Miriam Cooper

Miriam Cooper
Photoplay Magazine, 1915

Miriam Cooper (born November 7, 1891 in Baltimore , Maryland , † April 12, 1976 in Charlottesville , Virginia ) was an American actress .

Life

Miriam Cooper was one of five children of a Roman Catholic family. The father left the family and went to Europe. The mother initially received support from the mother-in-law, after whose death the fatherless family lived in deep poverty. Miriam Cooper had to live in an orphanage for a time and was eventually brought up in a boarding school by nuns. After school, the 1.47 m tall girl earned her living as a model and played her first small role in a film under the direction of the legendary DW Griffith in 1911. She then went to Florida, where she made more than 30 films for Kalem Studios . In 1914 she rediscovered Griffith and gave her the lead roles in his classics The Birth of a Nation and Intolerance . During filming, she fell in love with Griffith Raoul Walsh's assistant and married him in 1916.

After her wedding, she only made a few films under the direction of her husband. The wish to become a mother remained unfulfilled. Eventually the couple adopted two boys. However, the marriage ended in divorce in 1925 due to Raoul Walsh's constant infidelity. Miriam Cooper never made another movie and never married again. In the last years of her life she was rediscovered and took part in several silent film festivals and gave numerous interviews.

Filmography

• 1910: The Duke's Plan (short film)
• 1912: A Blot on the 'Scutcheon (short film)
• 1912: Battle of Pottsburg Bridge (short film)
• 1912: Victim of Circumstances (short film)
• 1912: Tide of Battle (short film)
• 1912: War's Havoc (short film)
• 1912: 'Fighting' Dan McCool (short film)
• 1912: The Drummer Girl of Vicksburg (short film)
• 1912: The Filibusterers (short film)
• 1912: The Bugler of Battery B (short film)
• 1912: The Siege of Petersburg (short film)
• 1912: The Soldier Brothers of Susanna (short film)
• 1912: The Prison Ship (short film)
• 1912: Saved from Court Martial (short film)
• 1912: A Railroad Lochinvar (short film)
• 1912: The Grit of the Girl Telegrapher (short film)
• 1912: The Confederate Ironclad (short film)
• 1912: His Mother's Picture (short film)
• 1912: The Rival Engineers (short film)
• 1912: The Peril of the Cliffs (short film)
• 1912: The Girl in the Caboose (short film)
• 1912: Battle in the Virginia Hills (short film)
• 1912: The Farm Bully (short film)
• 1912: The Toll Gate Raiders (short film)
• 1913: A Treacherous Shot (short film)
• 1913: A Sawmill Hazard (short film)
• 1913: The Turning Point (short film)
• 1913: The Woe of Battle (short film)
• 1913: Prisoners of War (short film)
• 1913: The Battle of Bloody Ford (short film)
• 1913: The Exposure of the Land Swindlers (short film)
• 1913: The Infamous Don Miguel (short film)
• 1913: Captured by Strategy (short film)
• 1913: Shenandoah (short film)
• 1913: Rounding Up the Counterfeiters (short film)
• 1913: The Smuggler (short film)
• 1913: The Moonshiner's Mistake (short film)
• 1913: A Railroad Conspiracy (short film)
• 1913: The Sacrifice at the Spillway (short film)
• 1913: The Hand of Destiny (short film)
• 1913: The Railroad Inspector's Peril (short film)
• 1913: The End of the Run (short film)
• 1913: The Railroad Detective's Dilemma (short film)
• 1913: Across the Continent (short film)
• 1913: The Octoroon (short film)
• 1913: Uncle Tom's Cabin (short film)
• 1913: The Pseudo Prodigal (short film)
• 1914: For His Master (short film)
• 1914: When Fate Frowned (short film)
• 1914: The Smugglers of Sligo (short film)
• 1914: A Diamond in the Rough (short film)
• 1914: The Dishonored Medal
• 1914: Home, Sweet Home (biography)
• 1914: Golden Dross (short film)
• 1914: For the Sake of Kate (short film)
• 1914: The Stolen Radium (short film)
• 1914: The Rose Bush of Memories (short film)
• 1914: The Horse Wrangler (short film)
• 1914: Their First Acquaintance (short film)
• 1914: How Izzy Stuck to His Post (short film)
• 1914: Izzy and the Diamond (short film)
• 1914: Lest We Forget (short film)
• 1914: The Gunman (short film)
• 1914: Izzy and His Rival (short film)
• 1914: The Odalisque (short film)
• 1915: The Double Deception (short film)
• 1915: The Birth of a Nation (The Birth of a Nation)
• 1915: The Fatal Black Bean (short film)
• 1915: His Return (short film)
• 1915: Only a Tramp (short film)
• 1915: The Slave Girl (short film)
• 1915: The Greaser (short film)
• 1915: The Artist's Wife (short film)
• 1915: A Man for All That (short film)
• 1915: The Story of a Story (short film)
• 1915: The Old Shoemaker (short film)
• 1915: The Burned Hand (short film)
• 1916: intolerance
• 1917: The Honor System
• 1917: The Silent Lie
• 1917: The Innocent Sinner
• 1917: Betrayed
• 1918: The Woman and the Law
• 1918: The Prussian Cur
• 1919: The Mother and the Law
• 1919: Evangeline
• 1919: Should a Husband Forgive?
• 1920: The Deep Purple
• 1921: The Oath
• 1921: Serenade
• 1922: Kindred of the Dust
• 1923: The Hero
• 1923: Is Money Everything?
• 1923: The Girl Who Came Back
• 1923: Her Accidental Husband
• 1923: The Broken Wing
• 1923: Daughters of the Rich
• 1924: After the Ball

Web links

Commons : Miriam Cooper  - Collection of Images

• Miriam Cooper in the Internet Movie Database (English)