Edna Mayo

Edna Mayo
Mayo in 1916
Born
Edna Lane

(1895-03-23)March 23, 1895
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania U.S.
DiedMay 5, 1970(1970-05-05) (aged 75)
San Francisco, California U.S.
OccupationActress
Years active1914–1918

Edna Mayo (born Edna Lane; March 23, 1895 – May 5, 1970) was an American film actress of the silent film era. She had several starring roles.

Career

Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on March 23, 1895, Mayo spent time as a stage actress before moving to Hollywood in 1914 to pursue an acting career. That year, she received her first role, in the film Michael Arnold and Doctor Lynn opposite Robert Z. Leonard.

In 1914 and 1915, she starred in twenty-two films, and wrote an article for Picture-Play Weekly in 1915 about the differences between using makeup for stage and film.

In 1916, she appeared in four films, including The Return of Eve and The Strange Case of Mary Page. During filming for The Return of Eve, the cast and crew were transported to the Midwest, where they shot the film's metropolitan scenes in Chicago and its rural scenes in northern Wisconsin, near the banks of the Dells of the Wisconsin River. She also filmed locations scenes in Milwaukee, Wisconsin with the cast and crew of The Misleading Lady around this same time.

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In 1916's The Strange Case of Mary Page, she wore "$10,000 worth of gowns designed by Lady Duff Gordon (Lucile), the famous modiste."

It then took more than a year before she received another role, playing the female lead in Hearts of Love in 1918. That was her final film; she retired from acting.

She eventually settled in San Francisco, California, where she was residing at the time of her death on May 5, 1970.

Selected filmography

References

  1. ↑ Finamore, Michelle Tolini (2013). Hollywood before glamour : fashion in American silent film. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire. p. 133. ISBN 978-0-230-38948-9. OCLC 819519350.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  2. ↑ Young, Z.Z. (1916). "Edna Mayo's idea of real inspiration". The Green Book Magazine. 15: 680–681 – via Story-Press Association.
  3. ↑ Mayo, Edna (June 5, 1915). "Making Up for the Movies". Picture-Play Weekly: 2.
  4. ↑ Dahlquist, Marina; Galili, Doron; Olsson, Jan; Robert, Valentine (2018). Corporeality in Early Cinema : Viscera, Skin, and Physical Form. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. p. 207. ISBN 9780253033659.
  5. ↑ St. George, George. "Shots from the Motion Picture Cameras." Los Angeles, California: Evening Express, October 21, 1916, p. 6 (subscription required).
  6. ↑ "$1000 Gown Torn, Trampled in Film Tragedy, Realistic." Los Angeles, California: Evening Express, February 7, 1916, p. 3 (subscription required).
  7. ↑ "Movieland." Martinez, California: Daily Gazette, August 8, 1916, p. 7 (subscription required).
  8. 1 2 "Tally's Broadway". Los Angeles Evening Express. October 21, 1916. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ↑ "Strand Is Advertising The Misleading Lady." Long Beach, California: Long Beach Press, February 10, 1916, p. 12 (subscription required).
  10. ↑ "A Fashion Show in the Films." Long Beach, California: Long Beach Daily Telegram, March 6, 1916, p. 2 (subscription required).
  11. ↑ "Mary Page Is Feature." San Bernardino, California: San Bernardino News, March 16, 1916, p. 3 (subscription required).