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Elsie Mackay (actress)

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Nationality
  
American

Name
  
Elsie Mackay

Role
  
Actress



Born
  
1894
Roebourne, Western Australia

Occupation
  
stage and screen actress

Died
  
March 13, 1928, Atlantic Ocean

Movies
  
The Tidal Wave, A Dead Certainty, Snow in the Desert, A Son of David

Spouse
  
Lionel Atwill (m. 1920–1928), Dennis Wyndham (m. 1917–1922)

Parents
  
Jean Paterson Shanks, James Mackay, 1st Earl of Inchcape

Grandparents
  
James Mackay, Deborah Lyle

Similar People
  
Dennis Wyndham, Lionel Atwill, Henrietta Louise Cromwell

Private life

In 1920 Mackay became the second wife of actor Lionel Atwill, but they divorced in March 1928, after he had detectives raid an apartment on Manhattan's 68th Street in 1925, where Mackay was found with actor Max Montesole. One source claims that they had a son, John. A second source says that Atwill was survived by his son John in 1946. A third source is somewhat contradictory as Atwill's son John from his first marriage died in World War II.

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Theatre and film

Elsie Mackay's stage career included:

  • 'Grumpy' at Hollis Street Theatre, Boston. March 27, 1915-16.
  • And in Broadway:

  • Another Man's Shoes, 1918, where she replaced Alma Tell as Lionel Atwill's leading woman,
  • As You Like It, as Rosalind 1919,
  • Clarence, as Violet Pinney 1919,
  • Poldekin, as Maria 1920,
  • Deburau, as Marie Duplessis, 1921,
  • The White-Faced Fool, 1922,
  • The Comedian, as Jacqueline, 1923.
  • The only film in which Elsie Mackay is known to have performed, as an uncredited bit part actress, was:

  • Sylvia Scarlett (1935)
  • References

    Elsie Mackay (actress) Wikipedia