June Elvidge
June Elvidge | |
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St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S. | |
Died | May 1, 1965 , U.S. | (aged 71)
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1914–1925 |
Spouse | Britton Busch |
June Elvidge (June 30, 1893 – May 1, 1965) was an early 20th-century silent film actress. She was of English and Irish descent.[1]
Biography
Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, Elvidge attended Pennsylvania College and was a concert singer before she began acting.[2]
Elvidge debuted in Passing Show of 1914, produced by
silent movies such as The Lure of Woman (1915) and The Poison Pen (1919).[4]
On Broadway, Elvidge portrayed Nina Romaine in The Girl in the Spotlight (1920).[5]
Elvidge began working in films with the World Film stock company in 1915. Her film debut occurred in The Lure of Woman.Orpheum Circuit, Inc., in vaudeville. She retired from show business around 1925.[4]
Elvidge died in 1965 at the Mary Lee Nursing Home in Eatontown, New Jersey. She was 71 years old, the widow of Britton Busch, a stockbroker.[4]
Partial filmography
- The Rack (1915)
- The Price of Pride (1917)
- La Bohème (1916)
- The Almighty Dollar (1916)
- A Girl's Folly (1917)
- The Marriage Market (1917)
- The Family Honor (1917)
- The Social Leper (1917)
- The Tenth Case (1917)
- The Strong Way (1917)
- Youth (1917)
- The Page Mystery (1917)
- A Square Deal (1917)
- Shall We Forgive Her? (1917)
- The Red Woman (1917)
- The Crimson Dove (1917)
- The Whip (1917)
- The Guardian (1917)
- Rasputin, The Black Monk(1917)
- Stolen Orders (1918)
- Three Green Eyes (1919)
- The Social Pirate (1919)
- Almost Married (1919)
- Fine Feathers (1921)
- Beauty's Worth (1922)
- Beyond the Rocks (1922)
- The Impossible Mrs. Bellew (1922)
- The Power of a Lie (1922)
- Quincy Adams Sawyer (1922)
- Thelma (1922)
- Forsaking All Others (1922)
- The Woman Conquers (1922)
- The Prisoner (1923)
- Temptation (1923)
- The Dancer of the Nile (1923)
- Painted People (1924)
- Pagan Passions (1924)
- The Right of the Strongest (1924)
- The Torrent (1924)
- Chalk Marks (1924)
References
- ^ June Elvidge. Photoplay magazine. 1924.
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ignored (help) - ^ Fox, Charles Donald; Silver, Milton L. (1920). Who's who on the Screen. Ross publishing Company. p. 254. Retrieved July 24, 2020.
- ^ a b "Miss June Elvidge". The Moving Picture World. January 1, 1916. p. 88. Retrieved July 24, 2020.
- ^ a b c "June Elvidge obituary". The New York Times. May 3, 1965. p. 33.
- ^ "June Elvidge". Internet Broadway Database. The Broadway League. Archived from the original on July 24, 2020. Retrieved July 24, 2020.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to June Elvidge.
- June Elvidge at IMDb
- 1925 passport photo (courtesy of the Puzzlemaster, flickr)