{{short description|American actress}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox person | image = Lucille Younge trading card.jpg | image_size = 180px | name = Lucille Young | birth_date = March 6, 1883 | birth_place = Lansing, Michigan, U.S. | death_date = August 2, 1934 (aged 51) | death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S. | other_names = Lucille Younge<br> Lucile Young<br>Miss Young<br>Lulu Day | occupation = Actress | years_active = 1905–1930 | spouse = {{marriage|Hale Day|1918|end=divorced}} }}
'''Lucille May Young''' (March 6, 1883<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.geni.com/people/Lucille-Day/6000000061371198898|title = Lucille May "Lulu" Day| date=March 6, 1883 }}</ref> – August 2, 1934) was an American actress of the early silent film era.
==Early life== Lucille May Young was born on March 6, 1883, in Lansing, Michigan, the daughter of Glendower Young (1858–1927)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.geni.com/people/Glendower-Young/6000000061369484282|title=Glendower Young|date=April 3, 1858 }}</ref> and Katherine Bessie "Kittie" Young (1861–1942).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.geni.com/people/Katherine-Young/6000000061370657293|title=MRS. Katherine Bessie "Kittie" Terry|date=July 10, 1861 }}</ref> She had one brother, Howard Earl Young, who was born a year earlier.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.geni.com/people/Howard-Young/6000000061370783241|title=Howard Earl Young|date=February 27, 1882 }}</ref> Some sources give Lucille's birth name as Lucia Medina, her birth year as 1892, and her birthplace as Lyon, France.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thanhouser.org/tcocd/Biography_Files/ind46mj9q.htm|title = YOUNGE, Lucille}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mymoviepicker.com/personne/lucille-younge-69728.htm|title = Lucille Younge}}</ref>
Her parents' marriage was short-lived, and her mother remarried to James Mortimer Terry, gaining Young a half-sister, Ethel Terry, who also became an actress (not to be confused with Ethel Grey Terry).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.geni.com/people/James-Terry/6000000061371369821|title = James Mortimer Terry| date=May 24, 2018 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.silentera.com/people/actresses/Terry-Ethel.html|title = Silent Era : People}}</ref>
==Career== In 1905, Lucille and Ethel began performing in vaudeville in Detroit. One production noted in the Detroit Free Press was the "Isles of Spice". She's mentioned as a player in the vaudeville giant, Vaughan Glaser Company in 1907.
Around 1909 she made her way to New York, her early film work there being with The Thanhouser Company.<ref>{{cite web |first=Hans J. |last=Wollstein |url=http://www.allmovie.com/artist/78237 |publisher=AllMovie |title=Lucille Younge |accessdate=June 18, 2010}}</ref> Her first film roles were in 1910, appearing opposite George Larkin in ''An Indian's Gratitude'', and in ''The Vicar of Wakefield'' alongside Martin Faust and Anna Rosemond. From 1910 to the end of 1914 Young appeared in thirty six films, most of which were short films. She appeared in another eighteen films in 1915, which would be her biggest year.
From 1916 to 1930 Young appeared in twenty four films, including ''The Daredevil'' alongside Tom Mix and Eva Novak, and opposite Marceau Moore in ''The Invisible Enemy''. All but two of her film appearances during that period would be by 1920, with a five-year gap between 1920 and 1925 before she would have another film role, then a gap of five years until her final role in 1930. She died following an unsuccessful surgery on August 2, 1934, in Los Angeles.<ref>{{cite web |work=Les Gens du Cinéma |url=http://www.lesgensducinema.com/affiche_acteur.php?mots=lucille+young&nom_acteur=YOUNG+Lucille&ident=61245&debut=0&record=0 |accessdate=June 18, 2010 |date=June 28, 2004 |title=Lucille Young}}</ref>
==Personal life== In 1918, Young married an attorney, Lieutenant Hale Day, in San Diego. The marriage produced no children and ended in divorce.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0949841/bio?ref_=m_mn_ov_bio|title=Lucille Young|publisher=IMDb }}</ref>
==Selected filmography== * ''White Fawn's Devotion'' (1910) * ''An Indian's Gratitude'' (1910) * ''The Vicar of Wakefield'' (1910) * ''The Scarlet Letter'' (1911) * ''Hearts and Crosses'' (1913) * ''The Spell of the Poppy'' (1915) * ''The Woman from Warren's'' (1915) * ''Daphne and the Pirate'' (1916) * ''The Flying Torpedo'' (1916) * ''The Invisible Enemy'' (1916) * ''The Old Folks at Home'' (1916) as Lucia Medina * ''The Heiress at Coffee Dan's'' (1916)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/AbbrView.aspx?s=1&Movie=14126|title=The Heiress at Coffee Dan's|accessdate=November 29, 2014|website=AFI Catalog of Feature Films}}</ref> * ''The Soul of Satan'' (1917) * ''Rose o' Paradise'' (1918) * ''The Greatest Thing in Life'' (1918) * ''Fuss and Feathers'' (1918) * ''The Virtuous Thief'' (1919) * ''The Terror'' (1920) * ''The Daredevil'' (1920) * ''The False Road'' (1920)
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Young, Lucille}} Category:1883 births Category:1934 deaths Category:American silent film actresses Category:American film actresses Category:French emigrants to the United States Category:Actresses from Lyon Category:American vaudeville performers Category:20th-century American actresses Category:20th-century French women