Edna Maison

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{{short description|American actress}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = Edna Maison

| image = Edna Maison Movie Card.jpg

| caption = Maison, 1910s

| birth_date = 17 August 1892

| birth_place = San Francisco, California, U.S.

| death_date = 11 January 1946 (aged 53)

| death_place = Hollywood, California, U.S.

| othername =

| occupation = Actress

| years_active = 1912–1926

}}

Edna Maison (born Carmen Edna Maisonneuve{{cite magazine |last=Ames |first=Hector |date=November 1915 |page=59 |title=Edna Maison: Universal Star Whose Name Recalls One of the Noblest Families of Old France |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tVZJAQAAMAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=%22Edna%20Maison%22&pg=RA2-PA59#v=onepage&q=%22Edna%20Maison%22&f=true |magazine=Motion Picture Supplement |access-date=December 27, 2024 }} or Carmen Edna Maisonave; August 17, 1892{{Citation needed |date=November 2024}} – January 11, 1946) was an American silent film actress.

Maison was born Carmen Edna Maisonave{{cite journal |title=(untitled brief) |journal=Motography |date=March 18, 1916 |volume=XV |issue=12 |page=657 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a3lJAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22Carmen+Edna+Maisonave%22&pg=PA657 |access-date=January 16, 2022 |language=en}} in San Francisco. Her father was a Frenchman and her mother was American. She was educated in Los Angeles at the Immaculate Heart Academy and her first job involved working with the Cooper Stock Company at the Burbank Theater in Los Angeles at the age of 6. Edna Maison's career started in Opera, singing at the Tivoli opera-house in San Francisco at age 15. Following, she went to Fisher's Theater, the California Opera Company, and lastly with the Edgar Temple Opera Company before moving into film work. {{cite web |title=Hard Work Is Her Doctrine |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/299822469/?terms=edna%2Bmaison |website=Newspapers |publisher=The Marion Star |access-date=6 November 2020}} Maison was described as an earth mother type who loved animals. {{cite book |last1=Waggoner |first1=Linda M. |title=Starring Red Wing! : The Incredible Career of Lilian M. St. Cyr, the First Native American Film Star |date=2019 |publisher=Bison Books |pages=504 |jstor=j.ctvqc6hc5 |isbn=9781496215598 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvqc6hc5 |access-date=6 November 2020}}

Maison starred in a total of 85 films between 1912 and 1926 in films such as The Idol of Bonanza Camp (1913) and Undine (1916) and appearing with actors such as Harry von Meter.

Maison died on January 11, 1946, aged 52, after having been ill for four years.{{cite news |title=Edna Maison |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1946/01/14/archives/obituary-4-no-title.html |access-date=December 27, 2024 |work=The New York Times |agency=Associated Press |date=January 14, 1946 |page=19|url-access=subscription }}