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Catherine Calvert (born Catherine Cassidy; April 20, 1890 – January 18, 1971) was an American actress.
Who's Who in Music and Drama
'. New York: H. P. Hanaford, p. 60. She made her stage debut in the play ''Brown of Harvard'' in September 1908, in Albany, New York. On Broadway, she portrayed Laura Moore in ''The Deep Purple'' (1911), May Joyce in ''The Escape'' (1913), and Dona Sol in ''Blood and Sand'' (1921). After many years' experience onstage in productions including ''The Deep Purple'' (a play by her future husband, Paul Armstrong), in 1910, she entered films via Keeney Pictures Corporation in ''A Romance of the Underworld'' (1918; based on a play in which she had appeared onstage). Other films in which she appeared include ''Marriage'', ''Out of the Night'', ''Career of Katherine Bush'', ''Marriage for Convenience'', and ''Fires of Faith''. Around 1920, she was a star of Vitagraph Studios. Calvert married Armstrong in New Haven in 1913. They remained wed until his death in 1915. She later married Canadian grain exporter George A. Carruthers, who died in 1952. In 1971, Calvert died in Uniondale, New York, at age 80.
* ''Partners'' (1916) (*short)
* ''House of Cards'' (1917)
* ''The Peddler'' (1917))
* ''Think It Over'' (1917)
* ''Behind the Mask'' (1917)
* '' Outcast'' (1917)
* '' The Uphill Path'' (1918)
* ''A Romance of the Underworld'' (1918)
* ''Out of the Night'' (1918)
* ''Marriage'' (1918)
* '' Marriage For Convenience'' (1919)
* '' Fires of Faith'' (1919)
* '' The Career of Katherine Bush'' (1919)
* '' Dead Men Tell No Tales'' (1920)
* '' The Heart of Maryland'' (1921)
* '' You Find It Everywhere'' (1921)
* ''
Catherine Calvert
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Catherine Calvert
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Biography
The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cassidy, Catherine Calvert was born and raised inBaltimore, Maryland
Baltimore ( , locally: or ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland, fourth most populous city in the Mid-Atlantic, and the 30th most populous city in the United States with a population of 585,708 in 2020. Baltimore was ...
.Hines, Dixie; Hanaford, Harry Prescott, eds. (1914). "Calvert, Catherine (Catherine Calvert Cassidy)". Who's Who in Music and Drama
'. New York: H. P. Hanaford, p. 60. She made her stage debut in the play ''Brown of Harvard'' in September 1908, in Albany, New York. On Broadway, she portrayed Laura Moore in ''The Deep Purple'' (1911), May Joyce in ''The Escape'' (1913), and Dona Sol in ''Blood and Sand'' (1921). After many years' experience onstage in productions including ''The Deep Purple'' (a play by her future husband, Paul Armstrong), in 1910, she entered films via Keeney Pictures Corporation in ''A Romance of the Underworld'' (1918; based on a play in which she had appeared onstage). Other films in which she appeared include ''Marriage'', ''Out of the Night'', ''Career of Katherine Bush'', ''Marriage for Convenience'', and ''Fires of Faith''. Around 1920, she was a star of Vitagraph Studios. Calvert married Armstrong in New Haven in 1913. They remained wed until his death in 1915. She later married Canadian grain exporter George A. Carruthers, who died in 1952. In 1971, Calvert died in Uniondale, New York, at age 80.
Filmography
* ''Partners'' (1916) (*short)
* ''House of Cards'' (1917)
* ''The Peddler'' (1917))
* ''Think It Over'' (1917)
* ''Behind the Mask'' (1917)
* '' Outcast'' (1917)
* '' The Uphill Path'' (1918)
* ''A Romance of the Underworld'' (1918)
* ''Out of the Night'' (1918)
* ''Marriage'' (1918)
* '' Marriage For Convenience'' (1919)
* '' Fires of Faith'' (1919)
* '' The Career of Katherine Bush'' (1919)
* '' Dead Men Tell No Tales'' (1920)
* '' The Heart of Maryland'' (1921)
* '' You Find It Everywhere'' (1921)
* ''Moral Fibre
''Moral Fibre'' is a 1921 American silent drama film directed by Webster Campbell and starring Corinne Griffith, Catherine Calvert and Harry C. Browne.Munden p.524
Cast
* Corinne Griffith as Marion Wolcott
* Catherine Calvert as Grace Elmor ...
'' (1921)
* '' The Green Caravan'' (1922)
*'' That Woman'' (1922)
* '' The Indian Love Lyrics'' (1923)
* '' Out to Win'' (1923)
References
External links
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photo gallery NY Public Library Billy Rose Collection
Catherine Calvert
portraits at Corbis 1971 deaths 1890 births 20th-century American actresses Actresses from Baltimore American silent film actresses American stage actresses {{US-stage-actor-stub