Belle Adair (actress)
{{short description|American actress}}
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{{Infobox person
| image = Belle_Adair.jpg
| caption = Adair, c. 1914
| other_names = Belle Adair Buchal
| birth_name = Belle Louise Adair
| birth_date = {{birth date|1889|2|7}}
| birth_place = San Jose, California, U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|1926|5|4|1889|2|7}}
| death_place = Saranac Lake, New York, U.S.
| burial_place = Glens Falls Cemetery, Glens Falls, New York{{cite web | url = https://www.cityofglensfalls.com/DocumentCenter/View/2450/Cemetery-Internment-List-PDF | title = Cemetery Internment List | website = City of Glenn Falls | access-date = October 14, 2020 | page = 41|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201107050337/https://www.cityofglensfalls.com/DocumentCenter/View/2450/Cemetery-Internment-List-PDF |archive-date=November 7, 2020}}
| spouse = Ewald F. Buchal
| education = Brooklyn Teachers Training College
}}
Belle Louise Adair was an American actress who was active in Hollywood during the silent era. She also performed on stage and in vaudeville.{{cite news |last1=Toole |first1=J. Lawrence |title=From Convent to Leading Ladyship in Musical Comedy In Three Years -- Belle Adair |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97645098/belle-adair/ |access-date=March 15, 2022 |work=The San Francisco Examiner |date=November 3, 1912 |page=44|via = Newspapers.com}}
Biography
Adair was born in San Jose, California, but moved from there at age 4. She was educated at Immaculate Heart convent in Locust Gap, Pennsylvania,{{cite news |title=Belle Adair is vaudeville's cutest kiddo |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97647666/belle-adair/ |access-date=March 15, 2022 |work=Harrisburg Daily Independent |date=January 13, 1912 |page=7|via = Newspapers.com}} and moved to New York City to study at Brooklyn Teachers Training College.
Two days after she left Immaculate Heart, she debuted in an amateur performance on a U. S. Naval Reserve boat on which her brother served. Her vaudeville debut came at Poli's Theatre in Hartford, Connecticut. In 1912, she performed as a singing comedienne at the Orpheum Theatre in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
While in New York she appeared in several films before marrying Ewald F. Buchal of Passaic, New Jersey. She died in 1926 after a period of poor health.{{Cite news|date=5 May 1926|title=Obituary: Mrs. Ewald Buchal|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/442262481/?terms=%22belle+buchal%22|access-date=2020-09-10|newspaper=The Post-Star|language=en|via=Newspapers.com|location=Glens Falls, New York}}{{Cite news|date=June 11, 1960|title=Ewald F. Buchal, Retired Passaic Liquor Dealer, Dies|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/526775799/?terms=%22belle+buchal%22|access-date=2020-09-10|newspaper=The Herald-News|language=en|via=Newspapers.com|location=Lake Mohawk, New Jersey}}
Selected filmography
- The Burden Bearer (1915)
- For the Mastery of the World (1914)
- Man of the Hour (1914)
- Mother (1914)
- Son (1914)
- Adventures in Diplomacy (1914)
- Boy (1914)
- The Character Woman (1914)
- Moonlight (1914)
- Duty (1914)
- The Greatest of These (1914)
- Wife (1914)
- The Drug Traffic (1914)
- At the Court of Prince Make Believe (1914)
- The Diamond Master (1914)
- The Good in the Worst of Us (1914)
- Coming Home (1914)
- The Case of Cherry Purcelle (1914)
- Cue and Mis-Cue (1914)
References
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Category:American film actresses
Category:American silent film actresses
Category:American vaudeville performers
Category:20th-century American actresses
Category:Actresses from Vermont
Category:People from Wallingford, Vermont
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