Английская Википедия:Bliss Milford
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Bliss Milford (1886-1970)[1] (born Bliss Phoebe MacLaren) was an American actress, screenwriter, songwriter and singer who was active in Hollywood during the silent era.[2][3][4]
Biography
Bliss McLaren was born in Hope, North Dakota, to attorney C. Milford MacLaren and actress Alma Gallinger.[5][6] She grew up primarily in Chicago, and became interested in acting when her family relocated to New York City later on;.[7] Her uncle, William Edward McLaren, was the archbishop of Chicago.[8]
When she became an actress at the age of 15 — appearing, at first, in minor roles on the stage in New York — she used her father's middle name as her last name for her film credits. She was under contract at Edison until 1914, at which point she moved to Kinetophone.[9]
She joined the company of actor and playwright David Higgins in the early 1900s, alongside her mother. Higgins and Bliss eventually married, despite their nearly 30-year age gap, but their partnership did not last.[10] Her 1915 marriage to filmmaker Harry Beaumont was similarly fated.[11] She eventually married Karl Klein in 1923, a marriage that lasted until Klein's death in the 1960s.
In addition to her work as an actress, screenwriter, and songwriter, she also served for a time on the board of directors of the Toledo School for Crippled Children.[10]
Little is known of her life after her film career came to an end. In addition to songwriting, she apparently sang contralto at a 1928 Washington D.C. opera recital.[12] She died July 29, 1970, in the Bronx and was cremated. Her ashes rest at Ferncliff Cemetery, Hartsdale, New York.[1]
Select filmography
- 1918 Sylvia on a Spree
- 1918 And the Children Pay
- 1918 Flower of the Dusk
- 1916 The House of Mirrors
- 1915 The Beloved Vagabond
- 1915 The Closing Net
- 1914 A Question of Hats and Gowns
References
External links
- Bliss Milford Internet Movie Database
- ↑ 1,0 1,1 Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons page 514 by Scott Wilson c.2016
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- ↑ newspaper accounts of Bliss Milford singing contralto at Washington D.C. recital 1928