Elinor Field

{{Short description|American actress (1902–1998)}}

{{For|the children's book author|Elinor Whitney Field}}

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| 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.

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| 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

File:Hearts and Masks (1921) - 1.jpg (1921).]]

File:The Blue Moon (1920) - 2.jpg (1920) with Pell Trenton, Herbert Standing, and Elinor Field.]]

File:The Jungle Goddess (1922) - 1.jpg

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