Lillian Cook

{{short description|American actress}} {{Infobox person | name = Lillian Cook | image = Betsy_Ross_(1917)_-_2.jpg | caption = Cook (right) in ''Betsy Ross'' (1917) | birth_name = Lillian Agnes Cook | birth_date = May 16, 1898 | birth_place = Hot Springs, Arkansas, US | death_date = {{death date and age|1918|3|14|1898|5|16}} | death_place = New York City, US | resting_place = Spring Grove Cemetery | family = }}

'''Lillian Cook''' was an American actress who was active in Hollywood during the silent era.

== Biography == Cook was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas, to Joseph Cook and his wife Martha.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=14 Feb 1917|title=Clara Kimball Young in 'The Common Law'|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/287976449/?terms=%22lillian+cook%22|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-09-10|website=Hot Springs New Era|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=saMbAQAAMAAJ&q=%22lillian+cook%22+actress&pg=PA637|title=The Moving Picture World|date=1916|publisher=World Photographic Publishing Company|language=en}}</ref> An only child, she grew up primarily in Cincinnati before she moved to New York to pursue a career on the stage.<ref name=":0" />

Cook died in her Manhattan apartment at the Hotel Remington at age 19 after appearing in dozens of silent films.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2 Apr 1918|title=Film Favorite Facts|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/616679475/?terms=%22lillian%2Bcook%22|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-09-10|website=The Sacramento Bee|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=18 Jul 1918|title=The Cinema Girl's Chats of the Films|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/253311169/?terms=%22lillian+cook%22|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-09-10|website=Press and Sun-Bulletin|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=20 Mar 1918|title=Lillian Cook Dies|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/291852146/?terms=%22lillian+cook%22|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-09-10|website=News-Journal|language=en}}</ref> Her early death may have been caused by her role as a fairy in Maurice Tourneur's ''The Blue Bird'' a year earlier: according to one account, the heavy wings that were part of her costume injured her spine and caused tuberculosis.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=24 Mar 1918|title=The Silent Drama|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/34201484/?terms=%22lillian+cook%22|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-09-10|website=The Cincinnati Enquirer|language=en}}</ref>

== Selected filmography ==

* ''The Blue Bird'' (1918) * ''The Devil's Playground'' (1917) * ''The Honeymoon'' (1917) * ''Her Hour'' (1917) * ''The Corner Grocer'' (1917) * ''Betsy Ross'' (1917) * ''Rasputin, the Black Monk'' (1917) * ''Beloved Adventuress'' (1917) * ''The Submarine Eye'' (1917) * ''Darkest Russia'' (1917) * ''The Common Law'' (1916) * ''Sudden Riches'' (1916) * ''As in a Looking Glass'' (1916) * ''A Woman's Power'' (1916) * ''Camille'' (1915) * ''The Cotton King'' (1915) * ''Mother'' (1914)

== References == {{Reflist}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cook, Lillian}} Category:1898 births Category:1918 deaths Category:American film actresses Category:American silent film actresses Category:20th-century American actresses Category:Actresses from Hot Springs, Arkansas