Lillian Cook
{{short description|American actress}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Lillian Cook
| image = Betsy_Ross_(1917)_-_2.jpg
| caption = Cook (right) in Betsy Ross (1917)
| birth_name = Lillian Agnes Cook
| birth_date = May 16, 1898
| birth_place = Hot Springs, Arkansas, US
| death_date = {{death date and age|1918|3|14|1898|5|16}}
| death_place = New York City, US
| resting_place = Spring Grove Cemetery
| family =
}}
Lillian Cook was an American actress who was active in Hollywood during the silent era.
Biography
Cook was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas, to Joseph Cook and his wife Martha.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=14 Feb 1917|title=Clara Kimball Young in 'The Common Law'|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/287976449/?terms=%22lillian+cook%22|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-09-10|website=Hot Springs New Era|language=en}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=saMbAQAAMAAJ&q=%22lillian+cook%22+actress&pg=PA637|title=The Moving Picture World|date=1916|publisher=World Photographic Publishing Company|language=en}} An only child, she grew up primarily in Cincinnati before she moved to New York to pursue a career on the stage.
Cook died in her Manhattan apartment at the Hotel Remington at age 19 after appearing in dozens of silent films.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2 Apr 1918|title=Film Favorite Facts|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/616679475/?terms=%22lillian%2Bcook%22|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-09-10|website=The Sacramento Bee|language=en}}{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=18 Jul 1918|title=The Cinema Girl's Chats of the Films|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/253311169/?terms=%22lillian+cook%22|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-09-10|website=Press and Sun-Bulletin|language=en}}{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=20 Mar 1918|title=Lillian Cook Dies|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/291852146/?terms=%22lillian+cook%22|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-09-10|website=News-Journal|language=en}} Her early death may have been caused by her role as a fairy in Maurice Tourneur's The Blue Bird a year earlier: according to one account, the heavy wings that were part of her costume injured her spine and caused tuberculosis.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=24 Mar 1918|title=The Silent Drama|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/34201484/?terms=%22lillian+cook%22|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-09-10|website=The Cincinnati Enquirer|language=en}}
Selected filmography
- The Blue Bird (1918)
- The Devil's Playground (1917)
- The Honeymoon (1917)
- Her Hour (1917)
- The Corner Grocer (1917)
- Betsy Ross (1917)
- Rasputin, the Black Monk (1917)
- Beloved Adventuress (1917)
- The Submarine Eye (1917)
- Darkest Russia (1917)
- The Common Law (1916)
- Sudden Riches (1916)
- As in a Looking Glass (1916)
- A Woman's Power (1916)
- Camille (1915)
- The Cotton King (1915)
- Mother (1914)
References
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Category:American film actresses
Category:American silent film actresses
Category:20th-century American actresses
Category:Actresses from Hot Springs, Arkansas
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