Myrtle Tannehill Nichols (May 18, 1886 – July 25, 1977) was an American actress on stage and in

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Early life

Myrtle Tannehill was born into a theatrical family. Her mother was actress Maude Giroux, and her father was actor and playwright Frank Tannehill Jr. Her grandparents, Frank Tannehill Sr. and Susan (Nellie) McMurray Tannehill, were also in the theatre. Her much younger half-sister, Frances Tannehill Clark, also became an actress.

Career

Myrtle Tannehill's appearances on Broadway were mostly in comedies, and included roles in the plays ''Just out of College'' (1905), ''Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch'' (1906), ''Electricity'' (1910), '' Broadway Jones'' (1912-1913), '' Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford'' (1917), ''

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'' (1918-1919), ''The Bonehead'' (1920), ''The Broken Wing'' (1920-1921), ''The Dream Maker'' (1921-1922), '' Dodsworth'' (1934), '' The Philadelphia Story'' (1939-1940), and '' Pygmalion'' (1945-1946). In London she appeared in ''Sealed Orders'' (1913) and ''The Show Off'' (1924). In 1916 she and her husband Hale Hamilton toured Australia with their stock company. In 1925 she was cast in ''Appearances'', a play by Garland Anderson. InezPlummerMyrtleTannehill

Tannehill appeared in three silent films: ''Ethel's Luncheon'' (1909), ''When the Mind Sleeps'' (1915), and ''The Barnstormers'' (1915). She also made two late-career appearances on television, in "Murder by Choice", for '' Colgate Theatre'' (1949), and in "Follow Me" for '' Lights Out'' (1951).

Personal life

Myrtle Tannehill married actor

Hale Hamilton Hale Rice Hamilton (February 28, 1880 – May 19, 1942) was an American actor. Biography Hamilton was born in Fort Madison, Iowa in 1880. (His birth year is sometimes listed as either 1879 or 1880.) His brother was politician John Daniel Miller ...

in 1912, a month after he divorced actress Jane Oaker. Tannehill and Hamilton divorced in 1920, before he married his third wife, actress

Grace La Rue Grace La Rue (born Stella Parsons; April 23, 1882 – March 13, 1956) was an American actress, singer, and vaudeville headliner. Early life Grace La Rue was born Stella Parsons in Kansas City, Missouri, on April 23, 1882, to Lucy L. Parson ...

. Tannehill sued La Rue for alienation of affections. In 1925, Tannehill married stock broker Charles G. Nichols. She retired from the stage after her second marriage, but returned to acting after the stock market crash of 1929. Myrtle Tannehill Nichols died in 1977, aged 91 years."Deaths"
''New York Times'' (July 26, 1977): 32.

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and actor Langhorne Burton, in the

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collection,

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