Blanche Sweet
Blanche Sweet was born in Chicago, Illinois, United States on June 18th, 1896 and is the Movie Actress. At the age of 90, Blanche Sweet biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Sarah Blanche Sweet (June 18, 1896 – September 6, 1986) was an American silent film actress who started her career in the early days of the Hollywood motion picture film industry.
Early life
Born Sarah Blanche Sweet (although her first name Sarah was never used) in Chicago, Illinois, in 1896, she was the granddaughter of Pearl Alexander, a dancer, and Gilbert Joel Sweet, a wine merchant. Antrim and Gertrude Short were cousins of Blanche. Blanche died as an infant, and Cora Blanche Alexander, her maternal grandmother, raised her. Cora Alexander discovered her many roles as a child. She toured in The Battle of the Strong with Marie Burroughs and Maurice Barrymore at the age of four.
In a D. W. Griffith-directed film, Sweet worked with Lionel of Barrymore. She began working at Biograph Studios under the direction of director D. W. Griffith in 1909. She had become a rival to Mary Pickford, who had also started for Griffith the year before, by 1910.
Sound film and later career
Sweet's career was hampered with the emergence of talkies. Sweet produced only three talking photographs, including her critically acclaimed appearance in Show Girl (1930), before resuming from the screen and marrying stage actor Raymond Hackett in 1935. The marriage continued until Hackett's death in 1958.
Sweet spent the remainder of her stage career in radio and secondary Broadway theater roles. She eventually left both of these professions and began working in a Los Angeles department store. When film scholars invited her to Europe in the late 1960s to be acknowledged for her work, her acting career was revived.
In 1975, she was rewarded with the George Eastman Award for her contribution to the field of film.
Sweet was one of several living silent film stars in Kevin Brownlow's documentary about the silent film age Hollywood in 1980.
Sweet is the subject of Anthony Slide's "Portrait of Blanche Sweet," a 1982 film in which she explores her life and work. On September 24, 1984, a tribute to Sweet was held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Sweet's 1925 film The Sporting Venus introduced her.
