Frances Ne Moyer
Frances Ne Moyer | |
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| Born | September 29, 1896 Westfield, New York, United States |
| Died | December 1981 (aged 85) North Salem, New York, U.S. |
| Other name | Frances McCruden |
| Known for | Silent film actress |
Frances E. Ne Moyer McCruden (September 28, 1896 – December 1981)[1] was an actress who appeared in almost a hundred silent comedy films between 1913 and 1919. Her surname is sometimes found as NeMoyer, Ne-Moyer, or Nemoyer.
Early life and education
[edit]Ne Moyer was born in Westfield, New York, the daughter of Henry W. NeMoyer and Mary Jane Harrington NeMoyer.[2] She attended Miss Nardin's Academy in Buffalo, New York. Her family was in show business and she performed with the Anson Gilmore Stock Company.[3] She also played piano.[4]
Career
[edit]Beginning in her teens, Ne Moyer appeared in films for Lubin Studio[5] and the Kalem Company.[4] A reporter noted her among performers supporting Mae Hotely at Lubin, describing her as "the girl with the beautiful eyes".[6] She fell about 30 feet from a cliff for a scene in The Smuggler's Daughter (1914), barely escaping injury.[7] She worked with noted vamp Theda Bara in Gold and the Woman (1916);[8] later, Ne Moyer played a vamp character in The Law of Nature (1919), her last film.[9][10]
Her sister Marguerite Ne Moyer was also a film actress; they were both members of the Lubin company[5] working with director Arthur Hotaling,[11] and appeared in several comedies together, including The Rest Cure (1913),[12] She Must Be Ugly (1913),[12] All Account of Daisy (1914),[13] and His Sudden Recovery (1914).[12] She also worked several times with Oliver Hardy.[12][14]
Later years
[edit]Ne Moyer married investment executive Donald Breslin McCruden in 1919, in Manhattan, and made no further films.[15] She was active in Waccabuc Country Club activities in the 1940s.[16] Her husband died in 1961,[17][18] and she died in 1981, in her eighties, in North Salem, New York.
Filmography
[edit]- The Female Detective (1913)[12]
- The Rest Cure (1913)[12]
- She Must Be Ugly (1913)[12]
- Training a Tightwad (1913)[12]
- The Particular Cowboys (1913) as Muriel, the cook[12]
- Summer Love (1914)
- A Tango Tragedy (1914)[12]
- His Sudden Recovery (1914) as the Jones's daughter
- A Tango Tragedy (1914) as Nora Muldoon
- Outwitting Dad (1914) as Lena Gross[14]
- Pins Are Lucky (1914) as Ruth Singleton
- Dobs at the Shore (1914) as Helen
- Cannibal King (1915) as Grace[19]
- The Prize Baby (1915) as Florence
- Shoddy the Tailor (1915) as Minnie[12]
- The Smuggler's Daughter (1914), in the title role[7]
- Safety Worst (1915) as Jane Hudson
- Mixed Flats (1915) as Mrs. Robbins
- Percival's Awakening (1915)[20]
- Her Choice (1915)[21]
- The Wayville Slumber Party (1915)[22]
- Mr. Stub's Pen (1915)[12]
- Gus and the Anarchists (1915)[12]
- Cupid's Target (1915) as Lucy
- The Servant Girl's Legacy (1914) as Bess
- What a Cinch (1915) as Molly Mason
- A Lucky Strike (1915) as Elinor, Nelle Crehan's niece[12]
- The Dead Letter (1915) as Lena Pula
- Who Stole the Doggies? (1915) as Maggie, the Cook[23]
- Gold and the Woman (1916) as Murray's daughter[8]
- Peaches and Ponies (1916)[24]
- The Law of Nature (1919) as Gene Moore[9]
- Lover's Signal[3]
- Won at High Tide[3] as Sally
At left in What a Cinch (1915), with Oliver Hardy
At left in Who Stole the Doggies? (1915)
At right in The Dead Letter (1915)
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References
[edit]- ↑ Birth and death dates from the U.S. Social Security Death Index, via Ancestry. Her gravestone has 1894 as her birth year.
- ↑ "Mary J. Harrington NeMoyer". The Buffalo News. 1940-11-07. p. 36. Retrieved 2026-05-04 – via Newspapers.com.
- 1 2 3 "Frances E. Ne Moyer, of the Lubin Company". Motion Picture Story Magazine. 4 (8): 134. September 1912 – via Internet Archive.
- 1 2 "Moving Picture Folk Royally Entertained by Fernandina Hosts". The Florida Times-Union. 1916-04-18. p. 4. Retrieved 2026-05-04 – via Newspapers.com.
- 1 2 "Lubin Comedy Company Notes". The Pittsburgh Post. 1913-06-22. p. 24. Retrieved 2026-05-04 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "May Hotely". Exhibitors' Times. 1 (5): 20. 1913-06-13.
- 1 2 "Topics from the Cinema Halls". Football Post. 1913-11-01. p. 13. Retrieved 2026-05-04 – via Newspapers.com.
- 1 2 "Local Brevities". Westfield Republican. 1916-12-06. p. 2 – via NYS Historic Newspapers.
- 1 2 "At the Best Frances NeMoyer is a Wicked 'Vamp'; Young Star in 'The Law of Nature'". Poughkeepsie Eagle-News. 1920-08-20. p. 10. Retrieved 2026-05-04 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "Frances Nemoyer est un "vampire" tres detestable". La Tribune (in French). 1919-12-11. p. 5. Retrieved 2026-05-04.
- ↑ "Hotaling's New Company". The Moving Picture World. 17 (3): 308. 1913-07-19.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Braff, Richard E. (2002). The Braff silent short film working papers : over 25,000 films, 1903-1929, alphabetized and indexed. Internet Archive. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co. pp. 152, 196, 228, 305, 340, 379, 417, 447, 450, 493, 518. ISBN 978-0-7864-1031-6.
- ↑ "Majestic Tonight (advertisement)". The Tribune. 1913-12-06. p. 1. Retrieved 2026-05-04 – via Newspapers.com.
- 1 2 Louvish, Simon (2005-07-01). Stan and Ollie: The Roots of Comedy. Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-4668-2722-6.
- ↑ "McCruden-NeMoyer". The Buffalo News. 1919-08-12. p. 9. Retrieved 2026-05-04 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "Annual Hunt Ball to be Tomorrow at Waccabuc Club". The Reporter Dispatch. 1949-11-25. p. 9. Retrieved 2026-05-04 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "Obituary for Donald B. McCruden". Chicago Tribune. 1961-10-30. p. 38. Retrieved 2026-05-04 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "Donald M'Cruden of Moody's Dead; President of the Investors Service Since 1956". The New York Times. October 28, 1961. p. 21. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2026-05-04.
- ↑ Richards, Larry (2015-09-17). African American Films Through 1959: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Filmography. McFarland. pp. 33–34. ISBN 978-1-4766-1052-8.
- ↑ "Brief Stories of the Week's Film Releases". Motography. 13 (18): 716. 1915-05-01.
- ↑ "Comments on the Films". The Moving Picture World: 485. 1915-07-17.
- ↑ "Stories of the Films". The Moving Picture World: 2232–2233. 1915-09-25.
- ↑ "The Majestic". Wichita Daily Times. 1915-07-01. p. 3. Retrieved 2026-05-04 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "New Kalem Releases". The Moving Picture World. 29 (6): 943. 1916-08-05.