Diamond Donner was an early 20th-century theatre actor.

Personal life

From

Boston Boston is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and Financial centre, financial center of New England, a region of the Northeas ...

, Diamond Donner was the daughter of Gustav Theodore and Louella Donner. She was a 1901 alumnus of

Wellesley College Wellesley College is a Private university, private Women's colleges in the United States, historically women's Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1870 by Henr ...

. In August 1906, Donner had her mother committed to Ardendale Sanitarium in

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; when the older woman escaped on September 6 and was not recommitted, Donner traveled to

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on September 10 to request adjudication on the matter.

Career

An aspiring stage actor since childhood, after graduating from Wellesley, she began her acting career as a

chorus girl A chorus line is a large group of dancers who together perform synchronized routines, usually in musical theatre. Sometimes, singing is also performed. While synchronized dancing indicative of a chorus line was vogue during the first half of th ...

in ''

The Prince of Pilsen ''The Prince of Pilsen'' is a lost 1926 American silent romantic comedy film directed by Paul Powell and starring Anita Stewart and George Sidney. David Belasco David Belasco (July 25, 1853 – May 14, 1931) was an American theatrical prod ...

''. According to ''

The Minneapolis Journal ''The Minnesota Star Tribune'', formerly the ''Minneapolis Star Tribune'', is an American daily newspaper based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. As of 2023, it is Minnesota's largest newspaper and the seventh-largest in the United States by circula ...

'', Donner looked so much like the famous actor

Ethel Barrymore Ethel Barrymore (born Ethel Mae Blythe; August 15, 1879 – June 18, 1959) was an American actress and a member of the Barrymore family of actors. Barrymore was a stage, screen and radio actress whose career spanned six decades, and was regarde ...

, she was frequently called the other woman's name. In 1913, Donner's performance of Mimi in ''

Carmen ''Carmen'' () is an opera in four acts by the French composer Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée. The opera was first performed by the O ...

'' was described as one of the most significant triumphs of the season by the ''Daily Sentinel''.

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