Ethel "Dixie" Chene was an American film actress active during Hollywood's silent era. She was primarily known for appearing in
Mack Sennett
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's Keystone comedies.
Biography
Chene was born in
Detroit
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, Michigan, to Cyrus Chene and Catherine Bostwick. The family relocated to
Los Angeles
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when Dixie was young, and as a teenager, she began performing with her older sister, fellow actress/performer
Hazel Chene, as part of a
vaudeville
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act.
Around 1912, Chene started acting in motion pictures for
Universal
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; later on, she would gain notoriety for her roles in
Keystone comedies
opposite
Charles Murray. After 1915, however, she returned to her career on the stage.
Chene was married at least twice: first to stuntman Charles Armistead,
who died in 1919 while serving in World War I, and later to actor
Eddie Mar (real name Edward Maire).
Chene and Mar had a son, Robert, before eventually divorcing.
Selected filmography
* 1915, ''Hogan's Wild Oats'', (short)
* 1915, '' The Great Vacuum Robbery'', (short)
* 1915, '' A Game Old Knight'', (short)
* 1915, '' No One to Guide Him'', (short)
* 1915, '' Mabel Lost and Won'', (short)
* 1915, '' Those College Girls'', (short)
* 1915, '' He Wouldn't Stay Down'', (short)
* 1915, '' Their Social Splash'', (short)
* 1915, '' Ambrose's Nasty Temper'', (short)
* 1915, '' Droppington's Family Tree'', (short)
* 1915, '' Fatty's Faithful Fido'', (short)
* 1915, '' Willful Ambrose'', (short)
* 1915, '' A Lucky Leap'', (short)
* 1915, '' Giddy, Gay, and Ticklish'', (short)
* 1914, '' Gussle, the Golfer'', (short)
* 1914, '' Fatty's Magic Pants'', (short)
* 1914, '' Ambrose's First Falsehood'', (short)
* 1914, '' Leading Lizzie Astray'', (short)
* 1914, '' The Noise of Bombs'', (short)
* 1914, '' Tillie's Punctured Romance''
* 1914, '' His Talented Wife'', (short)
* 1914, '' Cursed by His Beauty'', (short)
* 1914, '' Gentlemen of Nerve'', (short)
* 1914, '' Killing Horace'', (short)
* 1914, '' The Rounders'', (short)
* 1914/I, '' The Masquerader'', (short)
* 1914, '' The Property Man'', (short)
* 1914, '' The Great Toe Mystery'', (short)
* 1914, '' Mabel's New Job'', (short)
* 1914, '' Mabel's Married Life'' (Short)
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Chene, Dixie
1894 births
1972 deaths
American film actresses
American silent film actresses
20th-century American actresses
Actresses from Detroit
American vaudeville performers
American stage actresses