Edith Roberts

Edith Roberts, ca. 1918

Edith Roberts (September 17, 1899 – August 20, 1935) was a silent film actress from New York City. She was a child performer in vaudeville before she came to Hollywood, California in 1915.

Among her more than one hundred fifty screen credits are roles in Seven Keys To Baldpate (1925), Big Brother (1923), The Wagon Master (1929), and The Mystery Club (1926). Her final film role was in Two O'Clock in the Morning (1929).

In private life she was Mrs. Harold Carter. She died, aged 35, from septicemia at the Hollywood Hospital in 1935, shortly after giving birth to a son, Robert, her only child. A Christian Science memorial service was conducted at the chapel at Hollywood Cemetery, Los Angeles, California.

Selected filmography

• The Adorable Outcast (1928)
• The Phantom of the North (1929)
• There You Are! (1926)
• The Age Of Innocence (1924)
• Thy Name Is Woman (1924)
• Roaring Rails (1924)
• Flesh and Blood (1922)
• Saturday Night (1922)
• The Brazen Beauty (1918)
• The Deciding Kiss (1918)
• Set Free (1918)

References

• Los Angeles Times, Last Honor Paid To Edith Roberts, August 23, 1935, Page A2.
• New York Times, Mrs. Harold Carter, August 22, 1935, Page 15.

External links

• Edith Roberts at the Internet Movie Database