Edith Hallor

Edith Hallor, also known as Edith Kingdon Hallor, (March 26, 1896 – May 21, 1971) was an American stage and film actress.^[1][2] She starred in several Broadway musicals from 1915 through 1920. She appeared in a number of films during the silent era from 1914 through 1922. She later appeared in a handful of minor film roles during the sound era from 1937 through 1945.

Edith Kingdon Hallor was born on March 26, 1896 in Washington, D.C.^[3] She was the sister of actors Ray Hallor^[3] and Ethel Hallor.^[4] She began her career as a member of the Columbia Players, a repertory theatre troupe in residence at the Columbia Theatre in Washington, D.C. Her repertoire with this organization included the role of Lady Stapleton in Capt. R. Marshall's A Royal Family (1913).^[5] In 1914 she performed with Emma Trentini's company at the Shubert-Teck Theatre in Buffalo, New York^[6] and the Alvin Theatre in Pittsburgh.^[7] She simultaneously worked as a silent film actress.^[8] Her early films included The Governor's Ghost (1914),^[9]Through Dante's Flames (1914),^[10]The Criminal Path (1914),^[11]Thou Shalt Not (1914),^[12]The War of Wars; or, the Franco-German Invasion (1914),^[13]Dr. Rameau (1915),^[14]The Family Stain (1915),^[15]Black Friday (1916), A Man and the Woman (1917),^[16] and Wrath (1917).^[17]

Hallor interpretó a la condesa Napolska en The Peasant Girl de Oskar Nedbal en Broadway en el 44th Street Theatre en 1915. ^{[ 18 ]} Protagonizó junto a Fanny Brice y Eddie Cantor en las Ziegfeld Follies de 1917 en las que cantó las canciones "In the Beautiful Garden of Girls" y "Hello, My Dearie". ^{[ 19 ]} Protagonizó dos musicales más de Broadway en 1917; interpretando a Jane Witherspoon en Leave It to Jane de Jerome Kern en el Longacre Theatre ^{[ 20 ]} y como artista destacada en otra revista Ziegfeld, Dance and Grow Thin , en el Cocoanut Grove Theatre . ^{[ 21 ]}

En 1920 Hallor regresó a Broadway para actuar en la revista Broadway Brevities of 1920 en el Winter Garden Theatre ; un espectáculo en el que cantó "Beautiful Faces" de Irving Berlin . ^{[ 22 ]} Continuó trabajando como actriz de cine a principios de la década de 1920 con papeles en Children of Destiny (1920), ^{[ 23 ]} The Blue Pearl (1920), ^{[ 24 ]} The Inside of the Cup (1921), ^{[ 25 ]} Just Outside the Door (1921), ^{[ 26 ]} y Human Hearts (1922). ^{[ 27 ]} Más tarde tuvo papeles menores en películas sonoras; incluyendo apariciones en Maid of Salem (1937), ^{[ 28 ]} Just Off Broadway (1942), ^{[ 29 ]} Wilson (1944), ^{[ 30 ]} Having Wonderful Crime (1945), ^{[ 31 ]} y A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945). ^{[ 30 ]}

Hallor estuvo casada con L. Lawrence Weber , ^{[ 32 ]} y tuvieron un hijo, Lawrence Weber Jr. ^{[ 33 ]} Se divorciaron el 18 de junio de 1920, alegando que ella le había sido infiel con Jack Dillon. ^{[ 32 ]} En 1934 se casó con el director de cine John Francis Dillon . ^{[ 30 ] [ 33 ]}

Hallor murió de cáncer en Newport Beach, California, el 21 de mayo de 1971. ^{[ 3 ]}

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