Charlotte Walker (actress)
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Charlotte Walker (December 29, 1876 - March 23, 1958) was a Broadway theater actress from Galveston, Texas.
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[edit] Stage Actress
Walker made her stage debut as a teen. At nineteen she performed in London, England in a comedy called The Mummy. She performed with Richard Mansfield and later returned to her native Texas.
Walker is most noted for her performance as June in Trail of the Lonesome Pine, in 1911. She would later reprise the role in Cecil B. DeMille's 1916 screen version. David Belasco noticed her in On Parole. He signed her for starring roles in 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 Lionel Barrymore in The School For Scandal. It was produced by the Player's Club.
[edit] Motion Pictures
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 simplistic life led by America's forebears.
As a movie 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).
[edit] Personal life
Walker's first husband was physician Dr. John B. Haden. After her divorce she returned to the stage. Her second husband, Eugene Walter, was a playwright. He wrote Trail of the Lonesome Pine. The second marriage also ended in divorce in 1930.
Charlotte Walker died in 1958 at a hospital in Kerrville, Texas. She was 81. Charlotte's daughter Sara Haden became a well known character actress.
[edit] References
- Janesville Daily Gazette, Monday, October 23, 1916, Page 6.
- New York Times, Charlotte Walker, Actress, Dies at 81; Star on Broadway in World War I Era.
