{{short description|American actress (1898–1958)}} {{use mdy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Isabel Lamon | image = IsabelLamon1913.jpg | alt = A young white woman, wearing a striped or pleated dress with a scoop neckline. | caption = Isabel Lamon, from a 1913 publication. | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> | birth_date = December 1898 | birth_place = Chicago, Illinois, U.S. | death_date = 1958 (aged 59–60) | death_place = | other_names = Isabel Baring, Isabelle Lamon, Isabel Hough | occupation = actress | years_active = | known_for = silent films | notable_works = }}
'''Isabel Lamon''' (December 1898 – 1958), also billed as '''Isabel Baring'',''''' was an American actress in silent films. Among many roles, she played Meg March in the second filmed adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's ''Little Women.''
== Early life == Isabel Lamon was born in Chicago, the daughter of Lauren G. Lamon and Mathilde Hoffelt.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/arecorddescenda00wriggoog|quote=Isabel Lamon.|title=A Record of the Descendants of Isaac Ross and Jean Brown: And the Allied Families of Alexander, Conger, Harris, Hill, King, Killingworth, Mackey, Moores, Sims, Wade, Etc|last=Wright|first=Annie Julia Mims 'Mrs W. R. Wright'|date=1911|publisher=Consumers Stationery and Printing Company|pages=[https://archive.org/details/arecorddescenda00wriggoog/page/n199 117]|language=en}}</ref> Her mother was better known as silent film actress Mathilde Baring of Louisiana.{{Citation needed |date=April 2022}}
== Career == Lamon appeared in more than 30 short silent films between 1911 and 1918, including ''The Scandal Mongers'' (1911), ''Unmerited Shame'' (1912), ''It Pays to be Kind'' (1912), ''The Legend of Sleepy Hollow'' (1912), ''Saved from the Titanic'' (1912), ''The Holy City'' (1912), ''A Double Misunderstanding'' (1912), ''That Loving Man'' (1912), ''Wanted a Wife in a Hurry'' (1912), ''Robin Hood'' (1912),<ref>{{Cite journal|date=August 3, 1912|title=Eclair Production of Robin Hood|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-yNJAQAAMAAJ&q=Isabel%20Lamon&pg=RA4-PA11|journal=The Moving Picture News|volume=6|page=11}}</ref> ''Dolls'' (1912), ''The Passing Parade'' (1912), ''The Lucky Loser'' (1912), ''A Choice by Accident'' (1912), ''Caprice of Fortune'' (1912), ''Making Uncle Jealous'' (1912), ''Just Out of College'' (1913), ''It Might Have Been'' (1913), ''Quarantined'' (1913), ''What's In a Name?'' (1913), ''Keeping Up Appearances'' (1913), ''The Miser'' (1913), ''The Higher Duty'' (1913), ''The Supreme Sacrifice'' (1913), ''Jane's Waterloo'' (1913), ''For His Child's Sake'' (1913), ''Diamond Cut Diamond'' (1913), ''Through Many Trials'' (1913), ''Longing for Mother'' (1913), ''Violet Dare, Detective'' (1913), ''A Father's Love'' (1913), ''The Other Woman'' (1913), ''Dick's Turning'' (1913), ''The Wager'' (1913), ''The Strange Way'' (1913), ''The Exile'' (1913),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mc3betzwood.wordpress.com/betzwood-films/the-exile/|title=The Exile|date=2012-02-23|website=Betzwood Film Archive|language=en|access-date=2019-08-21}}</ref> ''The Matinee Girl'' (1918),<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/35129192/isabel_lamon_1918/|title=Grand|date=March 23, 1918|work=Reno Gazette-Journal|access-date=August 21, 2019|page=14|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> ''The Face in the Dark'' (1918), and ''Little Women'' (1918). In eight of her films, her mother was also in the cast.
On stage, Lamon appeared in Broadway productions including ''Sam Houston'' (1906), when she was a child,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/35131607/isabel_lamon_1909/|title=Child Actor Brings 2 Fines|date=July 17, 1909|work=Chicago Tribune|access-date=August 21, 2019|page=9|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> ''Forever After'' (1918–1919),<ref>{{Cite news|title=And Still the New Plays Come|last=Allen|first=Eugene Kelcey|date=September 7, 1918|work=Women's Wear Daily|page=10|id={{ProQuest|<!--ProQuest data goes here--> }}}}</ref> ''The Advertising of Kate'' (1922), ''Aren't We All?'' (1924–1925),<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/35131723/isabel_lamon_1924/|title=Werba's Brooklyn|date=December 23, 1924|work=Times Union|access-date=August 21, 2019|page=30|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> ''Love in the Tropics'' (1927), ''Gambling'' (1929), ''The Tavern'' (1930), ''The Song and Dance Man'' (1930),<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/35131876/isabel_baring_1930/|title=Cohan Revives 'Song and Dance Man'|date=June 18, 1930|work=Daily News|access-date=August 21, 2019|page=78|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> ''Just to Remind You'' (1931),<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ifraAQAAQBAJ&q=Isabel+Baring&pg=PA225|title=Peg Entwistle and the Hollywood Sign Suicide: A Biography|last=Zeruk|first=James Jr.|year=2013|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9781476612195|pages=224–225|language=en}}</ref> and ''A Hat, A Coat, A Glove'' (1934).<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cET0eE7j5o4C&q=Isabel+Baring&pg=PA94|title=American Theatre: A Chronicle of Comedy and Drama, 1930–1969|last=Bordman|first=Gerald|date=1996-11-21|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780195358087|page=94|language=en}}</ref> She was also in ''The Gingham Girl'' (1923),<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/35128635/isabel_lamon_1923/|title=This 'Gingham' Girl Has Novel Ideas|date=October 9, 1923|work=Hartford Courant|access-date=August 21, 2019|page=10|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> ''The Butter and Egg Man,'' and ''The Honeymoon'' (1926), on the vaudeville stage''.''<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/35129254/isabel_lamon_1926/|title=E. F. Albee Theatre|date=August 21, 1926|work=Brooklyn Life and Activities of Long Island Society|access-date=August 21, 2019|page=16|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> She acted in radio drama in the 1930s.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/35131954/isabel_baring_1937/|title=Headliners for Gala Show Thursday|date=January 24, 1937|work=Chicago Tribune|access-date=August 21, 2019|page=43|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
== Personal life == Isabel Lamon married songwriter and playwright William M. Hough; they had one child, Carol.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/35130053/isabel_lamon_1935/|title=Husband Held|date=May 1, 1935|work=Chicago Tribune|access-date=August 21, 2019|page=9|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Hough had left Lamon by 1932,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/326834/alton_evening_telegraph/|title=Playwright Sued for Divorce by Actress|date=February 18, 1932|work=Alton Evening Telegram|access-date=August 21, 2019|page=7|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> but there were years of lawsuits<ref>{{Cite news|title=Will Hough Arrested : Playwright's Wife In Chicago Accuses Him of Desertion|date=May 1, 1935|work=The New York Times|page=14|id={{ProQuest|<!--ProQuest data goes here--> }}}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/35129950/isabel_lamon_1932/|title=Playwright's Actress Wife Files Suit for Alienation|date=January 15, 1932|work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette|access-date=August 21, 2019|page=24|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> before their divorce was final in 1947.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/35129860/isabel_lamon_1947/|title=Lyrist Hough, Wife Divorced|date=December 25, 1947|work=Daily News|access-date=August 21, 2019|page=216|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Isabel Lamon died in 1958, aged 59 years, in New York. Her grave is with her mother's, in Kensico Cemetery.{{Citation needed |date=April 2022}}
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== External links == * {{IMDb name|0483611}} * {{IBDB name|48799}} * {{Find a Grave|11225846}} * {{Playbill person|isabel-baring-vault-0000053982|Isabel Baring}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lamon, Isabel}} Category:1898 births Category:1958 deaths Category:American stage actresses Category:American film actresses Category:American silent film actresses Category:Actresses from Chicago Category:Burials at Kensico Cemetery Category:20th-century American actresses