Inez Plummer
Inez Plummer was a Syracuse, New York native[1] and a leading lady of the Burbank, California stock company, in the second decade of the 20th century.[2] Plummer's father managed a theater for thirty-five years. He disapproved of his daughter becoming an actress. Plummer rehearsed her first role in her father's theater with a stock company, without his knowledge. After finding out he was shocked but decided to let her continue.[1]
Los Angeles theatre star
She played her first stage role when she was two years old. Until mid 1906, she was content acting in ingenue roles,[3] until beginning her professional acting career. This began on August 29, 1906 as a performer in The Price of Money, and endured until March 1929. Her final show was The Octoroon, in which she played the character of Zoe.[4]
In November 1916 she appeared at the Alhambra Theater in a production of The High Cost of Living.[2] She became the leading woman of the Belasco Theatre [5] in Los Angeles, California. There she starred in The Fortune Hunter in the fall of 1916.[6]
From 1920 to 1921, she and Charles Trowbridge starred in The Broken Wing, a play written by Paul Dickey.[7]
References
- ^ a b The Stage, Munsey's Magazine, 1914, pg. 106.
- ^ a b Where Lights And Stars Grow Bright, Los Angeles Times, November 27, 1916, pg. II8.
- ^ "Would Rather be an Ingenue than Play Leading Roles". The Washington Times. No. June 3, 1906. Washington, D.C. pp. 27–28. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
- ^ Internet Broadway Database
- ^ Belasco Theatre
- ^ They're Helping "Legit" Revival, Los Angeles Times, September 15, 1916, pg. II3.
- ^ "Do your Christmas Shopping Early for Tickets to these Broadway Successes". New York Tribune. New York, NY. December 5, 1920. Retrieved 4 December 2015.