Audrey Maple (born Elsie H. Schroeder; 1899 – April 18, 1971) was an American actress, singer, and
vaudeville
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performer.
Early life
Audrey Maple was born Elsie H. Schroeder in
Trenton, New Jersey
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. Her father was a musician.
Career
Audrey Maple performed in vaudeville in a novelty act called ''Pianophiends''. In the operetta ''The Love Waltz'' (1908-1909), she was half of a highly publicized "eight-minute kiss" during a dance scene.
She appeared in Broadway productions, mostly musical comedies, including ''
The Arcadians'' (1910), ''
The Firefly'' (1912-1913), ''Molly O'' (1916), ''
Katinka'' (1916), ''Good Night, Paul'' (1917), ''Her Regiment'' by
Victor Herbert
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(1917), ''
Monte Cristo Jr.'' (1919), ''
Tangerine
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'' (1921-1922), ''Princess April'' (1924), ''Naughty Riquette'' (1926), ''My Princess'' (1927), ''Sunny Days'' (1928), ''Angela'' (1928-1929), and ''The Street Singer'' (1929-1930).
Maple appeared in two films, ''The Plumbers are Coming'' (1929) and ''
Enlighten Thy Daughter'' (1934).
Personal life
Maple's personal life involved enough gossip, scandal, and legal entanglements to prompt commentary in newspapers: "What again! It's perfectly terrible the way wives pick on poor little Audrey Maple, the pretty musical comedy star, and try to make out that she is a naughty girl." In 1928 she survived a car accident in Chicago that killed one of her co-stars, dancer Rosalie Claire.
In 1940, Audrey Maple married engineer and inventor Ernest A. Zadig, and retired from the stage. She died in New York in 1971, aged 72 years.
"Audrey Maple Dies; Actress of '20s, 72"
''New York Times'' (April 19, 1971): 40.
References
External links
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A photograph of Audrey Maple
in the Billy Rose Theatre Collection Photograph File, New York Public Library Digital Collections.
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1899 births
1971 deaths
American actresses
American vaudeville performers
Entertainers from Trenton, New Jersey
20th-century American women
20th-century American people