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| name = Edith Taliaferro | image = Edith Taliaferro Who's Who on the Screen.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1894|12|21|mf=yes}} | birth_place = Richmond, Virginia, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1958|03|02|1894|12|21|mf=yes}} | death_place = Newtown, Connecticut, U.S. | death_cause = | resting_place = | nationality = American | occupation = Actress | years_active = 1896–1935 | spouse = {{marriage|House B. Jameson|1912|1958}} | relatives = Mabel Taliaferro (sister) Bessie Barriscale (cousin) }} Edith Taliaferro (December 21, 1894 – March 2, 1958) was an American stage and film actress of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She was active on the stage until 1935 and had roles in three silent films. She is best known for portraying the role of "Rebecca" in the 1910 stage production of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. Early life and familyTaliaferro was born in Richmond, Virginia, the daughter of theatre workers.[1] She was the younger sister of Mabel Taliaferro who also became a stage actress, and the cousin of actress Bessie Barriscale.[2][3] Her ancestors were originally from England, of remote Italian descent (from the 1500s). They were one of the families who settled in Virginia in the 17th century. CareerEarly yearsTaliaferro made her acting debut at the age of two in the stock stage production of Shore Acres, with James A. Herne.[1] It was rumored that she obtained the part because her sister Mabel was too old to depict the character. Her New York City debut came in 1896 at Miner's Theatre on Fifth Avenue, in the same play. The Harlem Opera House presented Shore Acres in October 1897. At the age of ten, in 1904, Taliaferro was paid $100 per week by George Tyler of Liebler & Company. She signed a contract for the following season to appear with Ezra Kendall. She was the youngest Shakesperean actress on the stage. She portrayed Puck in a Ben Greet production of A Midsummer Night's Dream before an audience at Princeton University in May 1904. She was lauded by professors there and they sent her a Princeton University flag and pin. By then she had performed in six to eight juvenile roles after her professional debut. When she returned to New York, Taliaferro appeared with Clara Bloodgood in The Girl With The Green Eyes. Early in her career she toured with such stars as Olga Nethersole and E. H. Sothern. In 1907, Taliaferro played a youthful circus rider in Polly of the Circus. The play, written by Frederic Thompson, ran for more than a year at the Liberty Theater, 242 West 42nd Street. The production moved to the Wieting Theater in Syracuse, New York in November 1908. She is most noted for her 1910 performance in Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. It was staged at the Republic Theater (New Victory Theater), 209 West 42nd Street. Her other successful theatrical performances include roles in Young Wisdom (1914), Tipping The Winner (1914), A Breath of Old Virginia (1915), Mother Carey's Chickens (1917), and The Bestsellers (1918). Films, later career and retirementTaliaferro made her silent film debut in Young Romance in 1915. She made only two more films, The Conquest of Canaan (1916) and Who's Your Brother? (1919). She returned to Broadway in 1919 in Please Get Married followed by roles in Kissing Time (1920), A Love Scandal (1923), and as "Amanda Prynne" in the touring company production of Private Lives in 1931.[4] She performed in London, England and in Australia with the Toronto Theatre Guild. In vaudeville she appeared at the Palace Theater in New York City. Most of her later work was with summer theaters and on radio. Taliaferro retired from stage work in the late 1930s after she lost her vision.[5] Personal lifeTaliaferro's first husband was actor Earl Browne. The marriage was announced in July 1913.[6] Taliaferro's second husband was actor House B. Jameson, whom she married around 1928.[7] Jameson appeared in various stage productions and later became known for his role as Sam "Papa" Aldrich on the radio and television series The Aldrich Family.[8] The couple had no children and remained married until Taliaferro's death.[9] DeathOn March 2, 1958, Edith Taliaferro died of an undisclosed illness at her home in Newtown, Connecticut.[9] Stage credits
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Footnotes1. ^1 {{cite book|last=Fisher|first=James|title=The A to Z of American Theater: Modernism|year=2009|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=0-810-86884-9|page=465|author2=Hardison Londre, Felicia}} 2. ^{{cite book|last=Hischak|first=Thomas S.|title=Enter the Players: New York Stage Actors in the Twentieth Century|year=2003|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=0-810-84761-2|page=304}} 3. ^{{cite book|last=Lowe|first=Denise|title=An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Women in Early American Films: 1895-1930|year=2014|publisher=Routledge|isbn=1-317-71896-8|page=1865}} 4. ^{{cite news|last=Gaines|first=William|title=Sidelights In New York|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2202&dat=19310720&id=DLMlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EvwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1030,6427558|newspaper=Gettysburg Times|date=July 20, 1931|page=6}} 5. ^{{cite news|title="Rebecca" Dies|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1314&dat=19580302&id=OH4SAAAAIBAJ&sjid=2-YDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5756,1167710|newspaper=The Spokesman-Review|date=March 2, 1958|page=15}} 6. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/174231807/?terms=%2522Edith%252BTaliaferro%2522%252Bmarried|title=19 Jul 1913, Page 3 - The Rock Island Argus and Daily Union at Newspapers.com|access-date=2016-08-06}} 7. ^{{Cite news|url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1953/03/14/page/36/article/father-aldrich-in-harem-class-has-4-tv-wives|title=Father Aldrich In Harem Class; Has 4 TV Wives|last=Wolters|first=Larry|date=March 14, 1953|work=|access-date=|via=}} 8. ^{{cite news|last=Oliver|first=Wayne|title=The Lone Ranger Gallops Into Third Decade This Week|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2506&dat=19530125&id=8Ms8AAAAIBAJ&sjid=7i0MAAAAIBAJ&pg=4510,6022266|newspaper=The News and Courier|date=January 25, 1953|page=10-D}} 9. ^1 {{cite news|title=Edith Taliaferro|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1873&dat=19580303&id=K5soAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IMoEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7064,495187|newspaper=Daytona Beach Morning Journal|date=March 3, 1958|page=3}} 10. ^See photograph at http://www.shorpy.com/node/13082 which omits "It" External links{{Portal|Biography}}{{commons category}}
15 : 1894 births|1958 deaths|19th-century American actresses|20th-century American actresses|American child actresses|American musical theatre actresses|American people of Italian descent|American people of English descent|American silent film actresses|American stage actresses|American radio actresses|Disease-related deaths in Connecticut|Actresses from Richmond, Virginia|Taliaferro family of Virginia|Vaudeville performers |
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