Miriam Seegar

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Miriam Seegar Whelan (September 1, 1907 – January 2, 2011) was an American actress in silent film and early sound films.

Early life

As the Seegar sisters started acting and singing, Frank Seegar left teaching to open a hardware store in efforts to support his daughters' growing singing and acting pursuits.

Later life and death

In 1953, she received her ASID certification and began working as an interior decorator, first with Harriet Shellenberger and later on her own. She did not retire until 1995. In 2000, at the age of 93, Seegar appeared in the documentary I Used to Be in Pictures, which featured commentary from many of her contemporaries. Thereafter, she made a series of guest appearances at film festivals which culminated in an award for her screen work from the Memphis Film Festival when she was 95. On her 102nd birthday she sailed from Southampton to New York on the

Whelan retired from acting in 1933, later marrying Tim Whelan, a director, with whom she had two sons.^[3] She later worked as an interior decorator.^[3] Her husband died in 1957, and decades later, both sons died within a span of nine months. Tim Whelan Jr. died from cancer in 1997, and Michael died in 1998.^[3]

Selected filmography

• The Price of Divorce (1928)
• The Love Doctor (1929)
• Clancy in Wall Street (1930)
• New Movietone Follies of 1930 (1930)
• What a Man! (1930)
• Such Is the Law (1930)
• Big Money (1930)
• The Dawn Trail (1930)
• The Woman Between (1931)
• Out of Singapore (1932)
• False Faces (1932)

References

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