Maude Eburne
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Maude Eburne (10 November 1875 – 15 October 1960) was a Canadian character actress of stage and screen, known for playing eccentric roles. Born in Bronte-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada, she studied elocution in Toronto. Her early theater work was in Ontario and New York, debuting on Broadway to great acclaim as "Coddles" in the 1914 farce A Pair of Sixes.[1] She continued to play mainly humorous domestic roles on stage, appearing in productions such as The Half Moon (1920), Lady Butterfly (1923), Three Cheers (1928) and Many a Slip (1930),[2] before her first significant film role in The Bat Whispers (1930), director Roland West's sound remake of his 1926 silent feature The Bat. She would go on to appear in over a hundred movies, notable among which were The Guardsman (1931), The Vampire Bat (1933, in which she co-starred with Fay Wray), Ladies They Talk About (1933), Ruggles of Red Gap (1935), Man Hunt (1936), Among the Living (1941) and The Boogie Man Will Get You (1942), before retiring in 1951.
She died on 15 October 1960, in Hollywood, California.
[edit] Notes and references
- ^ "Coddles Awakes at Last to Find Herself Famous; After Thirteen Years of Watchful Waiting, Maude Eburne Comes Into Her Own.", The New York Times, 1914-03-29. Retrieved on 2008-02-02.
- ^ Maude Eburne. Northern Stars. Screenarts Incorporated. Retrieved on 2008-02-03.
- Erickson, Hal. Maude Eburne: Biography. New York Times. Macrovision Corporation. Retrieved on 2008-02-02.
