Martha Mansfield
Martha Mansfield was born in New York City, New York, United States on July 14th, 1899 and is the Movie Actress. At the age of 24, Martha Mansfield 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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Martha Mansfield (born Martha Ehrlich, 1899 – 1923) was an American actress who appeared in silent films and vaudeville stage plays.
Early life
She was born in New York City to Maurice and Harriett Gibson Ehrlich. Edith, her younger sister, was born in 1905. Martha was born in Mansfield, Ohio, her birth record and death certificate all point to New York City as her place of birth, according to several biographies. Harriet, her mother, emigrated from Ireland in 1885, and was born in Mansfield, Ohio. Martha adopted the town's name as her stage name later in life. 239 The late 1910s Mansfield and her mother had migrated to the Bronx and were living on 158th Street.
Career
She decided to be an actress at the age of 14. She lobbied for, and received, a role in 1912's Broadway revival of Little Women. She has also started working as an artist's model and dancer. In 1913, she appeared in the musical Hop o' My Thumb, while still using her birth name. She appeared in the 1915 and Robinson Crusoe, Jr. shows before changing her name. She posed for illustrator Harrison Fisher and was the subject of more than 300 photographs by Alfred Cheney Johnston as a model.
Martha Early was signed to a six-month deal with Essanay Studios in 1917, where she appeared in three films with French actor Max Linder. In 1918, she appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies. She made her Broadway Bill debut in the same year, opposite Harold Lockwood. Mansfield revealed in early 1919 that she had decided to pursue a film career full-time. Mansfield played leads in films directed by Famous Players-Lasky before she relocating to the west coast. She appeared in The Midnight Frolic, a Florenz Ziegfeld book written in October 1919.: 237-238
Hugh Ford produced Civilian Clothes (1920), her first Hollywood film. Millicent Carew appeared in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde's film adaptation, which starred John Barrymore. She then joined Selznick Pictures, where she appeared in The Perfect Lover (1919), costarring Eugene O'Brien. Mansfield returned to the stage in 1921 as part of a vaindeville tour. The following year, she appeared in two independent films: Queen of the Moulin Rouge and Till We Meet Again. The remainder of the year she spent touring the vaintuous countryside around the country.: 240
Mansfield completed her Selznick contract in 1923 and joined Fox Film Corporation. Edmund Lowe and Béla Lugosi appeared in The Silent Command, her first film for Fox. 242 Potash and Perlmutter were the final complete features in her short film career, both from 1923.
