Sara Sothern

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Sara Sothern , nee Sara Viola Warmbrodt , married Sara Viola Taylor (born August 21, 1895 in Arkansas City , † September 11, 1994 in Palm Springs , California ) was an American theater actress and mother of Elizabeth Taylor .

Life

Sara Sothern was born as Sara Viola Warmbrodt. Her father, an émigré from Germany, was an engineer. Her mother played the piano and violin. Sara studied acting in Kansas City, she took the stage name Sara Sothern for the stage. She was the Twenty Flapper Girl type and was one of the first actresses to wear a bob . Until December 1922 she performed on stages in Los Angeles . Between 1922 and 1926 she played on Broadway . At the age of 27 she had an appearance in the fourth act of Channing Pollock's piece The Fool , which was inspired by the story of Francis of Assisi , as the physically disabled 15-year-old 'Mary Margret'. The production premiered in Los Angeles and performed on Broadway and London. The British Times declared their performance a triumph. Backstage , Sara Sothern received a diamond brooch from Mary , George V's daughter .

After she married the art dealer Francis Lenn Taylor in 1926, Sothern retired from the stage. After living in England for several years, where her children Liz Taylor and Howard Taylor were born, she returned to the United States. In Los Angeles , California, she devoted herself to her family and her daughter's film career. Sothern died in Palm Springs at the age of 99.

Broadway roles

  • The Little Spitfire , 1926
  • Mama Loves Papa , Forrest Theater, New York, 1926
  • Fool's Bell , Criterion Theater, New York, 1925
  • Arabesque , National Theater, New York, 1925
  • The Fool , Times Square Theater, New York, 1922-23

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ William J. Mann: How to Be a Movie Star. Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood 1941-198 , Faber & Faber, London 2011, p. 414, fn. 55
  2. ↑ Alexander Walker: Elizabeth. The Life of Elizabeth Taylor , Grove Press, Reprint 2001, ISBN 978-0-8021-3769-2 , pp. 6/7
  3. ^ Who's Who on the Stage , Article Preview, The New York Times, September 12, 1926
  4. ↑ William J. Mann, ibid. P. 53
personal data
SURNAME Sothern, Sara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Warmbrodt, Sara Viola (maiden name); Taylor, Sara Viola
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American stage actress and mother of Elizabeth Taylor
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Arkansas City
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 1994
Place of death Palm Springs , California