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Charlotte Walker

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Charlotte Walker
Walker in 1902 Broadway play The Crisis
Born
Charlotte Ganahl Walker

(1876-12-29)December 29, 1876
DiedMarch 23, 1958(1958-03-23) (aged 81)
Resting placeOld City Cemetery, Galveston County, Texas, U.S.[1]
OccupationActress
Years active1900–1941
Spouses
Dr. John Haden
(m. 1896; div. 1903)
(m. 1908; div. 1923)
Children2, including Sara Haden

Charlotte Ganahl Walker (December 29, 1876 – March 23, 1958)[2] was a Broadway theater actress.[3]

Walker as sketched by Marguerite Martyn, 1910

Stage actress

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Walker made her stage debut as a teen in 1893. At nineteen 1895 she performed in London, England in a comedy called The Mummy and in the same year performed with Richard Mansfield. Later, she returned to her native Texas after marrying and had two children.[citation needed] In 1900, she made her Broadway debut in Miss Prinnt.[4] She returned to the stage in 1901 and appeared with James A. Herne. She was a leading lady with James K. Hackett from 1901 to 1905. In 1907 she appeared in the Broadway hit The Warrens of Virginia whose cast also had Gladys Smith (later Mary Pickford) and Cecil B. DeMille. She appeared as June in Trail of the Lonesome Pine, in 1911.[5] She would later reprise the role in Cecil B. DeMille's 1916 film Trail of the Lonesome Pine. David Belasco noticed her in On Parole. He signed her for starring roles in plays The Warrens of Virginia, Just a Wife, and Call The Doctor. Each of the Belasco productions was staged prior to World War I.

She continued to act on the Broadway stage. In 1923 she played with Ethel Barrymore in The School For Scandal. It was produced by the Player's Club.

Films

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Walker's motion picture career began in 1915 with Kindling and Out of the Darkness. Sloth (1917) is a five-reeler which features Walker. In the third reel of this film she plays a youthful Dutch maid who is about sixteen years old. The setting is an old Dutch settlement on Staten Island, New York. The theme stresses the perils of indolence to a nation of people. It cautions against permitting luxury to replace the simple life led by America's forebears. In her later silent film work Walker can be seen in The Midnight Girl (1925) starring alongside a pre-Dracula Bela Lugosi. The Midnight Girl is one of Walker's few silents that survives.

As a film actress Walker continued to perform in films into the early 1930s. Her later screen performances include roles in Lightnin' (1930), Millie (1931), Salvation Nell (1931), and Hotel Variety (1933).

Personal life

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Walker married her first husband, Dr. John B. Haden, on November 16, 1896, in New York City. With him she had two daughters, Beatrice Shelton Haden (born 1897) and Katherine Haden (b. 1899), who was known as the actress Sara Haden. After her divorce, she returned to the stage. Dr. Haden died in 1930. Her second husband, Eugene Walter, was a playwright who adapted the novel The Trail of the Lonesome Pine for the Broadway stage. The second marriage also ended in divorce in 1930.

Charlotte Walker died in 1958 at a hospital in Kerrville, Texas at age 81.

Filmography

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Pardners (1917)

Silent

Year Title Role Notes
1915 Kindling Maggie Schultz Paramount Pictures
Out of the Darkness Helen Scott Paramount Pictures
1916 The Trail of the Lonesome Pine June Tolliver Paramount Pictures
1917 Pardners Olive Mutual Film
Lost film
The Seventh Sin Margaret Brent / Sally Wells / Molly Pitcher Triangle Film Corporation
Mary Lawson's Secret Mary Lawson Pathé Exchange
Lost film
1918 Just a Woman Anna Ward US Exhibitor's Booking Corporation
Lost film
Men Mrs. Burton US Exhibitor's Booking Corporation
Lost film
Every Mother's Son An American Mother Fox Film Corporation
Lost film
1919 Eve in Exile Eve Ricardo Pathé Exchange
1924 The Lone Wolf Clare Henshaw Associated Exhibitors
Lost film
The Sixth Commandment Mrs. Calhoun Associated Exhibitors
Lost film
Classmates Mrs. Stafford First National
Lost film
1925 The Mad Marriage Rosemary Films
Lost film
The Midnight Girl Mrs. Schuyler Chadwick Pictures
The Manicure Girl Mrs. Morgan Paramount Pictures
Lost film
1926 The Savage Mrs. Atwater First National
Lost film
The Great Deception Mrs. Mansfield First National
Lost film
1927 The Clown Columbia Pictures
1928 Annapolis Aunt Pathé Exchange

Sound

Year Title Role Notes
1929 Paris Bound Helen White Pathé Exchange
South Sea Rose The Mother Superior Fox Film Corporation
Lost film
1930 Double Cross Roads Mrs. Tilton Fox Film Corporation
Three Faces East Catherine, Lady Chamberlain First National
Scarlet Pages Mrs. Mason First National
Lightnin' Mrs. Thatcher Fox Film Corporation
1931 Millie Mrs Maitland RKO
Salvation Nell Maggie Tiffany Pictures
1933 Hotel Variety Capitol Film Exchange
Lost film
1937 Scattergood Meets Broadway RKO

References

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Notes
  1. ^ Accustomed to her Face
  2. ^ Wilson, Scott (2016). Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company. p. 782. ISBN 978-0-7864-7992-4.
  3. ^ Charlotte Walker; North American Theatre Online site offered to most colleges and universities for free
  4. ^ "Charlotte Walker". Internet Broadway Database. The Broadway League. Archived from the original on December 16, 2016. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
  5. ^ Great Actors and Actresses of the American Stage: In Historic Photographs, p.43 #111 c.1983 edit. by Stanley Appelbaum..Retrieved August 8, 2018
Bibliography
  • Janesville Daily Gazette, Monday, October 23, 1916, Page 6.
  • The New York Times, "Charlotte Walker, Actress, Dies at 81; Star on Broadway in World War I Era".
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