May Buckley (1904)
May Buckley’s private life was often in newspaper headlines, especially in 1901, when a man who claimed to be her husband shot at her in a hotel dining room, wounding […]
Minnie Maddern Fiske (1905)
Minnie Maddern Fiske (1865-1932) was one of America’s greatest actresses. She was born in 1865 in New Orleans to the manager of the St. Charles Theatre and of Lizzie Maddern, […]
Maude Fealy (1896)
Among the names of women who had the greatest impact on the Historic Elitch Theatre — Mary Elitch, Helen Bonfils, and Haila Stoddard — the name Maude Fealy must be […]
David Warfield (1908)
David Warfield was born on November 28, 1866 in San Francisco and began his theatrical career as an usher in the city’s Bush Street theatre. At the time of his […]
Antoinette Perry (1904)
“Antoinette Perry, a Denver native, has become one of the most obscure celebrities of the century. In ‘Notable Names in the Theatre,’ she rates a line in the biographies of […]