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Date of Birth
10 January 1883, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Date of Death
21 November 1967, East Islip, Long Island, New York, USA
Spouse
Malcolm Williams (February 1908 - 10 June 1937) (his death)
Trivia
Elected to the Actors Equity council board in 1918.
On January 29, 1939, for President Roosevelt's Birthday Celebration, she and Laurette Taylor did a command performance from their Broadway success "Outward Bound".
Her grandfather, John "Pop" Reed, was for many decades the gas man at the Walnut Street
Theatre and gained a small foothold in American theatrical legend by bequeathing the theatre his skull to be used in performances of "Hamlet".Began a long apprenticeship with New York's Fifth Avenue Theatre stock company in 1901, then toured as E.H. Sothern's leading lady, playing Katherine de Vaucelles in "If I Were King", Dulcinea in "Don Quixote" and Ophelia in "Hamlet".
Daughter of an actor-manager, Roland [Lewis] Reed (1852-1901).
Appeared with husband Malcolm Williams frequently on Broadway, including "The Typhoon" (1912), "The Painted Woman" (1913), "The Master of the House" (1912), ""Roads of Destiny" (1918) and "Purity" (1930).
One of the grandest of the grande dames of the American Broadway theatre, she appeared in a handful of melodramatic silent movie vehicles and graced a couple of talking pictures (including Miss Haversham in Great Expectations (1934)) as well as 1950s TV, but preferred the stage
Filmography
Actress:
1. "The United States Steel Hour" .... Mrs. Cartey (1 episode, 1960)
... aka The U.S. Steel Hour (USA: alternative title)
- You Can't Have Everything (1960) TV episode .... Mrs. Cartey
2. "Kraft Television Theatre" (1 episode, 1958)
... aka Kraft Mystery Theatre (USA: new title)
... aka Kraft Theatre (USA: new title)
- The Man in Authority (1958) TV episode
3. "Producers' Showcase" .... Fortune Teller (1 episode, 1955)
- The Skin of Our Teeth (1955) TV episode .... Fortune Teller
4. "Armstrong Circle Theatre" (1 episode, 1953)
- Black Wedding (1953) TV episode
5. "Broadway Television Theatre" (1 episode, 1952)
- Suspect (1952) TV episode
6. "Pulitzer Prize Playhouse" .... Fanny Cavendish (1 episode, 1951)
- The Royal Family (1951) TV episode .... Fanny Cavendish
7. "Lights Out" (1 episode, 1950)
- The Thing Upstairs (1950) TV episode
8. "The Philco Television Playhouse" .... Mrs. Danvers (2 episodes, 1948-1950)
... aka Arena Theatre (USA: new title)
... aka Repertory Theatre (USA: new title)
... aka The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse (USA: new title)
- The Sudden Guest (1950) TV episode
- Rebecca (1948) TV episode .... Mrs. Danvers
9. Stage Door (1937) (uncredited) .... Bit Role
10. Frankie and Johnnie (1936) .... Lou
11. Great Expectations (1934) .... Miss Havisham
12. The Black Panther's Cub (1921) .... The Black Panther/Mary Maudsley/Faustine
13. The Eternal Mother (1920) .... Laura West
... aka Indiscretion (USA: reissue title)
14. Her Game (1919) .... Carol Raymond
15. The Woman Under Oath (1919) .... Grace Norton
16. Her Code of Honor (1919) .... Helen/Alice
17. Wives of Men (1918) .... Lucille Emerson
18. The Struggle Everlasting (1918) .... Body, aka Lois
19. To-Day (1917) .... Lily Morton
20. The Eternal Sin (1917) .... Lucretia Borgia
... aka Lucretia Borgia
... aka The Queen Mother
21. The Woman's Law (1916) .... Gail Orcutt
22. New York (1916) .... Nora Nelson, later Mrs. King
23. At Bay (1915) .... Aline Graham
24. The Cowardly Way (1915) .... Eunice Fielding
25. Her Own Way (1915) .... Georgiana Carley
26. The Dancing Girl (1915) .... Drusilla Ives
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