Jane Grey | |
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Born | May 22, 1882 Vermont, US |
Died | November 9, 1944 (aged 61) |
Other names | Gladys Grey Mamie Larock |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1909–1935 |
Spouses |
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Children | 2 |
Jane Grey (born Mamie Larock; May 22, 1882—November 9, 1944[ citation needed]) was an American stage and screen actress of the silent era. [1] [2]
Born in Vermont in 1882, Mamie (later Jane Grey) was the fifth child of seven children of Louisa May and Joseph Larock. [1] The federal census of 1900 documents that her father, a native of Canada, was a "common day laborer" and that her Vermont-born mother washed other people's clothes to earn extra money to support the large family. [1]
Grey started her Broadway career around 1911 and was the original female lead with John Barrymore in the popular 1914 stage play Kick In written by Willard Mack . [3] Grey, who began appearing in films around 1913, was in Hassard Short's All-Star Shakespearean pageant for Actor's Equity in 1921, and she was also cast in a few French productions for Louis Feuillade in the early 1920s. [4]
In 1911, and again in 1914, Grey was a member of the Summer Stock cast at Elitch Theatre in Denver, Colorado. "The leading woman was Jane Grey. Miss Grey was an Anglo-Australian actress whom Charles Frohman brought to the United States and who had just completed a ten-month run in the New York engagement of David Belasco's play, The Concert." [5]
Grey was married twice, to Ricardo Martin and then to William E. Tyrrel. [6] [7]