Claire Whitney was an American stage and film actress. She appeared in 111 films between 1912 and 1949. She made her first film in 1913 for Solax and continued making films until 1921, mainly for Fox Film Corporation. Whitney came back to films in 1926 with a role in The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby (1926 film)

The Great Gatsby is a silent film adaptation of the novel of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The film was directed by Herbert Brenon, produced by Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky at Famous Players-Lasky, and released by Paramount Pictures. The film is a famous example of a lost film....

 which would be her final silent film. She continued working in film between 1931 and 1949 when she retired.

Whitney died in Los Angeles

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 on August 27, 1969 at the age of 79. She is buried in an unmarked grave in Forest Lawn Memorial Park

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Selected filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1913	The Star of India	Captain Kenneth's wife
1914	The Million Dollar Robbery	Daphne Pell
1915	The Galley Slave The Galley Slave The Galley Slave is a 1915 silent drama film directed by J. Gordon Edwards and starring Theda Bara. The film is now considered to be lost.-Cast:* Theda Bara - Francesca Brabaut* Stuart Holmes - Antoine Brabaut* Claire Whitney - Cecil Blaine...	Cecil Blaine
1916	East Lynne East Lynne (1916 film) East Lynne is a 1916 silent drama film directed by Bertram Bracken and starring Theda Bara. It is based on the novel of the same name. A print of this film survives in the film archives of the Museum of Modern Art.-Cast:* Theda Bara - Lady Isabel Carlisle...	Barbara Hare
	Under Two Flags Under Two Flags (1916 film) Under Two Flags is a 1916 silent drama film directed by J. Gordon Edwards and starring Theda Bara. The film is now considered to be lost.-Cast:* Theda Bara - Cigarette* Herbert Heyes - Bertie Cecil...	Venitia
1917	Heart and Soul Heart and Soul (film) Heart and Soul is a 1917 silent drama film directed by J. Gordon Edwards and starring Theda Bara. It was made by Fox Film Corporation when it and many other early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based in Fort Lee, New Jersey at the beginning of the 20th century...	Bess
	Camille Camille (1917 film) Camille is a silent film based on the 1852 novel and play La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas, fils, adapted by Adrian Johnson, directed by J. Gordon Edwards, and starring Theda Bara as Marguerite Gauthier. The film was made by Fox Film Corporation when it and many other early film studios in...	Celeste Duval
1918	Moral Suicide	Lucy Daniels
1919	The Man Who Stayed at Home	Molly Preston
1920	Why Women Sin	Baroness de Ville
1921	The Passionate Pilgrim	Esther
1926	The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby (1926 film) The Great Gatsby is a silent film adaptation of the novel of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The film was directed by Herbert Brenon, produced by Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky at Famous Players-Lasky, and released by Paramount Pictures. The film is a famous example of a lost film....	Catherine
1931	A Free Soul A Free Soul A Free Soul is a 1931 Pre-Code film which tells the story of an alcoholic defense attorney who must defend his daughter's ex-boyfriend on a charge of murdering the mobster she had started a relationship with; a mobster whom her father had previously got an acquittal for on a murder charge...	Aunt Helen	Uncredited
1934	Enlighten Thy Daughter	Alice Stevens	Alternative title: Blind Fools
1938	Secrets of a Nurse	Nurse	Uncredited
1939	Chip of the Flying U	Miss Robinson
1940	The House of Seven Gables	Waitress	Uncredited
1941	Mob Town	Mrs. Simpson	Uncredited
1942	The Silver Bullet	Emily Morgan
1943	So's Your Uncle	Marta
1944	The Mummy's Ghost The Mummy's Ghost The Mummy's Ghost is the 1944 Universal Pictures sequel to The Mummy's Tomb. Lon Chaney, Jr. again takes on the role of Kharis the mummy.-Plot:...	Mrs. Ella Norman
1945	Anchors Aweigh Anchors Aweigh (film) Anchors Aweigh is a 1945 American musical comedy film directed by George Sidney in which two sailors go on a four-day shore leave in Hollywood, accompanied by music and song, meet an aspiring young singer and try to help her get an audition at MGM...	U.S.O. Mother	Uncredited
1946	The Haunted Mine	Mrs. Durant
1947	Christmas Eve Christmas Eve (film) Christmas Eve is a 1947 United Artists comedy film directed by Edwin L. Marin. The movie is based on the story by Richard H. Landau and stars George Raft, George Brent and Randolph Scott...	Dr. Bunyan's Wife	Alternative title: Sinner's Holiday
1949	An Old-Fashioned Girl An Old-Fashioned Girl An Old-Fashioned Girl is a novel by Louisa May Alcott.It was first serialised in the Merry's Museum magazine between July and August in 1869 and consisted of only six chapters. For the finished product, however, Alcott continued the story from the chapter "Six Years Afterwards" and so it ended up...	Miss Mills

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