Josephine Ditt

{{short description|US film actress}} '''Josephine Ditt''', born on September 7, 1868, in Chicago and died on October 18, 1939, in Los Angeles, was a film actress in the United States. She appeared in numerous silent films and married actor and director Tom Ricketts.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1939/01/21/archives/thomas-ricketts-pioneer-of-movies-man-who-directed-the-first.html|title=THOMAS RICKETTS, PIONEER OF MOVIES; Man Who Directed the First Hollywood Picture Dies in Dire Straits at 86 DEVELOPED EARLY STARS J.W. Kerrigan, Ethel Clayton and Bryant Washburn Were Among His 'Discoveries' Discovered" First Stars Directed Bronco Billy Many Pictures Followed|date=January 21, 1939|work=The New York Times}}</ref> Her role in ''Damaged Goods'' was described as one of the most difficult ever conceived.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HHRJAQAAMAAJ&q=josephine+ditt&pg=RA3-PA12 |title = The Movie Magazine: A National Motion Picture Magazine|year = 1915}}</ref>

==Filmography== {{div col begin}} *''Romantic Redskins'' (1910) *''The Bachelor and the Baby'' (1912) *''Lottery Ticket Number 13'' (1912) *''The Foreign Spy'' (1912) *''Maud Muller'' (1912) *''A Foreign Spy'' (1913) *''Calamity Anne in Society'' (1914) *''The Hermit'' (1914) *''The Lost Treasure'' (1914) *''The Professor's Awakening'' (1914) *''A Modern Free-Lance'' (1914) *''Her Fighting Chance'' (1914) *''In the Moonlight'' (1914) *''At the End of a Perfect Day'' (1914) *''False Gods'' (1914) *''This Is th' Life'' (1914) *''Lodging for the Night'' (1914) *''Daylight'' (1914) *''The Ruin of Manley'' (1914) *''In the Candlelight'' (1914) *''The Girl in Question ''(1914) *''The Tin Can Shack'' (1914) *''Damaged Goods'' (1914) *''The Town of Nazareth'' (1914) *''The Alarm of Angelon'' (1915) *''Refining Fires'' (1915) *''The Crucifixion of Al Brady'' (1915) *''Silence'' (1915) *''The Decision'' (1915) *''Ancestry'' (1915) *''Reformation'' (1915) *''His Brother's Debt'' (1915) *''The Problem'' (1915) *''The Castle Ranch'' (1915) *''The Honor of the District Attorney of Reaves Eason'' (1915) *''In the Twilight'' (1915) *''{{ill|The House of a Thousand Scandals|fr}}'' (1915)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/562307/the-house-of-a-thousand-scandals|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110910042204/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/562307/The-House-of-a-Thousand-Scandals/|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 10, 2011|title=The House of a Thousand Scandals|website=Turner Classic Movies}}</ref> *''Secretary of Frivolous Affairs'' (1915)<ref name=scan>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/0%7C90018/Josephine-Ditt/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181129024527/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/0%7C90018/Josephine-Ditt/|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 29, 2018|title=Josephine Ditt|website=Turner Classic Movies}}</ref> {{div col end}}

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ditt, Josephine}} Category:American film actresses Category:American silent film actresses Category:20th-century American actresses Category:1868 births Category:1939 deaths