Percy Haswell ( born Percy Haswell ; April 30, 1871–14 June 1945) is an American theater and film actress.
| Percy haswell | |
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| English Percy haswell | |
| Date of Birth | |
| Place of Birth | Austin , Texas , United States |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | Nantucket , Massachusetts , United States |
| Citizenship |  USA |
| Profession | actress |
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Biography
Born in Austin , Texas , in the family of a politician and businessman, George Tyler Haswell and Caroline Dalton [4] . She was educated in Washington . She made her debut on the stage at an early age, in March 1885 [4] . She has performed at the Lafayette Square Theater in Washington and at the Augustin Daley Theater in New York . Her work on stage includes performances on the stages of Baltimore , Boston , Buffalo , Toronto , as well as in many other places. In particular, she appeared on Broadway in 1898 and 1932 [4] [5] .
On June 2, 1895, she married actor George Fousett in Bridgeport , Connecticut . In 1901, she formed the Percy Haswell Repertory Theater, which was an integral part of the George Fawsett Repertory Theater [6] . In 1925, she staged the play “The Complex” on Broadway. She also starred in two silent films in 1919 and in 1929 [7] .
She died in Nantucket , Massachusetts [7] , raising her daughter alone by that time [8] .
Journalist Fulton Orsler describing his attraction to her, he wrote the following: “She has expressive white hair, blue eyes, and a gentle voice. She grew up in Austin, Texas, but it seemed to me that she was from a completely different world. She was my first Rosalinda, and Juliet and Ophelia and a dozen other heroines, inviolable and worldly ” [6] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Internet Movie Database - 1990.
- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ 1 2 Internet Broadway Database - 2000.
- 2 1 2 3 John Parker, ed., Who’s in the Theater , 3rd Ed., London: Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1916, vol. 3, p. 293
- ↑ Johnson Briscoe, The Actors' Birthday Book , 3rd ser., New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1909, p. 111
- ↑ 1 2 Fulton Oursler, Behold this dreamer !: An autobiography , Little Brown, 1964, pp. 39-40
- ↑ 1 2 Evelyn Mack Truitt, Who Was Who on Screen , 2nd ed., Bowker, 1977, p. 203
- ↑ The Billboard , 23 Jun2 1945, p. 36
Links
- Percy Haswell (Eng.) On the Internet Broadway Database
- Percy Haswell (Eng.) On the Internet Movie Database
- Portrait of Percy Haswell, 1899
- Percy Haswell: North American Theater Online (AlexanderStreet.com)