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Virginia Tracy

{{short description|American novelist}}

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| name = Virginia Tracy

| image = VirginiaTracy1915.jpg

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| caption = Virginia Tracy, from a 1915 publication.

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| birth_date = 1874

| birth_place = New York City, U.S.

| death_date = March 4, 1946

| death_place = New York City, U.S.

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| occupation = Actress, writer

| yearsactive = 1890s–1930s

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| parents = John McCullough
Helen Tracy (mother)[https://web.archive.org/web/20180826043849/https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/jvMAAOSwrJBbKPox/s-l1600.jpg portrait of Helen Tracy; ..Old Judge Cigarettes](Wayback Machine)[https://cabinetcardgallery.com/2008/12/30/helen-tracy-stage-actress/ Helen Tracy; portrait, CabinetCard]

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Virginia Tracy (1874–March 4, 1946)Silent Film Necrology, p.526 2nd edition c.2001 by Eugene M. Vazzana was an American adventurer, stage actress, novelist and screenwriter. In the newspaper world she wrote primarily for the New York Tribune.[https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1920-05-23/ed-1/seq-73/#date1=1894&index=8&rows=20&words=TRACY+Tracy+Virginia+VIRGINIA&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1929&proxtext=Virginia+Tracy&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1 New York Tribune]; Sunday May 23, 1920; Shakespeare Would Have Written Scenarios, Says Sothern

Biography

She was the daughter of Victorian actress Helen Tracy (1850–1924).{{cite web |title=Virginia Tracy |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/virginia-tracy-62579 |website=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |accessdate=8 August 2019 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190808023710/https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/virginia-tracy-62579 |archivedate=8 August 2019}} and Shakespearean actor John McCullough.{{cite journal |title=Writes Bright Stories |journal=American Musician |date=February 1902 |volume=VI |issue=2 |page=4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W2UOwZxKzWEC&q=%22Virginia+Tracy%22+actress&pg=RA1-PA4 |accessdate=8 August 2019}}see..Helen Tracy;CabinetCard

At 20, in 1894, she wrote one of her first professional reports after accompanying a caravan of actors led by Maurice Barrymore traveling cross country on train.Great Times, Good Times: The Odyssey of Maurice Barrymore by James Kotsilibas Davis c.1977 In the 1920s she wrote several large scale epics for the Fox Film Corporation.

Tracy's Broadway credits as an actress included Escape This Night (1938), Sweet Mystery of Life (1935), Post Road (1934), Jig Saw (1934), And Be My Love, (1934), Lone Valley (1933), Bulls, Bears and Asses (1932), Wild Waves (1932), and Up York State (1901).

On March 4, 1946, Tracy died in New York City. She apparently had never married.{{Citation needed |date=August 2019}}

Works

  • Merely Players: The Stories of Stage Life (1909)[https://books.google.com/books?id=tfAWAAAAYAAJ&q=Virginia+Tracy Merely Players: Stories of Stage Life c.1909 by Virginia Tracy]
  • Persons Unknown (1914)[https://books.google.com/books?id=hKAcAAAAMAAJ&dq=Virginia+Tracy&pg=PP1 Person's Unknown by Virginia Tracy c.1914; GoogleBooks.com]
  • Starring Dulcy Jayne (1927)[https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/EqIAAOSw03lY69Mv/s-l1600.jpg Starring Dulcy Jayne by Virginia Tracy; book cover sleeve c.1927]
  • Moment After (1930)
  • The Personal Appearance of a Lioness (1937)

Filmography

References

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External links

  • [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0870571/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1 Virginia Tracy at IMDb.com]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20180826043911/https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/mjoAAOSwFuZbLTjd/s-l1600.jpg portrait of Virginia Tracy](Wayback)
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20180826043935/https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/eUIAAOSwLORbLTjd/s-l1600.jpg portrait head shot](Wayback)

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Category:1874 births

Category:1946 deaths

Category:Screenwriters from New York (state)

Category:Actresses from New York City

Category:American women novelists

Category:American women screenwriters

Category:Novelists from New York City

Category:20th-century American actresses

Category:20th-century American women writers

Category:20th-century American novelists

Category:20th-century American screenwriters

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