Anna Rosemond was one of the earliest film actresses of the early silent film era.

Anna Miers Rosemond was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

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. Her father was an Austrian

Austrians

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 immigrant, her mother a first generation American of German

Germans

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 parentage.

Films

She started her film acting career in 1910, having a supporting role in the film The Actor's Children, starring Frank Hall Crane

Frank Hall Crane

Frank Hall Crane was an American stage and film actor and director. He appeared in 75 films between 1909 and 1939. He also directed 48 films between 1914 and 1927. His first screen writing included The Stolen Voice in 1915.He was born in San Francisco, California, and died in Woodland Hills, Los...

, as well as an early film version of Uncle Tom's Cabin

Uncle Tom's Cabin (film)

A number of film adaptations of Uncle Tom's Cabin have been made over the years. Most of these movies were created during the silent film era...

, which also starred Crane and early child actress

Child actor

The term child actor or child actress is generally applied to a child acting in motion pictures or television, but also to an adult who began his or her acting career as a child; to avoid confusion, the latter is also called a former child actor...

 Marie Eline

Marie Eline

Marie Eline was an American silent film child actress and sister of Grace Eline, who apparently turned 111 in 2009. Nicknamed The Thanhouser Kid she began acting for the Thanhouser Company in film aged 8 and starred in exactly 100 films between 1910 and 1914.-Filmography:* Uncle Tom's Cabin ......

. She starred in fifteen films that year, almost all opposite Crane, to include She Stoops to Conquer, and The Two Roses again opposite Marie Eline and again, Frank Hall Crane. Her last film appearance was in the 1911 film Cinderella, starring Florence La Badie

Florence La Badie

Florence La Badie was an American actress in the early days of the silent film era. Though little known today, she was a major star between 1911 and 1917, her career was at its height and climbing when she died unexpectedly due to injuries sustained during an automobile accident.-Early life:While...

and Frank Hall Crane.

Family

Following her departure from film acting, she married George Jenkins Tompkins of Brooklyn N.Y., a NYC policeman of English/Irish descent. The two left NYC for California in 1913 where they gave birth to one daughter, Irma. Anna spent the rest of her life in San Diego and died in 1966 at the age of 80.