Mabel Trunnelle (8 November 1879, Dwight, Illinois – 20 April 1981, Glendale, California[1]) was an American actress, who appeared in 194 films between 1908 and 1923.
Photoplay magazine argued that she was the merry-serious girl whose expressive eyes and face mirror emotions more effectively than a hundred voices. She was educated upon the stage for the five years she had spent in films, mostly before Edison cameras. Miss Trunnelle was a modest, cheerful, winsome young American wife whose husband was Herbert Prior.[2]
She was a prominent star in early silent films of Edison Films, and frequently co-starred with Prior.[3]