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Name
  
Mary Maurice


Role
  
Actress

Mary Maurice

Died
  
April 30, 1918, Port Carbon, Pennsylvania, United States

Movies
  
The Battle Cry of Peace, A Helpful Sisterhood

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Mary Maurice (15 November 1844 in Morristown, Ohio – 30 April 1918 in Port Carbon, Pennsylvania) was an American actress, who appeared 139 films between 1909 and 1918.

This Vitagraph "mother lady" was a Philadelphian. During her long stage career, she appeared in support of Booth, Barrett, Jefferson, Modjeska and her last engagement was with Robert B. Mantell. She did not mind admitting that she was past sixty, but she had the heart of youth and was the best loved of screen mothers. She played in both The Goddess and The Battle Cry of Peace.

She, Russell Bassett, Sarah Bernhardt, W. Chrystie Miller, Ruby Lafayette, Kate Meek (b. 1838), the veteran character actor Matt B. Snyder and Harold Lloyd regular Anna Townsend were the eight oldest people working in film during the 1910s.

Selected filmography

  • The Cross-Roads (1912)
  • One Can't Always Tell (1913)
  • The Battle Cry of Peace (1915)
  • References

    Mary Maurice Wikipedia