Marguerite Snow

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Marguerite Snow
Snow in 1917
Born(1889-09-09)September 9, 1889
Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.
DiedFebruary 17, 1958(1958-02-17) (aged 68)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Other namesMargaret Snow
Years active1911–1925
Spouses
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(m. 1913; div. 1923)​
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Marguerite Snow (September 9, 1889 – February 17, 1958)[1] was an American silent film and stage actress. In her early films she was billed as Margaret Snow.[2]

Early life

Snow was born in

summer stock plays.[4] While she lived in Denver, she studied acting.[5]

Career

Snow became an actress at an early age and played many parts while still a child. Her stage career did not begin in earnest until she was sixteen years old. Her first engagement was with James O'Neill in a revival of The Count of Monte Cristo,[2] at the Crawford Theatre in Wichita, Kansas, on February 11, 1907.[5]: 127  She played in The College Widow, Mrs. Temple's Telegram, as Elsa in The Devil, and at the Bijou Theater, Wheeling, where as leading lady of the stock company she played ten different parts.[citation needed] On Broadway, she performed in The Devil (1908) and The Other Fellow (1910).[6]

Beginning in 1911, Snow gained prominence in silent films made by the Kinemacolor Company, the

MGM. In 1911 she starred in films such as The Moth and The Buddhist Priestess. Some of her later feature pictures are Baseball and Bloomers (1911), A Niagara Honeymoon (1912), The Caged Bird (1913), The Silent Voice (1915), A Corner in Cotton (1916), Broadway Jones (1917), The Veiled Woman (1922), and Kit Carson Over The Great Divide (1925). In Broadway Jones Snow played a pretty stenographer at the Jones' gun factory as the movie's leading lady. This was the first Artcraft photoplay of George M. Cohan
. She never made a movie after the introduction of sound to films.

Marriages

Snow was married twice. Her first wedding was in January 1913 to Jens Bosen, a director, whose professional name was

Hollywood, California
, from 1933 until the late 1950s.

In 1933 Snow's daughter, Julie Jane Cruze, was given nine pieces of property by her father at a time when he feared he might die of a heart ailment. The properties were located in

La Canada, California. Julie Jane shared some of the $150,000 in income derived from the bequest with her mother, who was destitute and was living in a trailer. The daughter filed a cross complaint in October 1938 to block a suit by James Cruze to quiet title
to the property and return it to him. Julie Jane stated that her father originally gave her the property to avoid losing it to creditors.

Death

In 1957 Snow underwent a kidney operation. Complications occurred, and she died, aged 68, at the

Forest Lawn Memorial Park.[8]

Partial filmography

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 978-0-786-44693-3
    .
  2. ^ a b c d Bartlett, Randolph (September 1918). "She Never Worked for Griffith". Photoplay Magazine. XIV (4): 69–70, 112. Retrieved October 22, 2019.
  3. ^ "Register". search.ancestry.com. Retrieved September 29, 2023.
  4. ISBN 9781317718963
    . Retrieved October 22, 2019.
  5. ^ a b Briscoe, Johnson (November 1914). "Why Famous Film Favorites Forsook Footlighs' Fascinations For Filmdom Fame". Photoplay Magazine: 124–132. Retrieved January 6, 2022.
  6. ^ "Marguerite Snow". Internet Broadway Database. The Broadway League. Archived from the original on October 22, 2019. Retrieved October 22, 2019.
  7. ^ Special to The New York Times. “MARGUERITE SNOW.” New York Times (1923-) February 18,1958.
  8. ^ "SNOW, Marguerite". www.thanhouser.org. Retrieved August 26, 2022.
  9. IMDb Edit this at Wikidata

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