Annabelle Moore

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| birth_name = Annabella Whitford

| birth_date = {{birth date|1878|07|06}}

| birth_place = Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

| death_date = {{dda|1961|11|29|1878|07|06}}

| death_place = Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

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| notableworks = Annabelle Serpentine Dance

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Annabelle Moore (born Annabella Whitford,[http://cabinetcardgallery.wordpress.com/tag/annabelle/ Annabelle Moore: early film dancer] July 6, 1878 – November 29, 1961), also known as Peerless Annabelle, was an American dancer and actress who appeared in numerous early silent films. She was the original Gibson Girl in the 1907 Ziegfeld Follies.[https://books.google.com/books?id=hFxwX-dM008C&dq=Annabelle+Moore&pg=PA446 Encyclopaedia of Early Cinema] by Richard Abel

Life and career

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Annabelle Whitford was born in Chicago. She made her debut at age 15 dancing at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893.United Press International (December 1, 1961). 'Original Gibson Girl' dies at 83. Pittsburgh Press. She later moved to New York City, where she performed in several films for the Edison StudiosYumibe, Joshua (2012). Moving Color: Early Film, Mass Culture, Modernism. Rutgers University Press, {{ISBN|9780813552989}} and appeared on Broadway.

Annabelle was quite popular in her youth. The sale of her films was further boosted in December 1896Paul McDonald (2000). The Star System: Hollywood and the Production of Popular Identities. when it was revealed that she had been approached to appear naked at a private dinner party at Sherry's Restaurant.[http://www.victorian-cinema.net/annabelle Biography of Annabelle by Barry Anthony – American skirt dancer and stage beauty][http://bellastsation.wordpress.com/2010/07/13/the-mysterious-annabelle-whitford/ The Mysterious Annabelle Whitford] It was said she introduced eroticism in film.[https://archive.org/details/dance1895 Serpentine Dance (1895)]

She married Edward James Buchan in 1910. He died in 1958.

Although she was very popular before her marriage,André Gaudreault. American Cinema 1890–1909: Themes and Variations. Annabelle died penniless in Chicago in 1961.Staff report (December 2, 1961). PEERLESS ANNABELLE, 83; Former Dancer and Showgirl Dies Penniless in Chicago. The New York Times.Staff report (December 3, 1961). Obituary. Chicago Tribune.