Blanche Bates
| Blanche Bates | |
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| Born |
August 25, 1873 Portland, Oregon |
| Died |
December 25, 1941 (aged 68) San Francisco, California |
| Resting place |
Cypress Lawn Memorial Park Mausoleum, Section E Niche 60, Tier 4 |
| Occupation | Stage, film actress |
| Spouse(s) |
Milton F. Davis(1894-95) George Creel(1912- her death) 2 children |
Blanche Bates (25 August 1873 – 25 December 1941) was an American actress, born in Portland, Oregon. She made her début in San Francisco in a benefit performance of Brander Matthews's This Picture and That. Among her early successes were her Mrs. Hillary in The Senator, Phyllis in The Charity Ball, and Nora in A Doll's House. She joined Daly's company in 1898 and the next year at Daly's Theatre, New York, played Mirtza in The Great Ruby. In 1901 she appeared as Cigarette in Under Two Flags at the Garden Theatre in New York. Thereafter devoting herself to the productions of David Belasco, she won great success in The Darling of the Gods (1902) and The Girl of the Golden West (1905) and after World War I in The Famous Mrs. Fair (1919).
In 1902, H.M. Caldwell Company, New York and Boston, published a lavish souvenir book, Blanche Bates Edition of "Under Two Flags" by Ouida, with handsome illustrated covers, and numerous photographs[1] from the play version (written by Paul M. Potter) starring Miss Bates.
Family
Born in Portland, Oregon, the daughter of F. M. Bates, Blanche was educated in the public schools of San Francisco.[2] In 1894 Bates married Milton F. Davis, a lieutenant in the U.S. Army and later a Brigadier General.[3] They had no children and divorced in 1895. On November 28, 1912 she married George Creel, a journalist and politician,[4] and they had two children, a son George Jr. and a daughter Frances.[5]
Publications
- "Other Holiday Gift-Books", The Publishers' Weekly, Nov. 29, 1902, v.LXII, n.22, whole no. 1609, p. 102.
- Strang, Famous Actresses of the Day in America (Boston, 1899)
References
- ↑ "Other Holiday Gift-Books", The Publishers' Weekly, Nov. 29, 1902, p. 102.
- ↑ Leonard, John William, ed. (1914), Woman's Who's Who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada, 1914-1915, New York: American Commonwealth Company, p. 82.
- ↑ Milton F. Davis (1865-1938) first husband of Blanche Bates; findagrave.com Retrieved March 23, 2015
- ↑ "Blanche Bates a Bride". The Monroe News-Star (Monroe, Louisiana). 28 Nov 1912. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ Great Stars of the American Stage by Daniel C. Blum Profile #34 c.1952(this 2nd edition c.1954)
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Blanche Bates. |
- Blanche Bates at the Internet Movie Database
- Blanche Bates at the Internet Broadway Database
- Blanche Bates at Find a Grave
- Blanche Bates portrait gallery from NYP Library Billy Rose Collection
- Blanche Bates University of Washington, Sayre collection
- Blanche Bates with her children, portrait
- children, Frances Creel and George Creel Jr. with a dog
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