="io051008">{{cite news |last=Collins |first=Charles W. |title=Edith and Her Kinfolk |work=The Inter Ocean |date=May 10, 1908 |location=Chicago, Illinois |page=43 |via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> and mentioned she "wasn't more than 17 or 18".<ref name="io051308">{{cite news |last=Collins |first=Charles W. |title=Brewster's Millions |work=The Inter Ocean |date=May 13, 1908 |location=Chicago, Illinois |page=6 |via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> |- | ''Polly of the Circus'' | Polly | Touring company | She led the second company but had to replace her sister Mabel in the first due to appendicitis.<ref name="dc111508">{{cite news |title=Actress Goes Under Knife |work=Democrat and Chronicle |date=November 15, 1908 |location=Rochester, New York |page=12 |via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> |- |1910 | ''Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm'' | Rebecca | Touring company/Republic Theatre | The play debuted at the Tremont Theatre,<ref name="bg010410">{{cite news |title=New England Types Brightly Pictured |work=The Boston Globe |date=January 4, 1910 |location=Boston, Massachusetts |page=4 |via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> then toured until its Broadway premiere in October.<ref name="nyt100410">{{cite news |title=The Heart of a Child in This Tender Play |work=The New York Times |date=October 4, 1910 |location=New York, New York |page=11 |via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> |- |rowspan=2|1914 | ''Young Wisdom'' | Gail Claffenden | Criterion Theatre/Touring company | The Taliaferro sisters had joint top billing in this three-act comedy satire by Rachel Crothers.<ref name="nyt010414">{{cite news |title=Criterion (ad) |work=The New York Times |date=January 4, 1914 |location=New York, New York |page=77 |via = Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref name="nyt010614">{{cite news |title=Charming Comedy Is 'Young Wisdom' |work=The New York Times |date=January 6, 1914 |location=New York, New York |page=6 |via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> |- | ''Tipping the Winner'' | Dorothy Gay | Longacre Theatre | Taliaferro had top billing in this comedy by George Rollit,<ref name="bde092014">{{cite news |title=Longacre (ad) |work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle |date=September 20, 1914 |location=Brooklyn, New York |page=43 |via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> described as an English "racing farce" in three acts, adapted by Richard Norton.<ref name="bde092614">{{cite news |title=Longacre Theater Has a Racing Farce |work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle |date=September 26, 1914 |location=Brooklyn, New York |page=43 |via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> |- |1915 | ''A Breath of Old Virginia'' | Mary Davis | Palace Theatre | Taliaferro's first vaudeville appearance was this one-act play set during the Civil War.<ref name="bde030215">{{cite news |title=Calve at the Palace |work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle |date=March 2, 1915 |location=Brooklyn, New York |page=13 |via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> |- |1916 | ''Captain Kidd, Jr.'' | Mary MacTavish | Cohan & Harris Theatre | Called ''Buried Treasure'' during tryouts, this Rida Johnson Young three-act comedy was made into a 1919 silent film.<ref name="ts111416">{{cite news |title="Capt. Kidd, Jr." Has One Hilarious Act |work=The Sun |date=November 14, 1916 |location=New York, New York |page=4 |via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> |- |1917 | ''Mother Carey's Chickens'' | Nancy Carey | Touring company/Cort Theater | John Cort production based on the 1911 novel by Kate Douglas Wiggin with dramatic help from Rachel Crothers.<ref name="ts092617">{{cite news |title=Edith Taliaferro a John Cort Star |work=The Sun |date=September 26, 1917 |location=New York, New York |page=7 |via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> |- |1918 | ''The Best Sellers''<ref group=fn>Written by Kenneth and Roy Webb, this was one of five playlets presented by Actors and Authors, Inc. during June 1918.</ref> | Queen Wilhelmina/Lady Clare/Faro Kate | Fulton Theatre | Taliaferro plays three damsels rescued in three "books" (scenes) of this one-act satire of popular romances.<ref name="bde061118">{{cite news |title=Actors and Authors in Five Short Plays |work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle |date=June 11, 1918 |location=Brooklyn, New York |page=19 |via = Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref name="su061218">{{cite news |title=Amusements |work=The Standard UNion |date=June 12, 1915 |location=Brooklyn, New York |page=6 |via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> |- |1919 | ''Please Get Married'' | Muriel Ashley | Little Theatre | Taliaferro was second billed to Ernest Truex in this farce, which was made into a silent film that same year.<ref name="ts021019">{{cite news |title=Ernest Truex Is Star In New Farce |work=The Sun |date=February 10, 1919 |location=New York, New York |page=7 |via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> |- |1920 | ''Kissing Time'' | Clarice | Lyric Theatre | Taliaferro shared lead billing with William Norris in this updated two-act musical revival.<ref name="nyh101220">{{cite news |title="Kissing Time" Is Lively With Fun |work=The New York Herald |date=October 12, 1920 |location=New York, New York |page=9 |via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> |- |rowspan=2|1923 | ''Fashions of 1924'' | Neil Barton | Lyceum Theatre | Nunnally Johnson panned this musical revue as a "dressmaker's show", disparaging the songs and lyrics.<ref name="bde071923">{{cite news |last=Johnson |first=Nunally |title=The New Plays |work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle |date=July 19, 1923 |location=Brooklyn, New York |page=6 |via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> |- | ''A Love Scandal'' | Bettina Tilton | Comedy Theatre | Taliaferro had lead billing at first tryout,<ref name="sg110123">{{cite news |title=Lyceum (ad) |work=Star-Gazette |date=November 1, 1923 |location=Elmira, New York |page=22 |via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> but was demoted to distant second billing to Norman Trevor on Broadway.<ref name="dn111923">{{cite news |title=A Love Scandal (ad) |work=Daily News |date=November 19, 1923 |location=New York, New York |page=50 |via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> |- |1924 | ''Tarnish'' | Tishy | Majestic Theatre | Brooklyn revival of 1923 Broadway drama by Gilbert Emery had already been released as a silent film.<ref name="bc091624">{{cite news |title="Tarnish" Is Offered at the Majestic Theatre |work=The Brooklyn Citizen |date=September 16, 1924 |location=Brooklyn, New York |page=9 |via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> |- |1925 | ''The Bride Retires!''<ref group=fn>IBDb has this without the exclamation point, which contemporaneous newspapers used.</ref> | Raymonde | National Theatre | Taliaferro took over the female lead for the September reopening of this comedy.<ref name="dn090225">{{cite news |title=Tonight Edith Taliaferro The Bride Retires! (ad) |work=Daily News |date=September 2, 1925 |location=New York, New York |page=26 |via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> |- |1930 | (Various stock plays) | (Misc roles) | Touring Company | Taliaferro and her husband House Jameson performed six plays in Sydney and Melbourne with their own stock company.<ref name="vdt010231">{{cite news |title=Mistaken For Movie Star |work=The Victoria Daily Times |date=January 2, 1931 |location=Victoria, British Columbia |page=15 |via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> |- |rowspan=3|1931 | ''Dishonored Lady'' | Madeline Cary | Touring company | Taliaferro joined the Bainbridge Players to star in two week-long productions in various cities.<ref name="ms042531">{{cite news |title=Edith Taliaferro Shubert's Star in 'Dishonored Lady' |work=The Minneapolis Star |date=April 25, 1931 |location=Minneapolis, Minnesota |page=24 |via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> |- | ''Peg o' My Heart'' | Peg | Touring company | Another stock play performed by the Bainbridge Players.<ref name="ms050231">{{cite news |title=Edith Taliaferro to Star in 'Peg o' My Heart' at Shubert |work=The Minneapolis Star |date=May 2, 1931 |location=Minneapolis, Minnesota |page=25 |via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> |- | ''Private Lives'' | Amanda Prynne | Touring company | Taliaferro led the second of four touring companies for this Broadway hit.<ref name="dn070631">{{cite news |title=Theatre Notes |work=Daily News |date=July 6, 1925 |location=New York, New York |page=357 |via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> |- |1935 | ''The Hook-Up'' | Mary Bainbridge | Cort Theatre | A satirical farce on radio advertising; Taliaferro plays the sweet colleague whom Ernest Truex really loves.<ref name="bde050935">{{cite news |last=Pollock |first=Arthur |title=The Theater |work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle |date=May 9, 1935 |location=Brooklyn, New York |page=27 |via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> |}
==Filmography== {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |- | 1915 | ''Young Romance'' | Nellie Nolan | |- | 1916 | ''The Conquest of Canaan'' | Ariel Tabor | |- | 1919 | ''Who's Your Brother?'' | Esther Field | Alternative title: ''Keep [It] to the Right''.<ref>See photograph at http://www.shorpy.com/node/13082 which omits "It"</ref> |- |}
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==Bibliography== *{{cite news| work=Mansfield News |title=Theater Talk |date=April 16, 1909 |page=7}} *{{cite news| work=The New York Times |title=Theatres |date=October 10, 1897 |page=5}} *{{cite news| work=The New York Times |title=Ten Years Old; $100 A Week |date=May 24, 1904 |page=9}} *{{cite news| work=The New York Times |title=Edith Taliaferro Of Stage, Was 64 |date=March 3, 1958 |page=27}} *{{cite news| work=Syracuse Herald-Journal |title=Wieting-Polly of the Circus |date=November 15, 1908 |page=30}}
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