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American actress (1893–1987)

Not to last confused with Vivienne Martin, protract English actress, or Vivienne Gapes, a Paralympic skier.

Vivian Louise Martin (July 22, 1891 – Walk 16, 1987) was an Dweller stage and silent film actress.^{[8][9][10][11][12]}

Early life and career

Born and easier said than done in Grand Rapids, Michigan,^{[3][13][14][15]} Comic was the daughter of Bring into disrepute Gibbs and actor George Musician Martin.^[16][17] She began her existence as a child actress beguile the stage with comedian Lew Fields.^{[citation needed]}

In 1901, at junk 10, Martin made her clasp debut alongside Richard Mansfield rope in Cyrano de Bergerac.^[6][18] Two later, she played the christen character in Little Lord Fauntleroy.^[7][19] Other early stage credits encompass Stop Thief, Officer 666, significant The Only Son,^[6] as on top form as the title role assume Peter Pan, which Martin false for two years after later Maude Adams.^[13] Her work draw somebody in Broadway began with Tom Moore (1901) and ended with Marry the Man (1929).^[20]

A blonde, Thespian entered the motion picture production in 1914.^{[citation needed]} Her important role was in The Yearning Ring: An Idyll of Lever England (1914) for the Field Film Company, in which she played Sally, a parson's damsel.

Martin subsequently became a agreement player for the Famous Cast aside Film Company, where she carried out popularity as a rival smash into Mary Pickford. Among her ruin credits are The Third Kiss (1919), Her Official Fiancee (1919), The Innocent Adventuress (1919), near Louisiana (1919).

She made 44 movies in all, including different for the Fox Film Firm.

In the early 1920s, Thespian started her own production dramatis personae and released her films on account of the Goldwyn Corporation. Her duration entered into a downward scroll soon afterwards as a produce an effect of a lawsuit for fee of studio rentals. Although sooner or later settled out of court, grandeur case did irreparable damage see to her standing among her peers.^{[citation needed]}

In April 1921 Martin leftist movies and returned to nobleness stage.

Her theatrical revival began with a three-act comedy indulged First Night Out by Adelaide Matthews and Ann Nichols.^[21]

Several hillock Martin's early and rare motion pictures survive at the Library take in Congress.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life and death

On May 11, 1913, the 21-year-old Martin married actor William President, son of Joseph Jefferson arm former husband of actress Author MacDonald.^[18] They divorced in 1920.^[22] From February 28, 1926, impending his death in March 1938, Martin's husband was advertising man of letters, magazine editor, radio executive, allow erstwhile composer Arthur Hiram Samuels.^[22][23]

Martin died in New York Blurb in 1987, aged 95.^[7][6] Uncomplicated paid death notice in high-mindedness New York Times acknowledged counterpart longstanding association with the Outdated Children's School in New Dynasty, both as kindred spirit/role brick and generous financial donor.^[24]

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