Edith Roberts
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Silent film
A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...
actress from New York City
New York City
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. She was a child performer in vaudeville
Vaudeville
Vaudeville was a theatrical genre of variety entertainment in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s. Each performance was made up of a series of separate, unrelated acts grouped together on a common bill...
before she came to Hollywood, California in 1915.
Among her more than one hundred fifty screen credits are roles in Seven Keys To Baldpate (1925), Big Brother (1923), The Wagon Master (1929), and The Mystery Club (1926). Her final film role was in Two O'Clock in the Morning (1929).
In private life she was Mrs. Harold Carter. She died, aged 35, from septicemia at the Hollywood Hospital in 1935, shortly after giving birth to a son, Robert, her only child. A Christian Science
Christian Science
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funeral service was conducted at the chapel at Hollywood Cemetery, Los Angeles, California.
Selected filmography
- The Adorable OutcastThe Adorable OutcastThe Adorable Outcast is a 1928 Australian silent film directed by Norman Dawn about an adventurer who romances an island girl. The big-budget film was shot mostly on location in Fiji. The film initially performed strongly at the box office but soon tailed off, and expected overseas success did not...
(1928) - The Phantom of the NorthThe Phantom of the NorthThe Phantom of the North is a 1929 drama film directed by Harry S. Webb and featuring Boris Karloff.-Cast:* Edith Roberts - Doris Rayburn* Donald Keith - Bob Donald* Kathleen Key - Colette* Boris Karloff - Jules Gregg* Joe Bonomo - Pierre Blanc...
(19291929 in film-Events:The days of the silent film are numbered. A mad scramble to provide synchronized sound is on.*January 20 - The movie In Old Arizona is released. The film is the first full-length talking film to be filmed outdoors....
) - There You Are!There You Are!There You Are! is a 1926 film directed by Edward Sedgwick and several other directors; the changes were such that no director was credited upon general release...
(19261926 in film-Events:*August - Warner Brothers debuts the first Vitaphone film, Don Juan. The Vitaphone system used multiple 33⅓ rpm disc records developed by Bell Telephone Laboratories and Western Electric to play back audio synchronized with film....
) - The Age Of InnocenceThe Age of InnocenceThe Age of Innocence is a novel by Edith Wharton published in 1920, which won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize. The story is set in upper-class New York City in the 1870s. In 1920, The Age of Innocence was serialized in four parts in the Pictorial Review magazine, and later released by D...
(1924) - Thy Name Is WomanThy Name Is WomanThy Name Is Woman is a 1924 silent comedy film directed by Fred Niblo.-Cast:* Ramon Novarro - Juan Ricardo* Barbara La Marr - Guerita* William V. Mong - Pedro the Fox * Wallace MacDonald - Capt. Rodrigo de Castelar...
(1924) - Roaring RailsRoaring RailsRoaring Rails is a 1924 action film featuring Harry Carey.-Cast:* Harry Carey - Big Bill Benson* Frankie Darro - Little Bill* Edith Roberts - Nora Burke* Wallace MacDonald - Malcolm Gregory* Frank Hagney - Red Burley...
(19241924 in film-Events:* Entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gained control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer Pictures to create Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
) - Flesh and BloodFlesh and Blood (1922 film)Flesh and Blood is a 1922 film starring Lon Chaney Sr. and directed by Irving Cummings. The film originally had a segment with Chinese players in color.-Synopsis:...
(1922) - Saturday Night (19221922 in film-Events:* June 11 - United States première of Robert J. Flaherty's Nanook of the North, the first commercially successful feature length documentary film....
) - The Brazen BeautyThe Brazen BeautyThe Brazen Beauty is a 1918 comedy film directed by Tod Browning.-Cast:* Priscilla Dean - Jacala Auehli* Gertrude Astor - Mrs. Augusta Van Ruysdael* Thurston Hall - Kenneth Hyde* Katherine Griffith - Aunt Ellen* Alice Wilson - Kate Dewey...
(1918) - The Deciding KissThe Deciding KissThe Deciding Kiss is a 1918 comedy film directed by Tod Browning.-Cast:* Edith Roberts - Eleanor Hamlin* Winifred Greenwood - Beulah Page* Hallam Cooley - Jimmy Sears * Hans Unterkircher - Peter Bolling...
(1918) - Set FreeSet Free (film)-Cast:* Edith Roberts - Roma Wycliffe* Harry Hilliard - John Roberts* Harold Goodwin - Ronald Blair* Mollie McConnell - Mrs. Roberts * Blanche Gray - Aunt Henrietta...
(19181918 in filmThe year 1918 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*Following litigation for anti-trust activities, the US Supreme Court orders the Motion Picture Patents Company to disband....
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