Irma Harrison
{{short description|American film actress}}
{{Infobox person
|name = Irma Harrison
|image = Irma Harrison and Gareth Hughes 1919.jpg
|caption = Harrison (left) with Gareth Hughes, 1919
|birth_date = {{birth date|1903|02|24}}
|birth_place = New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
|death_date = {{death date and age|1975|01|22|1903|02|24}}
|death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.
|occupation = Film actress
}}
Irma Harrison (February 24, 1903 – January 22, 1975) was an American film actress. She starred in the films Love's Penalty (1921) and The Yellowback (1929).
Virginia Flohri sang a song she acted out as Toots in the 1929 film Alibi.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p28lDQAAQBAJ&dq=%22irma+harrison%22&pg=PA119 | title=Celluloid Symphonies: Texts and Contexts in Film Music History | isbn=9780520241015 | last1=Hubbert | first1=Julie | date=2 March 2011 | publisher=University of California Press }} She performed wearing burnt cork (blackface) in D. W. Griffith's 1922 film One Exciting Night.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yxupgt6nNFMC&dq=%22irma+harrison%22&pg=PA133 | isbn=978-1-55849-934-8 | title=Burnt Cork: Traditions and Legacies of Blackface Minstrelsy | date=2012 | publisher=Univ of Massachusetts Press }}
Filmography
- The Red Viper (1919) as Yolanda Kosloff{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yiqtSteBU-8C&dq=%22irma+harrison%22&pg=RA1-PT225 | isbn=978-0-8131-4163-3 | title=John Gilbert: The Last of the Silent Film Stars | date=12 April 2013 | publisher=University Press of Kentucky }}
- The Fighting Kentuckians
- Love's Penalty (1921) as Sally Clayton
- The Daughter of Devil Dan{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_TC7IqzSUmsC&dq=%22irma+harrison%22&pg=PA57 | isbn=978-1-4349-4640-9 | title=Where the Movies Played in Downtown Pittsburg(h) | publisher=Dorrance }} (1921)
- One Exciting Night (1922){{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K5RYAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22irma+harrison%22&pg=RA2-PA335 | title=Educational Screen and Audiovisual Guide | date=1922 }} as The Colored Maid{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dOXxDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22irma+harrison%22&pg=PA139 | isbn=978-1-83902-000-1 | title=The Griffith Project, Volume 10: Films Produced 1919-1946 | date=25 July 2019 | publisher=Bloomsbury }}
- His Darker Self (1924) as Darktown's Cleopatra{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oJYZDgAAQBAJ&dq=%22irma+harrison%22&pg=PA109 | isbn=978-0-7864-5429-7 | title=Silent Mystery and Detective Movies: A Comprehensive Filmography | date=21 October 2009 | publisher=McFarland }}
- For Woman's Favor (1924) as The Lamb
- Lena Rivers (1925) as Anne Nichols
- Lilies of the Streets (1925) as Margy{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vOxzDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22irma+harrison%22&pg=PA106 | isbn=978-1-4766-7568-8 | title="Bare Knees" Flapper: The Life and Films of Virginia Lee Corbin | date=November 2018 | publisher=McFarland }} Hopkins
- Alibi (1929) as Toots
- The Yellowback (1929) as Elsie Loisel
- Dad's Day (1929){{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M7vwCQAAQBAJ&dq=%22irma+harrison%22&pg=PA70 | isbn=978-1-4766-0684-2 | title=The First Hollywood Sound Shorts, 1926-1931 | date=14 June 2015 | publisher=McFarland }}
- Vengeance (1930) as Nidia
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0365633}}
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Category:Actresses from New Orleans
Category:American film actresses
Category:20th-century American actresses
Category:American silent film actresses
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