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Elsie Mackay (actress)
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Elsie Mackay (born c. 1900, date of death unknown) was an American
actress on Broadway
and films in the 1920s and 1930s.
circa 1919/20, but they divorced in March 1928, after he had detective
s raid an apartment on Manhattan's 68th Street in 1925, where Mackay was found with actor Max Montesole. One source claims that they had a son, John. A second source says that Atwill was survived by his son John in 1946. A third source is somewhat contradictory as Atwill's son John from his first marriage died in World War II
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Elsie Mackay's Broadway
career included
Elsie Mackay's film career included
Elsie Mackay
For the American actress Elsie Mackay please see Elsie Mackay The Honourable Elsie Mackay was a British actress, interior decorator and pioneering aviatrix who died attempting to cross the Atlantic Ocean with Walter G. R...
Elsie Mackay (born c. 1900, date of death unknown) was an American
United States
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actress on Broadway
Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...
and films in the 1920s and 1930s.
Private life
Elsie Mackay became the second wife of actor Lionel AtwillLionel Atwill
Lionel Atwill was an English stage and film actor born in Croydon, London, England.He studied architecture before his stage debut at the Garrick Theatre, London in 1904. He become a star in Broadway theatre by 1918, and made his screen debut in 1919. He acted on the stage in Australia but was most...
circa 1919/20, but they divorced in March 1928, after he had detective
Detective
A detective is an investigator, either a member of a police agency or a private person. The latter may be known as private investigators or "private eyes"...
s raid an apartment on Manhattan's 68th Street in 1925, where Mackay was found with actor Max Montesole. One source claims that they had a son, John. A second source says that Atwill was survived by his son John in 1946. A third source is somewhat contradictory as Atwill's son John from his first marriage died in World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
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Theatre and film
Elsie Mackay's theatre career included:- 'Grumpy' at Hollis Street Theatre, Boston. March 27, 1915-16.
Elsie Mackay's Broadway
Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...
career included
- 'Another Man's Shoes' 1918', where she replaced Alma TellAlma TellAlma Tell was an American stage and motion picture actress whose career in cinema began in 1915 and lasted into the talkie era of the early 1930s....
as Lionel Atwill's leading woman. - 'As You Like ItAs You Like ItAs You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 or early 1600 and first published in the folio of 1623. The play's first performance is uncertain, though a performance at Wilton House in 1603 has been suggested as a possibility...
' (as Rosalind) 1919, - 'Clarence' (as Violet Pinney) 1919,
- 'Poldekin' (as Maria) 1920,
- 'Deburau' (as Marie Duplessis) 1921,
- 'The White-Faced Fool', 1922
- 'The Comedian' (as Jacqueline) 1923.
Elsie Mackay's film career included
- Sylvia ScarlettSylvia ScarlettSylvia Scarlett is a 1935 romantic comedy film starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, based on The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett, a novel by Compton MacKenzie. Directed by George Cukor, it was notorious as one of the most famous unsuccessful movies of the 1930s...
(1935)(uncredited)