Maude Eburne

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Maude Eburne (1914)

Maude Eburne (born November 10, 1875 in Bronte-on-the-Lake near Oakville , Ontario , † October 15, 1960 in Hollywood , California ) was a Canadian actress .

life and career

Maude Eburne was born in a small fishing village in Canada in 1875. After studying rhetoric in Toronto , she began working as a stage actress. At first she played mainly in her native Ontario , where Eburne specialized in the imitation of various dialects. Her breakthrough came in 1914 with the portrayal of a love-hungry maid in the Broadway farce A Pair of Sixes . The New York Times wrote enthusiastically in 1914 about Eburne's appearance that she had become famous overnight with this appearance out of obscurity. She appeared regularly on Broadway for the next fifteen years, often acting as a comic servant. She made her film debut in 1918 in A Pair of Sixes , but it was not until the early 1930s that Eburne began working regularly in film.

One of Maude Eburne's first films was The Bat Whispers , where she appeared as the anxious companion of a detective writer. In her nearly 120 films, she mostly played a wide range of eccentric older women, always in supporting roles. She played the aunt of Fay Wray in the horror film The Vampire Bat (1933), a wild former frontier woman in A Butler in America (1935) and Carole Lombard's maid in To Be or Not to Be (1942). The character actress, who was married to the theater producer Eugene J. Hill (1874-1932) until his death, withdrew from the screen in 1951 and died in 1960 at the age of 84.

Filmography (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maude Eburnes biography in The New York Times
  2. ↑ Article in the New York Times
  3. ↑ Maude Eburnes biography in The New York Times
personal data
SURNAME Eburne, Maude
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian actress
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Bronte-on-the-Lake , Ontario
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 1960
Place of death Hollywood , California