Edith Roberts
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Edith Roberts (September 17, 1899 - August 20, 1935) was a silent film actress from New York City. She was a child performer in vaudeville before she came to Hollywood, California in 1915.
Among her more than one hundred fifty screen credits are roles in Seven Keys To Baldpate (1925), Big Brother (1923), The Wagon Master (1929), and The Mystery Club (1926). Her final film role was in Two O'Clock in the Morning (1929).
In private life she was Mrs. Harold Carter, wife of a real estate operator of 118 South Almont Drive, Los Angeles, California.
Edith Roberts died of septicemia at the Hollywood Hospital in 1935. She was 36 years old. At the hospital she gave birth to a son, her first child. He was named Robert after Edith's death. Christian Science funeral services were conducted at the Hollywood Cemetery Chapel.
[edit] Selected filmography
- The Phantom of the North (1929)
- Roaring Rails (1924)
- Thy Name Is Woman (1924)
- Saturday Night (1922)
- Set Free (1918)
- The Brazen Beauty (1918)
- The Deciding Kiss (1918)
[edit] External links
[edit] References
- Los Angeles Times, Last Honor Paid To Edith Roberts, August 23, 1935, Page A2.
- New York Times, Mrs. Harold Carter, August 22, 1935, Page 15.
