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Catherine Calvert

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{{short description|American actress}}

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| name = Catherine Calvert

| image = Catherine Calvert from Who's Who on the Screen.jpg

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| caption = From Who's Who on the Screen, 1920

| birth_name = Catherine Cassidy

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1890|4|20}}

| birth_place = Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1971|1|18|1890|4|20}}

| death_place = Uniondale, New York, U.S.

| spouse = {{plainlist|

  • {{marriage|Paul Armstrong|1913|1915|end=d}}
  • {{marriage|George A. Carruthers|1925|1952|end=d}}

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| children = 1

| occupation = Actress

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Catherine Calvert (born Catherine Cassidy; April 20, 1890 – January 18, 1971) was an American actress.

Biography

The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cassidy, Catherine Calvert was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland.Hines, Dixie; Hanaford, Harry Prescott, eds. (1914). "Calvert, Catherine (Catherine Calvert Cassidy)". [https://books.google.com/books?id=tpafAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA60 Who's Who in Music and Drama]. New York: H. P. Hanaford, p. 60.

She made her stage debut in the play Brown of Harvard in September 1908, in Albany, New York. On Broadway, she portrayed Doris Moore in The Deep Purple (1911),{{cite news |title=New Play Of Crooks Seen At The Lyric |work=The New York Times |date=January 10, 1911 |location=New York, New York |page=4 |via = NYTimes.com}}{{cite news |last=Darnton |first=Charles |title=The New Plays |work=The Evening World |date=January 11, 1911 |location=New York, New York |page=19 |via = Newspapers.com}} May Joyce in The Escape (1913), and Dona Sol in Blood and Sand (1921).{{cite web |title=Catherine Calvert |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/catherine-calvert-34294 |website=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |accessdate=August 9, 2020 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809185238/https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/catherine-calvert-34294 |archivedate=August 9, 2020}}

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).{{cite book|title=Who's Who on the Screen|year=1920|editor1-last=Fox |editor1-first=Charles Donald |editor2-last=Silver |editor2-first=Milton L.|location=New York|publisher=Ross Publishing|chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/whoswhoonscreen00foxc#page/272/mode/1up|chapter=Catherine Calvert |page=272}}

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.

Calvert married Armstrong in New Haven in 1913.{{cite news |title=Wife for Paul Armstrong |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57012645/catherine-calvert/ |accessdate=August 9, 2020 |work=The Kansas City Star |date=December 20, 1913 |location=Missouri, Kansas City |page=2|via = Newspapers.com}} They remained wed until his death in 1915.{{cite news |title=Paul Armstrong Dead |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57014524/the-baltimore-sun/ |accessdate=August 9, 2020 |work=The Baltimore Sun |date=August 31, 1915 |location=Maryland, Baltimore |page=1|via = Newspapers.com}} She later married Canadian grain exporter George A. Carruthers, who died in 1952.{{cite news |title=Miss Calvert, Actress, at 80 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57015561/catherine-calvert/ |accessdate=August 9, 2020 |work=The Philadelphia Inquirer |date=January 20, 1971 |page=54|via = Newspapers.com}}

In 1971, Calvert died in Uniondale, New York, at age 80.

Filmography

File:Marriage for Convenience.jpg

References

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External links

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  • {{IBDB name|34294}}
  • [http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?parent_id=501335&word= Catherine Calvert] photo gallery NY Public Library Billy Rose Collection
  • [http://www.corbisimages.com/Search/SearchResults.aspx?q=catherine+calvert Catherine Calvert] portraits at Corbis

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Category:1971 deaths

Category:1890 births

Category:20th-century American actresses

Category:Actresses from Baltimore

Category:American silent film actresses

Category:American stage actresses

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