Marie Osborne Yeats
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Marie Osborne Yeats | |
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Denver, Colorado, U.S. | |
Died | November 11, 2010 San Clemente, California, U.S. | (aged 99)
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Years active | 1914–1977 |
Spouses | Frank J. Dempsey
(m. 1931; div. 1936)Murray F. Yeats
(m. 1945; died 1975) |
Marie Osborne Yeats (born Helen Alice Myres; November 5, 1911 – November 11, 2010), credited as Baby Marie between 1914 and 1919, was an American actress who was the first major
Biography
Early life and child star
Osborne was born as Helen Alice Myres in
Osborne was signed to a lucrative contract with Balboa Films (and working with director Henry King and writer Clara Beranger), by the age of five she was starring in silent films, including her best-remembered movie, Little Mary Sunshine, from 1916,[3] one of her few surviving films. Some of her other films are Maid of the Wild (1915), Sunshine and Gold (1917), What Baby Forgot (1917), Daddy's Girl (1918), The Locked Heart (1918), Winning Grandma (1918), The Sawdust Doll (1919), and Daddy Number Two (1919).
At the age of eight, she completed her final film as a child star, Miss Gingersnap in 1919. In all, she was featured or starred in 29 films in a six-year period. Most of her films were produced at Diando Studios, the former Kalem Movie Studio in Glendale, California.
Later films
As an adult, she returned to motion pictures 15 years later in 1934 – at the request of director Henry King – to appear in his film
Costumer
In the 1950s, she started a new career as a costumer for
Personal life
Osborne married Frank J. Dempsey on May 2, 1931. Dempsey was the father of Osborne's only child, Joan (born May 13, 1932). They divorced in 1937. Osborne married 36-year-old actor Murray F. Yeats on June 14, 1945, and moved to
Osborne died on November 11, 2010, in
References
- ^ Obituary, L.A. Times, November 18, 2010, pg. AA6.
- New York Times. Retrieved September 14, 2018.
- ^ Little Mary Sunshine, IMDb profile.
- ^ Obituary in the New York Times, ibid.
Further reading
- Balboa Films: A History and Filmography of the Silent Film Studio; ISBN 0-7864-0496-5