Ethel Clayton
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From Wikipedia Ethel Clayton (November 8, 1882 — June 6, 1966) was an American actress of the silent film era. Clayton's screen debut came in 1909, in a short called Justified. She jockeyed her early film appearances with a burgeoning stage career. Her pretty blond looks were reminiscent of the famous Gibson Girl drawings by Charles Dana Gibson. On the stage she appeared mainly in musicals or musical reviews such as The Ziegfeld Follies of 1911. These musical appearances indicate a singing talent Clayton may have possessed but went unused in her many silent screen performances. In 1912 she appeared in "The Country Boy" on stage at the Lyceum Theatre in Rochester New York and made her feature length film debut in For the Love of a Girl. The film was directed by Barry O'Neil. She was cast with Harry Myers, Charles Arthur, and Peter Lang. She was also directed by William Demille, Robert G. Vignola, George Melford, Donald Crisp, Dallas M. Fitzgerald, and Clifford Sanforth. Like many silent film actors Clayton's career was hurt by the coming of sound to motion pictures. She continued her career in small parts in movies until she retired in 1948. Her screen credits number more than 180. Clayton was first married to actor-director Joseph Kaufman until his death in 1918 in the Spanish Influenza epidemic. She later married silent film actor and former star Ian Keith twice and they divorced twice. In both cases Clayton cited cruelty and excessive drinking. Clayton and Keith were first married in Minneapolis in 1928 and first separated on January 13, 1931. Ethel Clayton died on June 6, 1966 at St. John's Hospital in Oxnard, California, aged 83. She was buried at Ivy Lawn Memorial Park in Ventura, California. For her contributions to the motion picture industry, Ethel Clayton has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Known for
Credits
You and Me (1938)
as Employment Agency Clerk (uncredited)
The Major and the Minor (1942)
as Ball Guest (uncredited)
Waikiki Wedding (1937)
as Tourist (uncredited)
Dixie (1943)
as Woman (uncredited)
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
as Customer (uncredited)
If I Were King (1938)
as Old Woman (uncredited)
Wealth (1921)
as Mary McLeod
Easy Living (1937)
as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Geronimo (1939)
Actor
Wells Fargo (1937)
as Pioneer Woman
Secrets (1933)
as Audrey Carlton
Yankee Pluck (1917)
as Polly Pollard
Exclusive (1937)
Actor
True to Life (1943)
as Woman (uncredited)
The All-American (1932)
as Mrs. Bowen
Cocoanut Grove (1938)
as Undetermined Role
New York Town (1941)
as (uncredited)
King of Chinatown (1939)
as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Men with Wings (1938)
as Woman
Boy Trouble (1939)
Actor
Hollywood Boulevard (1936)
as Undetermined Minor Role (uncredited)
Turn Off the Moon (1937)
as Lady (uncredited)
Private Jones (1933)
as Mrs. Winthrop (uncredited)
Beyond the Blue Horizon (1942)
as Guest at Chase's Residence (uncredited)
The Accusing Finger (1936)
Actor
Hold 'Em Navy (1937)
as Girl
Artists & Models (1937)
as Seamtress (uncredited)
Cafe Society (1939)
as Woman
Say It in French (1938)
as Bit Part (uncredited)
Can a Woman Love Twice? (1923)
as Mary Grant
The Web of Desire (1917)
as Grace Miller
The 13th Commandment (1920)
as Daphne Kip
Mardi Gras (1943)
as Mardi Gras Woman
Love Thy Neighbor (1940)
as Minor Role
Let's Fall in Love (1933)
as Star
Her Own Money (1922)
as Mildred Carr
Thrill of Youth (1932)
as Alice Fenwick
The Bar-C Mystery (1926)
as Mrs. Lane
The Crooked Circle (1932)
as Yvonne
Risky Business (1926)
as Mrs. Stoughton
The Remittance Woman (1923)
as Marie Campbell
The Sins of Rosanne (1920)
as Roseanne Ozanne
The House Next Door (1914)
as Ulrica Cotswolt
The Wolf (1914)
as Jules' Sweetheart
Yours for the Asking (1936)
as Casino Patron (uncredited)
Friend John (1913)
as Ruth Rogers - the Quaker Maid
Lightnin' (1925)
as Margaret Davis
A Lady in Love (1920)
as Barbara Martin
Exit the Vamp (1921)
as Marion Shipley
His New York Wife (1926)
as Alicia Duval
The New South (1916)
as Georgia Gwynne, as an adult
Beyond (1921)
as Avis Langley
Dollars and the Woman (1916)
as Madge Hilyer
The Lion and the Mouse (1914)
as Shirley Rossmore / Sarah Green
The Sap Takes a Wrap (1939)
as Mrs. Wallace
The Bondage of Fear (1917)
as Vesta Wheatley
Men, Women, and Money (1919)
as Marcel Middleton
Pettigrew's Girl (1919)
as Daisy Heath
The Woman Beneath (1917)
as Betty Fairchild
Hit the Deck (1929)
as Mrs. Payne
The Ladder of Lies (1920)
as Edith Parrish
Sunny Side Up (1926)
as Cissy Cason
The Princess on Broadway (1927)
as Mrs. Seymour
The Hidden Scar (1916)
as Janet Hall
Sham (1921)
as Katherine Van Riper
Pilgrim's Progress (1912)
as Elizabeth - Bunyon's Wife
More Deadly Than the Male (1919)
as Helen O'Hara
Man's Woman (1917)
as Violet Galloway
Maggie Pepper (1919)
as Maggie Pepper
The Unmarried Husband (1915)
as Nell - the Actress Wife
The Cradle (1922)
as Margaret Harvey
The Princess from Hoboken (1927)
as Mrs. O'Brien
The Witch Woman (1918)
as Marie Beaupre
The Mystery Girl (1918)
as Countess Therese
If I Were Queen (1922)
as Ruth Townley
The Tout's Remembrance (1910)
as Agnes Dudley - the Storekeeper's Daughter
The Volunteer (1917)
as Self - Cameo Appearance
Wings of Youth (1925)
as Katherine Manners
Call of the Circus (1930)
Actor
Beyond the Wall (1916)
as Helen Carlton
A City Sparrow (1920)
as Milly West
A Sporting Chance (1919)
as Carey Brent
The Great Divide (1915)
as Ruth Jordan
The Price of Possession (1921)
as Helen Carston
Young Mrs. Winthrop (1920)
as Constance Winthrop
Rich Relations (1937)
as Mrs. Blair
The Stolen Paradise (1917)
Actor
A Woman's Way (1916)
as Marion Livingston
The Sporting Duchess (1915)
as Lady Muriel Desborough
Husband and Wife (1916)
as Doris Baker
The Dormant Power (1917)
Actor
Merry Widower (1926)
as The Hunter's Wife
Crooked Streets (1920)
as Gail Ellis
For the Defense (1922)
as Anne Woodstock
Stolen Hours (1918)
as Diana Lester
His Brother's Wife (1916)
as Helen Barton
A Woman Went Forth (1915)
as Ethel Rogers
Just Maine Folks (1912)
as Ethel Walters
The Fortune Hunter (1914)
as Betty Graham
The Price Demanded (1913)
as Rose Delane
Here Comes the Bride (1915)
as Reed's Stenographer
His Soul Mate (1915)
as Nellie - the Stenographer
When the Earth Trembled (1913)
as Dora Sims
West Point Widow (1941)
as Nurse
Women's Weapons (1918)
as Anne Elliot
It All Depends (1915)
as Clara Dean