May Allison
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May Allison (June 14, 1890-1890 – March 27, 1989) was an American actress whose greatest fame came in the early twentieth century in the form of silent film, although she also appeared on stage.
Life and career
Allison was born in Rising Fawn, Georgia, and the youngest of five children born to Dr. John Simon "Sam" Allison and Nannie Virginia (née Wise) Allison. She made her Broadway debut in the 1914 production of Apartment 12-K before settling in Hollywood, California, in the early days of motion pictures. Allison's debut on film in 1915 was as an ingenue in the 1915 star-making Theda Bara vehicle A Fool There Was A Fool There Was A Fool.
Audiences were captivated of Allison's on-screen performance, as she was opposite actor Harold Lockwood in the Allan Dwan directed romantic film David Harum. During the First World War I period, the two actors appeared in about twenty-five critically acclaimed films together, becoming one of the first celebrated on-screen romance duos.
Allison and Lockwood's best-known film romances came to an end in 1918 when Lockwood died at the age of 31 after contracting Spanish influenza, a crippling epidemic that swept the globe from 1918 to 1919, killing 50 to 100 million people worldwide. Allison's career then stalled notice without her well-known leading male co-star. She continued to act in films into the 1920s, but she never received the same amount of public esteem as when she starred opposite Harold Lockwood. Madge Bellamy and Warner Baxter appeared in 1927's The Telephone Girl, her last film before retiring.
Allison was ostensibly married to Col. William Stephenson in Santa Ana, California, in December 1919, but the marriage was annulled in February 1920. Allison married writer and actor Robert Ellis on Thanksgiving Day in 1920. Allison petitioned Ellis for divorce in December 1923, citing cruelty as the reason. According to her, the couple married in Greenwich, Connecticut, on November 25, 1920, and they were divorced about November 5, 1923. Allison then married Photoplay magazine editor James R. Quirk, a partnership that lasted until his death in 1932.
Allison's last marriage, to Cleveland industrialist Carl Norton Osborne, lasted more than 40 years until his death in 1982. She spent a substantial portion of her time in Tucker's Town, Bermuda, as a Cleveland Orchestra patron.