{{Short description|American actress (1889–1982)}} {{Infobox person | name = Goldie Colwell | birth_name = Goldie Frances Colwell | birth_date = January 29, 1889 | birth_place = Tecumseh, Kansas, USA | death_date = July 27, 1982 | death_place = Los Angeles, California, USA | occupation = Actress | spouse = {{plainlist| * George Diegel * Kenneth Harrell }} | relatives = Vivien Fay (niece) }}
'''Goldie Colwell'''(1889-1982) was an American film actress and journalist who starred in more than 80 films during Hollywood's silent era.<ref>{{Cite web|date=23 Sep 1915|title=Her Hobby Is Butterflies|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/50325697/?terms=%22Goldie%20Colwell%22&match=1|access-date=2021-12-31|website=Santa Cruz Evening News|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|date=30 Aug 1924|title=Goldie Frances Colwell Becomes Magazine Editor|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/623112157/?terms=%22Goldie%20Colwell%22&match=1|access-date=2021-12-31|website=The Bulletin|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=27 Sep 1914|title=Movie Flashes|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/441003300/?terms=%22Goldie%20Colwell%22&match=1|access-date=2021-12-31|website=The Buffalo Times|language=en}}</ref> She was Tom Mix's leading lady in many Selig westerns.<ref>{{Cite web|date=16 Jun 1914|title=Off the Reel|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/608029907/?terms=%22Goldie%20Colwell%22&match=1|access-date=2021-12-31|website=Los Angeles Evening Express|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=1 Nov 1914|title=Gossip of the Movies|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/606159427/?terms=%22Goldie%20Colwell%22&match=1|access-date=2021-12-31|website=The Birmingham News|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|date=1 Nov 1916|title=Rides "Outlaws" for Movies|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/143969447/?terms=%22Goldie%20Coldwell%22&match=1|access-date=2021-12-31|website=The Pittsburgh Press|language=en}}</ref>
== Biography == Goldie was born in Tecumseh, Kansas, to John Colwell and Celia Pearson.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2">{{Cite web|date=18 Mar 1953|title=Mrs. Celia Belle Barnes Dies at Venice Home|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/701159223/?terms=%22Goldie%20Harrell%22&match=1|access-date=2021-12-31|website=Evening Vanguard|language=en}}</ref> The family eventually relocated to Los Angeles, where Goldie began working as an actress around 1911; her first credited role was in Joseph A. Golden and Tom Mix's ''Why the Sheriff Is a Bachelor''.
She was employed at Selig as Tom Mix's leading lady in dozens of westerns before heading to David Horsley's Centaur Film Company, where she continued to take on starring roles.<ref>{{Cite web|date=11 Nov 1915|title=Goldie Colwell in Centaur Features|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/57046603/?terms=%22Goldie%20Colwell%22&match=1|access-date=2021-12-31|website=Altoona Tribune|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JnhJAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22goldie+coldwell%22&pg=PA893|title=Motography|date=1915|language=en}}</ref>
After retiring from acting around 1919, she became a magazine editor, heading up a new publication called ''The Spotlight''.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|date=1 Jul 1923|title=Literary Abilities Recognized|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/622993135/?terms=%22Goldie%20Colwell%22&match=1|access-date=2021-12-31|website=The Bulletin|language=en}}</ref> She also wrote for ''The Pomona Bulletin'' and ''The Santa Ana Daily News.''<ref name=":0" />
After her first husband, George Diegel, died in 1933, she married Kenneth Harrell in 1935. Her niece, Vivien Fay, was an actress, dancer, and sculptor.<ref name=":2" />
== Selected filmography ==
* ''The Railroader'' (1919) * ''Code of the Yukon'' (1918) * ''Jerry and the Vampire'' (1917) * ''The Heart of Texas Ryan'' (1917) * ''The Yaqui'' (1916) * ''The Adventures of Kathlyn'' (1916) * ''When Avarice Rules'' (1915) * ''The Little Detective'' (1915) * ''Taking a Chance'' (1915) * ''A Change of Luck'' (1915) * ''The Oriental Spasm'' (1915) * ''The Treasure Box'' (1915) * ''The Knockout'' (1915) * ''He's in Again'' (1915) * ''Ma's Girls'' (1915) * ''Sage Brush Tom'' (1915) * ''Cactus Jake, Heart-Breaker'' (1914) * ''The Scapegoat'' (1914) * ''The Ranger's Romance'' (1914) * ''Why the Sheriff Is a Bachelor'' (1914) * ''Carmelita's Revenge'' (1914) * ''The Cruel Crown'' (1914) * ''The Adventures of Kathlyn'' (1913) * ''Our Lady of the Pearls'' (1912) *''Why the Sheriff Is a Bachelor'' (1911)
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==External links== *[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0173459/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1 Goldie Colwell] IMDb
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