Lawrence Marston

Lawrence Marston (June 8, 1857 – February 1, 1939) was an American actor, playwright, producer, stage director and film director.{{Citation needed |date=July 2021}}

Biography

Marston was born to a Jewish family in Hammerstadt, Bohemia, Austrian Empire (now Vlastějovice in the Czech Republic).{{Cite web|last=Marston|date=1923|title=United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925|url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV5Y-NCKH|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=FamilySearch}} Naturalized in Chicago, he lived mainly in New York City.Robert E. Weir (1996) Beyond Labor's Veil: The Culture of the Knights of Labor, Penn State Press After working as an actor, producer and director for the stage, he became a film director with the Biograph Studios.Robert Grau (1914) The Theatre of Science

His first wife was actress Lillian Lewis, who he married in 1888.{{Cite encyclopedia|year=1900|title=Lewis, Lillian|encyclopedia=Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events|publisher=D. Appleton & Company|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uUsoAAAAMAAJ&dq=Appletons%27+Annual+Cyclopaedia+Lillian+lewis&pg=PA873|page=617}}

Marston's second wife Anna Cornelia Delves was billed as Mrs. Lawrence Marston.{{Cite web|last=Marston|date=1934|title=New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949|url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2WV6-L8Z|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=FamilySearch}} With her, he had his only daughter, Anna Lawrence Marston, who was baptized Catholic at age 12.{{Cite web|last=Marston|date=1913|title=New Jersey Births and Christenings, 1660-1980|url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:H7WP-8BPZ|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=FamilySearch}}

Lawrence Marston died February 1, 1939, in Manhattan.{{Cite web|last=Marston|date=1939|title=New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949|url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2W2Q-R65|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=FamilySearch}} His ashes were interred into the mausoleum of Ferncliff Cemetery.{{Citation needed |date=July 2021}}

Works

;Playwright

An Innocent Sinner (1896)
The Widow Goldstein (1897)
For Liberty and Love (1897)
The Helmet of Navarre (1901)
The Penitent (1902) from Hall Caine's novel A Son of Hagar
The Little Mother (1902)
A Remarkable Case (1902)
After Midnight (1904)
When the World Sleeps (1905)
Jeanne D'arc (1906)

;Screenwriter

The Warfare of the Flesh (1917) scenario
The Border Legion (1918)
A Man of Iron (1925) adaptation

;Stage director

The Monster (1922) play by Crane Wilbur
Death Takes a Holiday (1929) with Katharine Hepburn (both actress and director were fired during the run) William J. Mann (2007) Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn , Macmillan and Co. {{ISBN|978-0-312-42740-5}}

;Film director