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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use mdy dates Шаблон:More citations needed Шаблон:Infobox person Gladys Brockwell (née Lindeman; September 26, 1894 – July 2, 1929) was an American actress whose career began during the silent film era.

Early life and career

Шаблон:Moresources Brockwell was born Gladys Lindeman in Brooklyn, New York, on September 26, 1894. Her father was H.R. Lindeman. Her mother, Lillian Lindeman (Шаблон:Nee Voltaire), a chorus girl turned actress, put her daughter on stage at an early age. By age 7, Brockwell was performing in dramatic productions with a stock company in Williamsport, West Virginia. By the time Gladys was 14, she played leading roles, and when she was 17 she had her own company. She took on the stage name Gladys Brockwell , and made her film debut in 1913 for Lubin Studios. Within a short time she was starring in a number of films. Developing her craft, she moved to Hollywood where she garnered a role in the acclaimed 1922 version of Oliver Twist and in The Hunchback of Notre Dame the following year.

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Gladys Brockwell (1917)

Her mother Lillian took to the screen in 1914 and also adopted the surname Brockwell, first as Lillian Brockwell then as Billie Brockwell, achieving fame in her own right but after her daughter. The name Brockwell appears to be a corruption of Gladys' fiance's surname, Broadwell but may stem from a remarriage of Lillian around 1907 or 1908, with both mother and daughter taking a new surname.

By the mid-1920s she was past the age of 30 and although still given top female billing, Brockwell performed mainly in supporting roles. Regarded as one of the finest character actresses of the day who not only adapted to sound films but excelled in them, her first appearance in a "talkie" came in 1928 in Lights of New York. Her performance received strong reviews at the time of the film's release as well as by present-day critics of the preserved film.

A Warner Bros. feature-length production, Lights of New York was filmed with microphones strategically hidden around the sets, creating the first motion picture released with fully synchronic dialogue. She was then signed by Warner Bros. and was looking forward to continued success in talkies. She died in an automobile accident in 1929.

Personal life

Brockwell married actor Robert B. Broadwell on March 3, 1915. They separated on September 1, 1915, due to "Much quarreling and unpleasantness generally," as she told the court when she sought a divorce in March 1918. "We never seemed to agree on anything," she added. Los Angeles Judge Jackson granted her divorce decree on March 13, 1918, on grounds of desertion.

On July 1, 1918, she married Harry Edwards, a film director, but the marriage was annulled the next year.Шаблон:R

Death

Шаблон:Moresources Brockwell died in Hollywood Hospital in Los Angeles on July 2, 1929, of peritonitis that resulted from internal injuries from an automobile accident.

On June 27, 1929, Brockwell and a friend, Thomas Stanely Brennan, were involved in an automobile accident near Calabasas, California. Brennan, a Los Angeles advertising man, was driving when the automobile went over a Шаблон:Convert embankment on the Ventura Highway near Calabasas. She was crushed beneath the automobile.

She underwent four blood transfusions as part of the effort to save her life, the last just before her death. Following a second blood transfusion, Brockwell appeared to improve until peritonitis set in from her internal injuries, particularly a puncture of her large intestine. Brennan recovered after sustaining serious injuries. He said a bit of dust had blown into his eye, temporarily blinding him. No negligence was placed on Brennan, who was still recovering in the hospital. Brockwell's final film, The Drake Case, was directed by Edward Laemmle while she was on loan to Universal Pictures, and was released posthumously in September 1929.

Gladys Brockwell was cremated at Hollywood Cemetery and her ashes given to her mother. Her ashes now lie with her mother in the columbarium of Inglewood Park Cemetery.

Selected filmography

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Conscience (1917)

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1913	The Rattlesnake	Tony's sister	Incomplete film
	When Mountain and Valley Meet	Beth
	His Blind Power
1914	The Geisha
	The Last of the Line
	One of the Discard	Flora
	A Political Feud	Helen Kent
	A Relic of Old Japan	Annette Walsh
	Stacked Cards	Edna Johnson
	The Typhoon	Helene
	The Worth of a Life	Ruby Baker
1915	A Confidence Game
	Double Trouble	Daisy Scarlett
	A Man and His Mate	Betty
	On the Night Stage	Saloon girl
	Providence and the Twins	Miss Abagail Dean
1916	The Crippled Hand	The Prima Donna
	The End of the Trail	Adrienne Cabot
	The Fires of Conscience	Margery Burke
	Sins of Her Parent	Adrian Gardiner / Valerie Marchmont
1917	A Branded Soul	Conchita Cordova	Lost film
	Her Temptation	Shirley Moreland
	The Honor System	Trixie Bennett	Lost film
	The Price of Her Soul	Ailene Graham
	The Soul of Satan	Miriam Lee
1918	The Bird of Prey	Adele Durant
	The Devil's Wheel	Blanche De Montfort
	Her One Mistake	Harriet Gordon / Peggy Malone
	Kultur	Countess Griselda von Arenburg	Lost film
	The Moral Law	Isobel de Costa / Anita de Costa
	The Scarlet Road	Mabel Halloway
	The Strange Woman	Inez de Pierrefond
1919	Broken Commandments	Nella Banard
	The Call of the Soul	Barbara Deming
	Chasing Rainbows	Sadie
	The Divorce Trap	Eleanor Burton
	The Forbidden Room	Ruth Lester
	Pitfalls of a Big City	Molly Moore
	The Sneak	Rhona
	Thieves	Mazie Starrett
1920	Flames of the Flesh	Candace	Lost film
	The Mother of His Children	Princess Yve	Lost film
	A Sister to Salome	Elinore Duane
1921	The Sage Hen	The Sage Hen
1922	Oliver Twist	Nancy
	Double Stakes
	Paid Back	Carol Gordon
1923	The Hunchback of Notre Dame	Sister Gudule
	The Drug Traffic	Edna Moore
	Penrod and Sam	Mrs. Schofield
	The Darling of New York	Light Fingered Kitty	Lost film, only the last reel survives
1924	The Foolish Virgin	Nancy Owens	Lost film
	So Big	Maartje Poole	Lost film
	Unmarried Wives	Mrs. Gregory
1925	Chickie	Jennie	Lost film
	Stella Maris	Louisa Risca
	The Ancient Mariner	Life In Death	Lost film
	The Reckless Sex	Mrs. Garcia
1926	The Skyrocket	Rose Kimm (prologue)	Lost film
	Her Sacrifice	Mary Cullen
	Twinkletoes	Cissie Lightfoot
	The Last Frontier	Cynthia Jaggers
	Spangles	Mademoiselle Dazie
1927	Long Pants	His Mother
	The Country Doctor	Myra Jones
	Man, Woman and Sin	Mrs. Whitcomb
	7th Heaven	Nana
1928	A Girl in Every Port	Madame Flore
	My Home Town	Mae Andrews
	Hollywood Bound	Hollywood Leading Lady	short; Vitaphone sound
	The Home Towners	Lottie Bancroft	Lost film
	Lights of New York	Molly Thompson
	The Woman Disputed	Countess
	The Law and the Man	Margaret Grayson
1929	The Hottentot	Mrs. Chadwick	Lost film
	The Argyle Case	Mrs. Martin	Lost film, but the sound to reels 3, 5, 7, and 9 survive
	Hardboiled Rose	Julie Malo	The soundtrack is lost except for the fourth reel disc
	The Drake Case	Lulu Marks

Sources

• Albert Lea (Minnesota) Evening Tribune, "Gladys Brockwell, Picture Actress, Dies of Injuries", (Wednesday, July 3, 1929) page 1
• New York Times, "Gladys Brockwell Dies" (July 3, 1929) page 14

External links

• Шаблон:IMDb name
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