Lucia Moore
{{Short description|American actress (1867–1932)}}
Lucia Moore (December 10, 1867 – April 1, 1932){{cite book|page=255|title=The Ultimate Directory of the Silent Screen Performers: A Necrology of Births and Deaths and Essays on 50 Lost Players|author=Billy H. Doyle, Anthony Slide|year=1995|isbn=9780810829589|publisher=Scarecrow Press}} was an American stage and silent film actress. She appeared in plays on Broadway from 1900 through 1932; often in works written by women playwrights, such as Rachel Crothers, Anita Loos, Clare Kummer, Jean Webster, and Rida Johnson Young. She also appeared in original plays by Maxwell Anderson, Barry Conners, George Scarborough, and Edgar Selwyn.
Life and career
Born in Shreveport, Louisiana, Moore made her Broadway debut as Paulina in Stanislaus Stange's Quo Vadis at the New York Theatre which opened in April 1900.{{cite journal|journal=The Cast|page=23|date=April 23, 1900|title=Quo Vadis|volume=2|number=5}} Later that year she appeared as Alice Palmer in Theodore Kremer's The Slaves of the Orient at the Star Theatre.{{cite book|page=342|title=A History of the New York Stage from the First Performance in 1732 to 1901, Volume 2|author=Thomas Allston Brown|year=1903|publisher=Dodd, Mead & Co.}} She did not return to Broadway again until 1910 when she starred as Mrs. Comstock in Maurice Campbell's Where There's a Will with the American Play Company at Weber's Music Hall.{{cite journal|journal=The Theatre Magazine Advertiser|volume=11|page=6|year=1910|editor=W. J. Thorold |editor2=Arthur Hornblow |editor3=Perriton Maxwell|title=WEBER'S Where There's a Will}} That same year she toured nationally as Mrs. Wright in Rida Johnson Young's The Lottery Man.{{cite journal|journal=Denver Municipal Facts|page=10|date=November 5, 1910|volume=2|number=45|title=Auditorium Theatrical Season Commences}}{{cite news|work=Ogden Evening Standard|date=August 17, 1910 |page= 6 | title=The Lottery Man}}
In 1911 Moore was engaged at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham where she starred opposite the British actress Winifred Delevanti in Arthur S. Gill's The Kiss of Isis.{{cite book|title=The Era Annual: Dramatic and Musical, 1912|year=1911 |editor=Frank Desprez|location=London|page=120|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lsU_AQAAMAAJ&dq=%22Lucia+Moore%22+%22theatre%22&pg=RA1-PA120}} In 1913 she starred in George Scarborough's Broadway play The Lure, and reprised her role in the 1914 silent film of the same name.{{cite book|title=The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film|year=2011|isbn=9783110951943|publisher=Bowker-Saur|editor=Alan Goble|page=410|chapter=The Lure}} In 1914 she returned to Broadway in another play penned by Scarborough, What is love?, in the role of Mrs. Samuel Hoyt.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1914/09/21/archives/a-new-scarborough-in-what-is-love-author-of-the-lure-gives-a-comedy.html|title=A NEW SCARBOROUGH IN 'WHAT IS LOVE?'; Author of "The Lure" Gives a Comedy Full of Promise of Fine Work Ahead|work=The New York Times|page=7|date=September 21, 1914}}
In 1919 Moore created the role of Mrs. Smith in the original Broadway production of Rachel Crothers's 39 East;{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1919/04/01/archives/drama.html|title=Drama|author= John Corbin|work=The New York Times|date=April 1, 1919}} a role she also performed in the 1920 silent film.{{cite book|last=Roberts|first=Jerry|title=The Great American Playwrights on the Screen: A Critical Guide to Film, TV, Video, and DVD|year=2003|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|isbn=1-55783-512-8|page=126}} She created roles in several more plays written by women on Broadway, including Mrs. Wolfe in Laura Hinkley and Mabel Ferris's Another Man's Shoes (1918),{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1918/09/13/archives/mystery-comedy-is-another-mans-shoes-aphasia-the-theme-and-mistaken.html|date=September 13, 1918|page= 9|work=The New York Times|title=MYSTERY COMEDY IS 'ANOTHER MAN'S SHOES'; Aphasia the Theme and Mistaken Identity the Humor of Play with Lionel Atwill Hero}} The Governor's Wife in Cora Dick Gantt's The Tavern (1920), Mary Vaughan in Clare Kummer's The Mountain Men (1921), and Mrs. Simmons in Anita Loos and John Emerson's The Whole Town's Talking (1923).{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mmr35sTB0AoC&dq=%22Lucia+Moore%22+%22theatre%22&pg=PA212|title=American theatre : a chronicle of comedy and drama, 1914-1930|page=212|author=Gerald Bordman|year= 1995|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780195090789}} She also portrayed Miss Pritchard in the 1918 Broadway revival of Jean Webster's Daddy-Long-Legs.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1918/11/18/archives/daddy-long-legs-is-back-again-jean-websters-sentimental-comedy-of.html|title='DADDY LONG LEGS' IS BACK AGAIN; Jean Webster's Sentimental Comedy of the Foundling Home Heroine Triumphantly Revived|work=The New York Times|date=November 18, 1918|page=13}}
Moore's other film credits include Caprice of the Mountains (1916),{{cite book|title=The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36|publisher=December Press|author=Robert B. Connelly|year=1998|page=42}} Nancy Allen in Little Miss Happiness (1916),{{cite book|page=235|title=The Fox Film Corporation, 1915-1935: A History and Filmography|author=Aubrey Solomon|year=2014|isbn=9780786486106|chapter=Little Miss Happiness|publisher=McFarland & Company}} Lady Clifford in Her Double Life (1916),{{cite book|page=251|title=Vamp: The Rise and Fall of Theda Bara|isbn=9781887322003|author=Eve Golden|year=1996|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EaZITxJIFq8C&dq=%22Lucia+Moore%22+%22Her+Double+Life%22&pg=PA251|publisher=Emprise Publishing}} and the Mother in The Small Town Girl (1917).{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XaoiAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22Lucia+Moore%22+%22The+Small+Town+Girl%22&pg=RA9-PA65|title=The Small Town Girl|magazine=Billboard|date=June 9, 1917|page=65}} Her other roles in original plays on Broadway included Mrs. Springer in Edgar Selwyn's Anything Might Happen (1923), Mrs. Harrington in Barry Conners's The Patsy (1925), Mrs. Halevy in Maxwell Anderson's Saturday's Children (1927), Mrs. Weaver in J. C. and Elliott Nugent's Take My Advice (1927), Mrs. James Russell Lockhart Sr. in Barry Conners's Girl Trouble (1928), and Mrs. Farquhar in Don Mullally and H. A. Archibald's Coastwise (1931).{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1931/12/01/archives/the-play-frimls-early-tunes-revived.html|title=The Play: Honor in the Big Woods|author=Brooks Atkinson|work=The New York Times|page=23|date=December 1, 1931}}
Moore died in New York City on April 1, 1932.{{cite news|url=https://www.playbill.com/person/lucia-moore-vault-0000092319|title=Lucia Moore|work=Playbill|accessdate=May 29, 2023}}
References
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External links
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Category:Actresses from Shreveport, Louisiana
Category:American silent film actresses