Gypsy Abbott
Gypsy Abbott | |
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 Who's Who in the Film World, 1914 | |
| Born | January 31, 1896 Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. |
| Died | July 25, 1952 (aged 56) Hollywood, California, U.S. |
| Other names | Gypsie Abbott |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 3 |
Gypsy Abbott (January 31, 1896 – July 25, 1952) was an American actress of stage and silent film.
Personal life
Gypsy Abbott was born on January 31, 1896 in Atlanta, Georgia.[1] She married director Henry King in 1915 at Balboa.[2][3]
Career
Gypsy Abbott performed for a number of years on stage and in vaudeville.[1] She began with E. H. Sothern's repertoire company.[1] She performed in stock shows in Kansas City, St. Joseph, Missouri, and Chicago. While she was on the road, she met Henry King. She did a fifteen-minute vaudeville act where she would sing and swing over the audience and toss roses into the crowd, including playing at Fred Mace's Photoplayers Club at Balboa where she met King again.[3]
She played in The Minister's Daughter.[3] She played Flora Belle Fry in a road production of George M. Cohan's Little Johnny Jones.[1]
Her first film, The Path of Sorrow (1913) was with Balboa Feature Film Company in Long Beach, California.[1][4]
Death
Abbott died on July 25, 1952, aged 55.[5] She is buried in the Grotto Section at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.
Filmography
- The Path of Sorrow (1913), short film[4]
- Called Back (1914)
- The Key to Yesterday (1914)
- The Man Who Could Not Lose (1914)
- St. Elmo (1914)
- Who Pays? (1915)
- Beulah (1915)
- For the Commonwealth (1915)
- Letters Entangled (1915)
- The Fruit of Folly (1915)
- Vengeance Is Mine! (1916)
- For Ten Thousand Bucks (1916)
- Bungling Bill's Dress Suit (1916)
- Some Liars (1916)
- Her Luckless Scheme (1916)
- Going to the Dogs (1916)
- Rolling to Ruin (1916)
- Paste and Politics (1916)
- A Touch of High Life (1916)
- Her Painted Pedigree (1916)
- Bungling Bill's Bow-Wow (1916)
- Lost, Strayed or Stolen (1916)
- With or Without (1916)
- The Wicked City (1916)
- Shot in the Fracas (1916)
- Jealous Jolts (1916)
- A Lislebank(1917)
- A Circus Cyclone (1917)
- The Musical Marvel (1917)
- The Butcher's Nightmare (1917)
- A Studio Stampede (1917)
- His Bogus Boast (1917)
- When Ben Bolted (1917)
- Lorelei of the Sea (1917)
Sources
- ^ a b c d e Justice, Fred C.; Smith, Tom R. (1914). Who's Who in the Film World: Being Biographies with Photographic Reproductions of Prominent Men and Women who Through Their Genius and Untiring Energy Have Contributed So Greatly Toward the Upbuilding of the Moving Picture Industry. Film World Publishing Company. p. 29.
- ^ Pawlak, Debra Ann (2012). Bringing Up Oscar: The Story of the Men and Women Who Founded the Academy. Pegasus Books. ISBN 9781605982168. Retrieved July 30, 2017.
- ^ a b c King, Henry; Shepard, David; Perry, Ted; Thompson, Frank T. (1995). Henry King, director : from silents to ʼscope. Los Angeles : Directors Guild of America. p. 24. ISBN 978-1-882766-03-1.
- ^ a b Jura, Jean-Jacques; II, Rodney Norman Bardin (August 13, 2015). Balboa Films: A History and Filmography of the Silent Film Studio. McFarland. pp. 46, 241. ISBN 978-1-4766-0901-0.
- ^ "Movie Director King's Wife Dies". Pasadena Independent. International News Service. July 27, 1952. p. 45. Retrieved February 8, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
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