Victory Bateman
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Victory Bateman (April 6, 1865 in
actress
. Her father, Thomas Creese, and her mother, Elizabeth "Lizzie" Creese, were both actors. On stage, Ms. Bateman appeared in the 1900 tour of "The Man From Mexico" and in the 1919 tour of "Seven Days' Leave".
She was born nine days before
Asia Booth, and nephew of Edwin and John Wilkes Booth. They were separated for many years at the time of the Boucicault trial.[3] She was also married, in later years, to Harry Mestayer and to George Cleveland
. She and her last two husbands were eventually involved in the silent film industry.
In looks, Bateman bore a sisterly resemblance to the better remembered Marie Dressler and also to the later Frances Bavier, Aunt Bee on The Andy Griffith Show.
Filmography
- Nicholas Nickleby (1912) as Miss La Creevy
- Her Cousin Fred (1912) as Victory, Fred's Sister
- Tangled Relations (1912) as The Widow, Florence's Mother
- Her Nephews from Labrador (1913) as The Aunt
- The Dove in the Eagle's Nest (1913)
- For Her Boy's Sake (1913)
- The Lady Killer (1913)
- Article 47, L'(1913)
- The House in the Tree (1913)
- The Hendrick's Divorce (1913)
- The Ten of Spades (1914)
- The Ring (1914)
- The Thief and the Book (1914)
- The Stronger Hand (1914)
- Freckles (1914)
- The Power of Evil (1916)
- Romeo and Juliet (1916) as Lady Montague
- The Passing of the Third Floor Back (1918) as Miss De Hooley
- The Service Star(1918) as Aunt Judith
- Cinderella's Twin (1920) as Ma Du Geen
- Beautifully Trimmed (1920) as Mrs. Calkins
- Keeping Up with Lizzie (1921) as Mrs. Henshaw
- A Trip to Paradise (1921) as Mrs. Smiley
- The Idle Rich (1921) as Mrs. O'Reilly
- A Girl's Desire (1922) as Mrs. Browne
- If I Were Queen (1922) as Aunt Ollie
- Captain Fly-by-Night (1922) as Señora
- Can a Woman Love Twice? (1923) as Mary's Landlady
- Human Wreckage (1923) as Mother Finnegan
- The Eternal Three (1923) as Mrs. Tucker
- Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1924) as Joan Durbeyfield
- The Turmoil (1924) as Mrs. James Sheridan
References
- ^ Bateman-Cleveland marriage; Aimesley Jordan Genealogy Detective, 2009
- ^ VICTORY BATEMAN EXONERATED; So It Was Stated in Mrs. Aubrey Boucicault's Decree of Divorce - NY Times, December 15, 1893
- ^ VICTORY BATEMAN TO SUE; WANTS $50,000 FROM THE PROFESSIONAL WOMAN'S LEAGUE - New York Times, December 21, 1893(opens in PDF)
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Victory Bateman.
- Victory Bateman at IMDb
- Victory Bateman at the Internet Broadway Database
- Victory Bateman at AllMovie
- Portrait of Bateman(Wayback)
- Victory Bateman, picture gallery 1910, 1922 University of Washington, Sayre Collection
- Patterson, Ada and Bateman, Victory (1902). By the Stage Door. Grafton Press.
- St. Johns, Adela Rogers (August 1921). Photoplay Magazine, p. 62. "The Woman Who Came Back."
- Victory Bateman New York Public Library (Billy Rose collection)
- portrait(archived)
- advert for Glycerine Tar soaps, 1900