Effie Shannon (May 13, 1867 – July 24, 1954) was an American stage and silent screen actress.

Biography

Shannon had a 60-year career as starring performer and later character actress. She began as a child actor appearing with John McCullough and later in 1886 with

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. She was one of the founding members of the Twelfth Night Club for female actresses in 1891 (along with Alice Fisher, Lelena Fisher and

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). Her partner and/or husband was

Herbert Kelcey Herbert Kelcey (10 October 1856 – 10 July 1917) born Herbert Henry Lamb, was an English-born American stage and film actor. Biography Born in 1856 in London, Kelcey made his stage debut at Brighton, in 1877 and had his first appearance in Lond ...

who died in 1917. They appeared in numerous plays as a team predating by a generation the famous Lunt and Fontanne as a great Broadway romantic team. Effie's sister, Winona Shannon (1874-1950) was also an actress and regularly performed in the Herbert Kelcey and Effie Shannon Company. In 1914, Effie appeared in her first silent film along with Kelcey. They made one more film together in 1916 before his 1917 death. Shannon continued to appear in silent films and early sound films until 1932 while still appearing on Broadway. One of her later roles was in a revival of '' Arsenic and Old Lace''. On September 16, 1932 Peg Entwhistle, wearing a dress borrowed from Shannon, jumped to her death from the top of the Hollywoodland sign.Lamparski, p. 48.

Filmography

References

Sources

* Lamparski, R. (1981) ''Lamparsaki's Hidden Hollywood'', Simon & Schuster: New York. .

External links

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