Charlotte Mineau

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Charlotte Mineau with actor Kalla Pascha in Love's False Faces (1919)

Charlotte Mineau (born March 24, 1886 in Michigan , † October 12, 1979 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American actress .

life and career

A native of Michigan, Charlotte Mineau attended drama school in the Sorbonne in Paris. She then returned to the United States, where she became a well-known supporting actress in Hollywood in the 1910s and 1920s . The tall actress played mothers or women from good company particularly often, and she was mainly used in slapstick comedies. She was best known as a regular supporting actress for Charlie Chaplin in his early comedies between 1915 and 1917: For example, she played the mother of Chaplin's leading actress Edna Purviance in The Pawn Shop and The Count . After finishing her work at Chaplin, she played with Mabel Normand in The Extra Girl (1923) and Mary Pickford in Sparrows (1926). Mineau also shot for comedy producer Hal Roach . There she was cast in three early Laurel and Hardy comedies, including as the wife of James Finlayson in Love 'Em and Weep .

Soon after the start of the sound film, Mineau withdrew from the acting business, her last of almost 80 film appearances as a cheating party guest in the Marx Brothers comedy The Marx Brothers at Sea . Charlotte Mineau, who was married to the actor Christian J. Frank (1890-1967), died in 1979 at the age of 93.

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personal data
SURNAME Mineau, Charlotte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Michigan , United States
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 1979
Place of death Los Angeles , California , United States