Adeline De Walt Reynolds

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Adeline De Walt Reynolds (born September 19, 1862 in Vinton , Iowa , † August 13, 1961 in Hollywood , California ) was an American actress who made her film debut at the age of 78.

life and career

Adeline De Walt was born on a farm as one of ten children during the Civil War . She wanted to become an actress at the age of five, but her father Jonathan opposed his daughter's dream. Instead, she taught as a teacher at a village school, but gave up her job because her male colleagues received more than she did. In 1885 De Walt Reynolds married Frank Reynolds, a timber merchant from her home village who also acted as a juggler. She had four children and supported her husband in his business. In 1892 theater star Henry Irving is said to have offered her to join his theater company, but De Walt Reynolds allegedly turned it down because of their children. After the death of her husband in 1905, the then destitute widow settled with her four children in Berkeley, California , and opened a secretary school. De Walt Reynolds witnessed the San Francisco earthquake on April 18, 1906 . After her daughter enrolled in college , she decided to try college too. She graduated in French at the age of 68. After graduating, she worked again as a teacher. Abruf After graduating, she also took acting lessons and began appearing in plays in the 1930s, which paved her way into the film business. In 1941, at the age of 79, she made her film debut in the love story Come Stay With Me as James Stewart's grandmother . The director of the film, Clarence Brown . called De Walt Reynolds a "potential star". Although she never became a real movie star, over the next few years she made small, but mostly striking, film appearances in over two dozen films. She was seen as a gypsy in the horror film Dracula's Son (1943) and embodied the elderly mother of an Irish priest in the classic film The Way to Happiness (1944), who travels from Ireland to America to see her son in the last scene of the film close your arms. Her last film role was in Cecil B. DeMille's monumental film The Ten Commandments (1956) as a frail old woman who has to be rescued from an emergency. In the 1950s, she made regular guest appearances on television. She had her last role in 1960 in the television series Playhouse 90

Adeline De Walt Reynolds died in 1961, one month before her 99th birthday. At her death, she was the oldest active member of the Screen Actors Guild . Her ashes were interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles.

Filmography

  • 1941: Come Live with Me (Come Live with Me)
  • 1941: The Shadow of the Thin Man (Shadow of the Thin Man)
  • 1942: The Tuttles of Tahiti
  • 1942: Six Fates (Tales of Manhattan)
  • 1942: Iceland
  • 1942: Street of Chance
  • 1943: And Life Goes On (The Human Comedy)
  • 1943: Behind the Rising Sun
  • 1943: Dracula's son (Son of Dracula)
  • 1943: Happy Land
  • 1944: The Road to Happiness (Going My Way)
  • 1944: Since You Went Away (Since You Went Away)
  • 1945: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)
  • 1945: The green grain (The Corn is Green)
  • 1945: Counter attack
  • 1945: The Little Witch
  • 1948: The Girl from Manhattan
  • 1949: The Sickle or the Cross
  • 1950: Stars in My Crown
  • 1950: The Silver Theater (TV series, episode)
  • 1950: Fireside Theater (TV series, episode)
  • 1950: Kim - Secret Service in India (Rudyard Kipling's Kim)
  • 1951: The Bigelow Theater (TV series, episode)
  • 1951: Wedding Parade (Here Comes the Groom)
  • 1952: Black Drums (Lydia Bailey)
  • 1952: The Red Rider (Pony Soldier)
  • 1953: Three Lives
  • 1953: Your Favorite Story (TV series, two episodes)
  • 1954: Witness to Murder
  • 1956: General Electric Theater (TV series, an episode)
  • 1956: Passport to Danger (TV series, an episode)
  • 1956: The Ten Commandments (The Ten Commandments)
  • 1958: Have Gun - Will Travel (TV series, an episode)
  • 1958: Shirley Temple's Storybook (TV series, episode)
  • 1959: Peter Gunn (TV series, an episode)
  • 1959: Adventures in the Wild West (TV series, episode)
  • 1960: Playhouse 90 (TV series, an episode)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Adeline De Walt Reynolds at Archive Desmoines ( Memento from June 10, 2014 in the web archive archive.today )
  2. ^ Adeline De Walt Reynolds in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved December 18, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Reynolds, Adeline De Walt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH near Vinton , Iowa
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 1961
Place of death Hollywood , California