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Edith Hallor | |
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 Hallor in Leave It to Jane | |
| Born | March 26, 1896 Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Died | May 21, 1971 (aged 75) |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1914–1945 (film) |
| Spouses | |
| Relatives | Ray Hallor (brother) |
Edith Hallor, also known as Edith Kingdon Hallor, (March 26, 1896 – May 21, 1971) was an American stage and film actress.[1][2] She starred in several Broadway musicals from 1915 through 1920. She appeared in a number of films during the silent era from 1914 through 1922. She later appeared in a handful of minor film roles during the sound era from 1937 through 1945.
Life and career
[edit]Edith Kingdon Hallor was born on March 26, 1896 in Washington, D.C.[3] She was the sister of actors Ray Hallor[3] and Ethel Hallor.[4] She began her career as a member of the Columbia Players, a repertory theatre troupe in residence at the Columbia Theatre in Washington, D.C. Her repertoire with this organization included the role of Lady Stapleton in Capt. R. Marshall's A Royal Family (1913).[5] In 1914 she performed with Emma Trentini's company at the Shubert-Teck Theatre in Buffalo, New York[6] and the Alvin Theatre in Pittsburgh.[7] She simultaneously worked as a silent film actress.[8] Her early films included The Governor's Ghost (1914),[9] Through Dante's Flames (1914),[10] The Criminal Path (1914),[11] Thou Shalt Not (1914),[12] The War of Wars; or, the Franco-German Invasion (1914),[13] Dr. Rameau (1915),[14] The Family Stain (1915),[15] Black Friday (1916), A Man and the Woman (1917),[16] and Wrath (1917).[17]
Hallor portrayed Countess Napolska in Oskar Nedbal's The Peasant Girl on Broadway at the 44th Street Theatre in 1915.[18] She starred alongside Fanny Brice and Eddie Cantor in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1917 in which she sang the songs "In the Beautiful Garden of Girls" and "Hello, My Dearie".[19] She starred in two more Broadway musicals in 1917; portraying Jane Witherspoon in Jerome Kern's Leave It to Jane at the Longacre Theatre[20] and as a featured performer in another Ziegfeld revue, Dance and Grow Thin, at the Cocoanut Grove Theatre.[21]
In 1920 Hallor returned to Broadway to perform in the revue Broadway Brevities of 1920 at the Winter Garden Theatre; a show which featured her singing Irving Berlin's "Beautiful Faces".[22] She continued to work as a film actress in the early 1920s with roles in Children of Destiny (1920),[23] The Blue Pearl (1920),[24] The Inside of the Cup (1921),[25] Just Outside the Door (1921),[26] and Human Hearts (1922).[27] She later had minor roles in sound films; including appearances in Maid of Salem (1937),[28] Just Off Broadway (1942),[29] Wilson (1944),[30] Having Wonderful Crime (1945),[31] and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945).[30]
Hallor was married to L. Lawrence Weber,[32] and they had a son, Lawrence Weber Jr.[33] They were divorced on June 18, 1920, on grounds that she had been unfaithful with Jack Dillon.[32] In 1934 she married film director John Francis Dillon.[30][33]
Hallor died from cancer in Newport Beach, California on May 21, 1971.[3]
References
[edit]Citations
[edit]- ↑ Goble p.398
- ↑ Wlaschin p.54
- 1 2 3 Vazzana 2001, p. 223.
- ↑ "In Cast of Walsh Picture". The Akron Beacon Journal. March 13, 1920. p. 8.
- ↑ "A Royal Family is Columbia Offering". The Washington Times. May 4, 1913. p. 15.
- ↑ "At the Teck Next Week". Buffalo Courier. November 8, 1914. p. 49.
- ↑ "Trentini Coming". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. November 22, 1914. p. 4, section 6.
- ↑ "Motion Picture News". The Washington Herald. April 29, 1914. p. 7.
- ↑ American Film Institute 1988, p. 344.
- ↑ American Film Institute 1988, p. 930.
- ↑ American Film Institute 1988, p. 173.
- ↑ American Film Institute 1988, p. 925.
- ↑ American Film Institute 1988, p. 1000.
- ↑ American Film Institute 1988, p. 220.
- ↑ American Film Institute 1988, p. 264.
- ↑ American Film Institute 1988, p. 570.
- ↑ Connelly 1998, p. 438.
- ↑ Dietz 2021, p. 309.
- ↑ Merwe 2009, p. 221.
- ↑ Dietz 2021, p. 390.
- ↑ "Pretty Girls Make Cocoanut Grove a Midnight Dazzler". The New York Evening World. January 19, 1917. p. 14.
- ↑ Benjamin & Rosenblatt 2006, p. 331.
- ↑ American Film Institute 1988, p. 138.
- ↑ American Film Institute 1988, p. 84.
- ↑ American Film Institute 1971, p. 381.
- ↑ American Film Institute 1971, p. 400.
- ↑ American Film Institute 1971, p. 368.
- ↑ Gevinson 1997, p. 624.
- ↑ American Film Institute 1999, p. 1254.
- 1 2 3 Mack Truitt 1977, p. 195.
- ↑ Pitts 2015, p. 141.
- 1 2 "Edith Hallor says husband condoned alleged statutory offense on which he based divorce". The Buffalo Enquirer. June 18, 1920. p. 12. Retrieved May 3, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- 1 2 "Startling secrets of the Hallor family are revealed in Edith's fight for the baby boy, Lawrence Weber, Jr". The Washington Times. October 29, 1922. p. 31. Retrieved May 3, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
Bibliography
[edit]- American Film Institute (1971). Munden, Kenneth W. (ed.). The American Film Institute film catalog of motion pictures produced in the United States : feature films, 1921-1930. R. R. Bowker Company.
- American Film Institute (1988). Hanson, Patricia King (ed.). The American Film Institute film catalog of motion pictures produced in the United States : feature films, 1911-1920. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520063013.
- American Film Institute (1999). Hanson, Patricia King (ed.). The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures: Feature Films, 1941-1950. Vol. 1: Film Entries A-L. Berkeley, California: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520215214.
- Benjamin, Ruth; Rosenblatt, Arthur (2006). Who sang what on Broadway, 1866-1996: Volume I, The Singers A-L. McFarland & Company. ISBN 9780786415069.
- Connelly, Robert B. (1998). Motion Picture Guide Silent Film 1910-1936. Cinebooks. ISBN 9780933997103.
- Dietz, Dan (2021). The Complete Book of 1910s Broadway Musicals. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBN 9781538150283.
- Gevinson, Alan, ed. (1997). Within Our Gates: Ethnicity in American Feature Films, 1911-1960. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520209640.
- Goble, Alan, ed. (2011). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Bowker-Saur. ISBN 9783110951943.
- Merwe, Ann Ommen van der (2009). The Ziegfeld Follies: A History in Song. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9781461731733.
- Pitts, Michael R. (2015). RKO Radio Pictures Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Films, 1929-1956. McFarland & Company. ISBN 9781476616834.
- Mack Truitt, Evelyn (1977). "Hallor, Edith". Who Was Who on Screen. Bowker. ISBN 9780835209144.
- Vazzana, Eugene Michael (2001). "Hamper, Genevieve". Silent Film Necrology. McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0-7864-1059-0.
- Wlaschin, Ken (2009). Silent Mystery and Detective Movies: A Comprehensive Filmography. McFarland & Company. ISBN 9780786454297.
