{{Short description|American actress (1902–1998)}} {{For|the children's book author|Elinor Whitney Field}} {{Use American English|date=December 2021}} {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2021}} {{Infobox person | name = Elinor Field | image = Elinor Field 1918 EH 2.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = Field in 1918 | birth_name = Eleanor Field | birth_date = {{Birth date|1902|01|04|mf=yes}} | birth_place = Plymouth, Pennsylvania, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|1998|02|24|1902|01|04|mf=yes}} | death_place = Chestertown, Maryland, U.S. | other_names = | occupation = Actress | years_active = 1917{{ndash}}1934 | spouse = | children = }}
'''Elinor Field''' (born '''Eleanor Field'''; January 4, 1902 – February 24, 1998)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xtCKDwAAQBAJ&q=%22elinor+field%22+1998&pg=PA1963|title=Slapstick Divas: The Women of Silent Comedy|first=Steve|last=Massa|publisher=BearManor Media|via=Google Books}}</ref> was an American film actress who was one of Mack Sennett's Sennett Bathing Beauties.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QivgDAAAQBAJ&q=elinor+field+jungle&pg=PA127|title=Col. William N. Selig, the Man Who Invented Hollywood|first=Andrew A.|last=Erish|date=March 1, 2012|publisher=University of Texas Press|isbn=9780292728707|via=Google Books}}</ref> She also starred in the 15-episode serial ''The Jungle Goddess'' (1922).<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vL_eCQAAQBAJ&q=elinor+field+jungle&pg=PA127|title=Serials and Series: A World Filmography, 1912-1956|first=Buck|last=Rainey|date=June 8, 2015|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9781476604480|via=Google Books}}</ref>
==Biography== Elinor Field was born on January 4, 1902, in Plymouth, Pennsylvania, USA, as '''Eleanor Field'''. She began acting straight out of high school. Although she appeared in more than thirty films, Field never became a major star.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f3e5ff8|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200711052011/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f3e5ff8|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 11, 2020|title=Elinor Field|website=BFI}}</ref> She died on February 24, 1998, in Chestertown, Maryland at the age of 96.
==Selected filmography== [[File:Hearts and Masks (1921) - 1.jpg|thumb|right|180px|Field (left) in comedy film ''Hearts and Masks'' (1921).]] [[File:The Blue Moon (1920) - 2.jpg|thumb|right|180px|Still from the American drama film ''The Blue Moon'' (1920) with Pell Trenton, Herbert Standing, and Elinor Field.]] thumb|right|180px|Advertisement for ''The Jungle Goddess'' (1922) *''The Pullman Bride'' (1917) as a Mack Sennett Bathing Beauty (uncredited) *''Are Waitresses Safe?'' (1917) uncredited *''How to be Happy Though Married'' (1919) *''The Blue Moon'' (1920) * ''The Kentucky Colonel'' (1920) *''Once to Every Woman'' (1920) as Virginia Meredith *''Hearts and Masks'' (1921) * ''Little Eva Ascends'' (1922) * ''The Purple Riders'' (1922) *''The Leather Pushers'' (1922) *''The Jungle Goddess'' (1922), a 15-episode serial *''Don Quickshot of the Rio Grande'' (1923), starring role *''Blinky'' (1923) as Priscilla Islip *''Single Handed'' (1923) as Ruth Randolph * ''The Red Warning'' (1923) as Louise Ainslee
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==External links== {{commons category}} * {{IMDb name|0275928}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Field, Elinor}} Category:1902 births Category:1998 deaths Category:American film actresses Category:American silent film actresses Category:20th-century American actresses