Percy Haswell
Percy Haswell | |
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Nantucket, Massachusetts , U.S. | |
| Nationality | American |
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| Occupation | Actress |
| Spouse | George Fawcett (m. 1895-1939) |
| Children | 1 |
Percy Haswell (April 30, 1871 – June 24, 1945), frequently billed as Miss Percy Haswell or Mrs. George Fawcett to clarify her gender, was an American stage and film actress. Haswell was born in
On June 2, 1895, at Bridgeport, Connecticut, she married fellow actor George Fawcett. In 1901 at Baltimore she formed the Percy Haswell Stock Company but later took a secondary role to her husband, her company forming a constituent part of the George Fawcett Stock Company.[3] For August 1903, Haswell performed as the leading lady at Denver's Elitch Theatre in four weekly productions with leading man, Robert Drouet.[4] In 1925, she directed the Broadway play, The Complex. She also appeared in two silent films in 1919 and one in 1929.[5]
She died at age 74 in
Writer Fulton Oursler commented, in describing his infatuation with her, that she was "so blonde, so blue-eyed, with voice so throaty sweet. She was a lass from Austin, Texas, but to me she seemed to belong to some other world altogether. She was my first Rosalind, and Juliet, and Ophelia, and a dozen other heroines, sacred and profane."[3]
References
- ^ a b c John Parker, ed., Who's Who in the Theatre, 3rd Ed., London: Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1916, vol. 3, p. 293
- ^ Johnson Briscoe, The Actors' Birthday Book, 3rd ser., New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1909, p. 111
- ^ a b Fulton Oursler, Behold this dreamer!: An autobiography, Little Brown, 1964, pp. 39-40
- ^ R, Greg. "1903". Historic Elitch Theatre. Retrieved 2023-01-08.
- ^ a b Evelyn Mack Truitt, Who Was Who on Screen, 2nd ed., Bowker, 1977, p. 203
- ^ The Billboard, 23 Jun2 1945, p. 36
External links
- Percy Haswell at the Internet Broadway Database
- Percy Haswell at IMDb
- 1899 portrait; Percy Haswell
- Percy Haswell: North American Theatre Online (AlexanderStreet.com)
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