Maggie Moore
Maggie Moore ( Margaret Virginia Sullivan ; born April 10, 1851 in San Francisco , † March 16, 1926 ibid) was an American - Australian actress .
Life
Moore was already a successful actress in San Francisco when she met the Australian actor and impresario James Cassius Williamson in 1871 . She married him in 1873 and in the same year set out on a trip to Australia with him, her brother Jim Moore and the acting company of George Coppin . After appearing in Hawaii and Fiji, they arrived in Melbourne and performed at the Theater Royal that season , where they performed the play Struck Oil seventy-five times.
With Struck Oil they had successes in Ballarat, Geelong, Castlemaine and Sandhurst, in the season 1875 at the Queen's Theater in Sydney and in Adelaide. After the season was over, they played the piece in India, Egypt, Italy, France and Germany. In London they opened with this play on Easter Monday 1876 at the Adelphi Theater . They also had Dionysius George Boucicault's piece Arrah na Pogue in their repertoire, in which Moore played the title role.
After two years in the United States, Moore and Williamson returned to Melbourne in 1879 with the exclusive rights to perform the comic operas by Gilbert and Sullivan for Australia. After Little Buttercup and Josephine HMS Pinafore , Moore played Ruth and occasionally Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance , Lady Jane in Patience , Katisha in The Mikado , Fairy Queen in Iolanthe , the Duchess of Plaza Toro in The Gondoliers , Bettina in La Mascotte (with Nellie Steward as Fiametta) and the title role in Meg, the Castaway in 1890 .
In 1891 Moore went on a tour with her husband through India, after which there were differences between the two. Moore formed his own acting troupe in 1894 and divorced Williamson in 1899. In 1902 she married Harry R. Roberts in New York . Between 1903 and 1908, she toured North America and England, then returned to Australia and worked for JC Williamson Ltd until 1912 . In 1915 she appeared with the Royal Comic Opera Company as Mrs. Pitt in After the Girl and toured Australia with the play. In 1918 she played Mrs. Karl Pfeiffer in Friendly Enemies . In the film version of Struck Oil by Pugliese Enterprises , she played Lizzie Stofel.
In 1920 she was successful with her husband Roberts in Gregan McMahon's production of Charles Kenyon's Kindling au the stage at the King's Theater in Melbourne. In 1924 she celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of her first appearance in Australia at Her Majesty's Theater . The following year she retired in California and lived there with her sister. On March 16, 1926, she was run over by a streetcar in San Francisco and died as a result of the accident.
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| SURNAME | Moore, Maggie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sullivan, Margaret Virginia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American-Australian actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 10, 1851 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | San Francisco |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 16, 1926 |
| Place of death | San Francisco |