Catherine Calvert | |
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Born | Catherine Cassidy April 20, 1890 Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. |
Died | January 18, 1971 Uniondale, New York, U.S. | (aged 80)
Occupation | Actress |
Spouses | Paul Armstrong
(m. 1913; died 1915)George A. Carruthers
(m. 1925; died 1952) |
Children | 1 |
Catherine Calvert (born Catherine Cassidy; April 20, 1890 – January 18, 1971) was an American actress.
Biography
[edit]The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cassidy,[1] Catherine Calvert was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland.[2]
She made her stage debut in the play Brown of Harvard in September 1908, in Albany, New York.[2] On Broadway, she portrayed Doris Moore in The Deep Purple (1911),[3][4] May Joyce in The Escape (1913), and Dona Sol in Blood and Sand (1921).[5]
After many years' experience onstage in productions including The Deep Purple (a play by her future husband, Paul Armstrong), in 1910, she entered films via Keeney Pictures Corporation in A Romance of the Underworld (1918; based on a play in which she had appeared onstage).[6]
Other films in which she appeared include Marriage, Out of the Night, Career of Katherine Bush, Marriage for Convenience, and Fires of Faith. Around 1920, she was a star of Vitagraph Studios.[6]
Calvert married Armstrong in New Haven in 1913.[7] They remained wed until his death in 1915.[1] She later married Canadian grain exporter George A. Carruthers, who died in 1952.[8]
In 1971, Calvert died in Uniondale, New York, at age 80.[8]
Filmography
[edit]![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Marriage_for_Convenience.jpg/220px-Marriage_for_Convenience.jpg)
- Partners (1916) (*short)
- House of Cards (1917)
- The Peddler (1917))
- Think It Over (1917)
- Behind the Mask (1917)
- Outcast (1917)
- The Uphill Path (1918)
- A Romance of the Underworld (1918)
- Out of the Night (1918)
- Marriage (1918)
- Marriage For Convenience (1919)
- Fires of Faith (1919)
- The Career of Katherine Bush (1919)
- Dead Men Tell No Tales (1920)
- The Heart of Maryland (1921)
- You Find It Everywhere (1921)
- Moral Fibre (1921)
- The Green Caravan (1922)
- That Woman (1922)
- The Indian Love Lyrics (1923)
- Out to Win (1923)
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Paul Armstrong Dead". The Baltimore Sun. Maryland, Baltimore. August 31, 1915. p. 1. Retrieved August 9, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b Hines, Dixie; Hanaford, Harry Prescott, eds. (1914). "Calvert, Catherine (Catherine Calvert Cassidy)". Who's Who in Music and Drama. New York: H. P. Hanaford, p. 60.
- ^ "New Play Of Crooks Seen At The Lyric". The New York Times. New York, New York. January 10, 1911. p. 4 – via NYTimes.com.
- ^ Darnton, Charles (January 11, 1911). "The New Plays". The Evening World. New York, New York. p. 19 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Catherine Calvert". Internet Broadway Database. The Broadway League. Archived from the original on August 9, 2020. Retrieved August 9, 2020.
- ^ a b Fox, Charles Donald; Silver, Milton L., eds. (1920). "Catherine Calvert". Who's Who on the Screen. New York: Ross Publishing. p. 272.
- ^ "Wife for Paul Armstrong". The Kansas City Star. Missouri, Kansas City. December 20, 1913. p. 2. Retrieved August 9, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b "Miss Calvert, Actress, at 80". The Philadelphia Inquirer. January 20, 1971. p. 54. Retrieved August 9, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
External links
[edit]- Catherine Calvert at IMDb
- Catherine Calvert at AllMovie
- Catherine Calvert at the Internet Broadway Database
- Catherine Calvert photo gallery NY Public Library Billy Rose Collection
- Catherine Calvert portraits at Corbis