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Full Name
  
Eleanor Robson

Books
  
The fabric of memory

Role
  
Actress

Name
  
Eleanor Belmont

Occupation
  
Stage actress


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Born
  
13 December 1879 (
1879-12-13
)
Wigan, Lancashire, England

Died
  
October 24, 1979, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States

Spouse
  
August Belmont, Jr. (m. 1910)

Resting place
  
Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery

Awards
  
Richard A. Cook Gold Medal Award

People also search for
  
August Belmont, Jr., August Belmont, Elizabeth Hamilton Morgan

Eleanor Robson Belmont (13 December 1879 – 24 October 1979) was an English actress and prominent public figure in the United States. George Bernard Shaw wrote Major Barbara for her, but contractual problems prevented her from playing the role. Mrs. Belmont was involved in the Metropolitan Opera Association as the first woman on the Board of Directors, and she founded the Metropolitan Opera Guild.

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Biography

She was born on 13 December 1879 in Wigan, Lancashire to Madge Carr Cook and Charles Robson, and moved to the United States as a young girl. Her stage career began at age 17 in San Francisco and she worked in stock companies from Honolulu to Milwaukee before making her New York debut in 1900 as Bonita, the ranchman's daughter in Augustus Thomas's Arizona. Her ten-year career as a leading Broadway actress included top roles in such plays as Robert Browning's In a Balcony (1900), Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (1903) opposite Kyrle Bellew, Israel Zangwill's Merely Mary Ann (1903–04 and 1907), Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer (1905), Zangwill's Nurse Marjorie (1906), and Paul Armstrong's adaptation of Bret Harte's Salomy Jane (1907). She retired when she wed August Belmont, Jr. on 26 February 1910.

In 1912 she started The Society for the Prevention of Useless Gift Giving (SPUG) with Anne Tracy Morgan.

Her husband died on 10 December 1924.

Mrs. August Belmont, as she thereafter was known, joined the Metropolitan Opera's Board of Directors in 1933, founded the Metropolitan Opera Guild in 1935 and the National Council of the Metropolitan Opera in 1952. These organisations helped shape the multi-source public-private funding model used by U.S. performing arts organisations in the ensuing decades

Mrs. Belmont died in her sleep in New York City on 24 October 1979.

Filmography

Writer
1941
The Case of the Black Parrot (play "In the Next Room" - as Eleanor Robeson Belmont)
1930
In the Next Room (play)
Actress
1905
A Gentleman of France (Short)
Self
1913
Society Day at Piping Rock (Documentary short) as
Self (as Mrs. August Belmont)

References

Eleanor Robson Belmont Wikipedia


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