Frances Raymond

Frances Raymond
Los Angeles, California , United States
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1915–1947 (film)

Frances Raymond (1869–1961) was an American

, she primarily played much smaller, uncredited parts.

Raymond was the daughter of Frederick Lapzieu of Brooklyn.^[2]

Career

Raymond's acting career ended in 1894.^[3] She acted with the Frohman road companies^[4] and had been performing in The Girl I Left Behind Me in Memphis when she and the management parted ways. Management of Charles Frohman's company said that she had been incompetent, while she said that she angered a company official by resisting his advances.^[5]

Turning from acting to writing, Raymond spent almost three years working on a novel, Maylou, which the G. W. Dillingham Company published in 1897. Critics attacked the book's plot and style, compounding its lack of success while creating "a sort of ephemeral notoriety" for it.^[5] That lack of success led to her becoming "melancholy and morose".^[6]

Personal life

In 1892, Raymond married businessman Franklin Raymond Wallace, Some time later "she discovered that Wallace was a married man with a daughter nearly as old as herself."^[4] He settled a lawsuit that she had filed by promising to pay her $100 per month. By 1896, she said that he had stopped those payments. Therefore, she sued him for $50,000.^[4] Later, Raymond felt deserted by a young doctor whom she had "loved deeply"^[6] after he had paid "marked attention" to her for two years before telling her that he intended to marry someone else.^[2]

Death

On June 18, 1961, Raymond died of asphyxiation in her New York apartment.^[6] She committed suicide by inhaling gas^[7] in her New York City apartment after she had closed off the keyhole and the space under the door and removed three of the chandelier's four gas burners.^[5]

Selected filmography

References

External links

• Frances Raymond at
  IMDb

Bibliography

• Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.