Mildred Manning
{{Short description|American 20th-century actress}}
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Mildred Manning was an actress who appeared in films. She had a starring role in the 1917 film adaptation of Edith Ellis' play Mary Jane's Pa.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZHhJAQAAMAAJ&dq=mildred.manning&pg=PA341|title=Nickelodeon|date=September 30, 1917|via=Google Books}} She was also cast in a starring role in Next Door to Nancy. She was cast as the heroine in The Princess of Park Row.
She performed in Broadway shows with singing and dancing roles where she was discovered by D. W. Griffith who cast her in Biograph films. She later worked with Vitagraph.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rl4hAQAAMAAJ&dq=mildred.manning&pg=RA5-PA49|title=Motion Picture Classic|date=September 30, 1915|via=Google Books}} She was an outdoors enthusiast who rode horses and shot rifles.
She was in the O. Henry series produced by Broadway Star Features Co.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3YVZAAAAMAAJ&q=mildred.manning|title=The Reel Cowboy: Essays on the Myth in Movies and Literature|first=Buck|last=Rainey|date=September 30, 1996|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-0106-2 |via=Google Books}} (part of Vitagraph).
Filmography
- A Chance Deception (1913) as Raffles' Woman
- A Mother's Atonement (1915) as Dorothy Hilton
- An Enemy to the King (1916) as Jeanotte
- Vanity and Some Sables (1917){{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lWtDAQAAMAAJ&dq=variety+and+some+sables+%22mildred+manning%22&pg=RA22-PA31|title=Dramatic Mirror of the Stage and Motion Pictures|date=September 30, 1917|publisher=Dramatic Mirror Company|via=Google Books}}
- The Last Leaf (1917)
- Love Philtre of Ikey Schoenstein (1917)
- Gold that Glittered (1917)
- The Green Door (1917)
- The Mraionettes (1917)
- Past One at Roomey's (1917)
- The Third Ingredient (1917)
- The Thing's the Play (1917)
- A Service of Love (1917){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yyqc0Qa6b60C&dq=%22broadway+star+features%22+films+%22mildred+manning%22&pg=PA218|title=The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film|first=Alan|last=Goble|date=September 8, 2011|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|isbn=978-3-11-095194-3 |via=Google Books}}
- The Princess of Park Row (1917) as Margot{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yWmjDwAAQBAJ&dq=mildred.manning&pg=PT3|title=The Rise and Fall of the Ku Klux Klan in New Jersey|first1=Joseph G.|last1=Bilby|first2=Harry|last2=Ziegler|date=October 25, 2011|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=978-1-4396-6769-9 |via=Google Books}}
- The Marriage Speculation (1917) as Clara Wilson
- Mary Jane's Pa (1917) as Mary Jane
- The Unchastened Woman (1918){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wDzGAgAAQBAJ&dq=mildred.manning&pg=PA279|title=Silent Movies & Early Sound Films on DVD: New Expanded Edition|first=John Howard|last=Reid|date=August 1, 2011|publisher=Lulu.com|isbn=978-0-557-43335-3 |via=Google Books}} as Emily Madden
- The Westerners (1919) as Prue Welch / Molly Lafond
- Kitty Kelly, M.D. (1919) as Lola
- The Foolish Matrons (1921)
- While Paris Sleeps (1923) as model Bebe Larvache
- The Acquittal (1923) as Mrs. Crown
References
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External links
- [https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/228804271/mildred-manning Findagrave entry]
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Category:American silent film actresses