Maude Fealy

Maude Fealy (between 1900 and 1902)

Maude Fealy (actually Maude Mary Hawk ; born March 4, 1883 in Memphis , Tennessee , † November 9, 1971 in Woodland Hills , California ) was an American actress who gained fame especially during the silent film era . Her career spanned more than 70 years.

Life

Maude Fealy was the daughter of James Hawk and Margaret Fealy, who is active as an actress and acting teacher. The mother later married Rafaello Cavallo, director of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra. Maude Fealy made her acting debut in 1886 at the age of three in the play Faust produced by her mother . She made her Broadway debut in 1900 in Quo Vadis , again at her mother's side.

In 1901 and 1902 Maude Fealy toured Great Britain with actor William Gillette in his star role as Sherlock Holmes . This was followed by several appearances with Henry Irving until his death in 1905 . After her return to the United States, she was also considered a popular stage actress there through national appearances from 1907.

In 1911 Fealy began her career as a film actress for productions for the Thanhouser Company. Until 1917 she was seen in a large number of silent films, before she interrupted her film career for 14 years and returned to the stage. Subsequently, Fealy toured the western half of the United States and gave performances at Lakeside Amusement Park near Denver . She also wrote her own pieces. Fealy had previously worked on the script of three silent films in 1914. Like her mother, she also worked as an acting teacher and ran three different schools over the course of her life: The Maude Fealy Studio of Speech in Grand Rapids , the Fealy School of Stage and Screen Acting in Burbank, and the Fealy School of Dramatic Expression in Denver.

From 1931 Fealy appeared again occasionally as a film actress, but was mostly seen in small supporting or extras roles. Among other things, she played an old slave in the monumental film The Ten Commandments in 1956 . After one last small appearance in King of the Buccaneers, Fealy retired from acting in 1958. 72 years after she first appeared on stage.

Maude Fealy was married three times, all three marriages remained childless and were divorced. She spent the last years of her life at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, a borough of Los Angeles . There Fealy died on November 9, 1971 of complications from atherosclerosis at the age of 88. Her tomb is located in the Abbey of the Psalms Mausoleum of Hollywood Forever Cemetery .

Filmography

• 1911: David Copperfield
• 1912: East Lynne
• 1912: Aurora Floyd
• 1913: King René's Daughter
• 1913: Little Dorrit
• 1913: Moths
• 1913: The Legend of Provence
• 1913: An Orphan's Romance
• 1914: Frou Frou
• 1914: The Runaway Princess
• 1914: The Woman Pays
• 1914: A New England Idyl
• 1914: The Golden Cross
• 1914: Kathleen the Irish Rose
• 1914: The Musician's Daughter
• 1914: What She Right in Forgiving Him?
• 1914: Pamela Congreve
• 1914: Deborah
• 1914: Mary Jane's Burglar
• 1914: It Might Have Been Worse
• 1915: The Girl from Tim's Place
• 1915: Bondwomen
• 1916: The Immortal Flame
• 1917: The American Consul
• 1931: Laugh and Get Rich
• 1937: Smashing the Vice Trust
• 1938: The Buccaneer of Louisiana
• 1938: Bulldog Drummond: The Artificial Diamond (Bulldog Drummond's Peril)
• 1938: Race Suicide
• 1939: Union Pacific
• 1940: Emergency Squad
• 1940: Seventeen
• 1944: Lady Alquist's house (Gaslight)
• 1947: Adultery (The Unfaithful)
• 1947: A Double Life (A Double Life)
• 1956: The Ten Commandments (The Ten Commandments)
• 1958: King of the Buccaneer

Web links

Commons : Maude Fealy  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Maude Fealy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Maude Fealy in the Internet Broadway Database (English)
• Maude Fealy in the database of Find a Grave (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Maude Fealy. In: Hollywood Forever. Retrieved April 16, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Maude Fealy. In: Find a Grave . February 29, 2000, accessed April 16, 2020 .