Elinor Field
{{Short description|American actress (1902–1998)}}
{{For|the children's book author|Elinor Whitney Field}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Elinor Field
| image = Elinor Field 1918 EH 2.jpg
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| caption = Field in 1918
| birth_name = Eleanor Field
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1902|01|04|mf=yes}}
| birth_place = Plymouth, Pennsylvania, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1998|02|24|1902|01|04|mf=yes}}
| death_place = Chestertown, Maryland, U.S.
| other_names =
| occupation = Actress
| years_active = 1917{{ndash}}1934
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Elinor Field (born Eleanor Field; January 4, 1902 – February 24, 1998){{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xtCKDwAAQBAJ&q=%22elinor+field%22+1998&pg=PA1963|title=Slapstick Divas: The Women of Silent Comedy|first=Steve|last=Massa|publisher=BearManor Media|via=Google Books}} was an American film actress who was one of Mack Sennett's Sennett Bathing Beauties.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QivgDAAAQBAJ&q=elinor+field+jungle&pg=PA127|title=Col. William N. Selig, the Man Who Invented Hollywood|first=Andrew A.|last=Erish|date=March 1, 2012|publisher=University of Texas Press|isbn=9780292728707|via=Google Books}} She also starred in the 15-episode serial The Jungle Goddess (1922).{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vL_eCQAAQBAJ&q=elinor+field+jungle&pg=PA127|title=Serials and Series: A World Filmography, 1912-1956|first=Buck|last=Rainey|date=June 8, 2015|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9781476604480|via=Google Books}}
Biography
Elinor Field was born on January 4, 1902, in Plymouth, Pennsylvania, USA, as Eleanor Field. She began acting straight out of high school. Although she appeared in more than thirty films, Field never became a major star.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f3e5ff8|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200711052011/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f3e5ff8|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 11, 2020|title=Elinor Field|website=BFI}} She died on February 24, 1998, in Chestertown, Maryland at the age of 96.
Selected filmography
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File:The Blue Moon (1920) - 2.jpg (1920) with Pell Trenton, Herbert Standing, and Elinor Field.]]
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- The Pullman Bride (1917) as a Mack Sennett Bathing Beauty (uncredited)
- Are Waitresses Safe? (1917) uncredited
- How to be Happy Though Married (1919)
- The Blue Moon (1920)
- The Kentucky Colonel (1920)
- Once to Every Woman (1920) as Virginia Meredith
- Hearts and Masks (1921)
- Little Eva Ascends (1922)
- The Purple Riders (1922)
- The Leather Pushers (1922)
- The Jungle Goddess (1922), a 15-episode serial
- Don Quickshot of the Rio Grande (1923), starring role
- Blinky (1923) as Priscilla Islip
- Single Handed (1923) as Ruth Randolph
- The Red Warning (1923) as Louise Ainslee
References
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External links
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- {{IMDb name|0275928}}
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Category:American film actresses