Mollie King (actress)
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Mollie King ( April 16, 1895 - December 28, 1981) was an American stage and screen actress.[1]
Biography
King began her career on stage, appearing in productions at the Winter Garden in New York from the age of 16. She also starred in Broadway musicals.[2] She signed with Pathé before moving into film acting.[3] She was cast in leading roles in two John M. Stahl directed films, and also starred in serials. George Irving directed her in the film Her Majesty.[4] She later returned to the stage, appearing with her brother Charles King in a musical comedy Good Morning, Judge.[2]
Personal life
King's siblings Charles King and Nellie King were also actors.[5]
The Wisconsin Historical Society has a studio portrait of.her holding her son in 1920.[6]
King married Kentucky distiller Kenneth D. Alexander.[7][2] She married a second time to Thomas Claffey. She died in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York.
Theater
Filmography
- Fate's Boomerang (1916)[8]
- A Circus Romance (1916)
- A Woman's Power (1916)
- Fate's Boomerang (1916)
- The Summer Girl (1916)
- ''All Man (1916)
- The Mystery of the Double Cross (1917)
- The Seven Pearls (1917)
- Kick In (1917)
- Blind Man's Luck (1917)
- The On-the-Square Girl (1917)
- Human Clay (1917)
- Women Men Forget (1920)
- Suspicious Wives (1921)
- Her Majesty (1922)
- Pied Piper Malone (1924)
References
- ^ Wilson, Scott (August 17, 2016). "Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed". McFarland – via Google Books.
- ^ a b c d "PRETTY ACTRESS MOLLIE KING WEDS KENNETH D. ALEXANDER". Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Mollie King". Rotten Tomatoes.
- ^ Koszarski, Richard; Beauchamp, Cari (August 19, 2008). "Hollywood on the Hudson: Film and Television in New York from Griffith to Sarnoff". Rutgers University Press – via Google Books.
- ^ a b Pollack, Howard (January 15, 2007). George Gershwin: His Life and Work. University of California Press. p. 255 – via Internet Archive.
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- ^ "Mollie King Alexander and her Son | Photograph". Wisconsin Historical Society. December 1, 2003.
- ^ "MOLLIE KING MARRIES.; Her Wedding to Kenneth D. Alexander, Kentucky Distiller, a Surprise". May 27, 1919 – via NYTimes.com.
- ^ "The Moving Picture World". World Photographic Publishing Company. August 19, 1916 – via Google Books.