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
The Major and the Minor (1942)
as Ball Guest (uncredited)
Easy Living (1937)
as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
as Customer (uncredited)
Waikiki Wedding (1937)
as Tourist (uncredited)
The Wolf (1914)
as Jules' Sweetheart
Dixie (1943)
as Woman (uncredited)
Yankee Pluck (1917)
as Polly Pollard
Mardi Gras (1943)
as Mardi Gras Woman
You and Me (1938)
as Employment Agency Clerk (uncredited)
Geronimo (1939)
Actor
Wells Fargo (1937)
as Pioneer Woman
The All-American (1932)
as Mrs. Bowen
Wealth (1921)
as Mary McLeod
If I Were King (1938)
as Old Woman (uncredited)
The Accusing Finger (1936)
Actor
Beyond the Blue Horizon (1942)
as Guest at Chase's Residence (uncredited)
The Sporting Duchess (1915)
as Lady Muriel Desborough
Secrets (1933)
as Audrey Carlton
Hollywood Boulevard (1936)
as Undetermined Minor Role (uncredited)
The Bondage of Fear (1917)
as Vesta Wheatley
His New York Wife (1926)
as Alicia Duval
King of Chinatown (1939)
as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Men with Wings (1938)
as Woman
The Remittance Woman (1923)
as Marie Campbell
The Dormant Power (1917)
Actor
The Bar-C Mystery (1926)
as Mrs. Lane
Say It in French (1938)
as Bit Part (uncredited)
Turn Off the Moon (1937)
as Lady (uncredited)
Her Own Money (1922)
as Mildred Carr
True to Life (1943)
as Woman (uncredited)
The Woman Beneath (1917)
as Betty Fairchild
The Lion and the Mouse (1914)
as Shirley Rossmore / Sarah Green
Hold 'Em Navy (1937)
as Girl
Can a Woman Love Twice? (1923)
as Mary Grant
Yours for the Asking (1936)
as Casino Patron (uncredited)
Boy Trouble (1939)
Actor
The Fortune Hunter (1914)
as Betty Graham
The 13th Commandment (1920)
as Daphne Kip
The Sins of Rosanne (1920)
as Roseanne Ozanne
New York Town (1941)
as (uncredited)
The Volunteer (1917)
as Self - Cameo Appearance
Call of the Circus (1930)
Actor
Pettigrew's Girl (1919)
as Daisy Heath
The Web of Desire (1917)
as Grace Miller
Man's Woman (1917)
as Violet Galloway
Artists & Models (1937)
as Seamtress (uncredited)
Exit the Vamp (1921)
as Marion Shipley
The House Next Door (1914)
as Ulrica Cotswolt
Love Thy Neighbor (1940)
as Minor Role
Thrill of Youth (1932)
as Alice Fenwick
Dollars and the Woman (1916)
as Madge Hilyer
The Hidden Scar (1916)
as Janet Hall
Private Jones (1933)
as Mrs. Winthrop (uncredited)
West Point Widow (1941)
as Nurse
Friend John (1913)
as Ruth Rogers - the Quaker Maid
Let's Fall in Love (1933)
as Star
The Unmarried Husband (1915)
as Nell - the Actress Wife
His Soul Mate (1915)
as Nellie - the Stenographer
Risky Business (1926)
as Mrs. Stoughton
A Sporting Chance (1919)
as Carey Brent
The Crooked Circle (1932)
as Yvonne
His Brother's Wife (1916)
as Helen Barton
The Princess from Hoboken (1927)
as Mrs. O'Brien
A Lady in Love (1920)
as Barbara Martin
Cocoanut Grove (1938)
as Undetermined Role
Exclusive (1937)
Actor
Lightnin' (1925)
as Margaret Davis
Wings of Youth (1925)
as Katherine Manners
Cafe Society (1939)
as Woman
Pilgrim's Progress (1912)
as Elizabeth - Bunyon's Wife
The Price of Possession (1921)
as Helen Carston
Sunny Side Up (1926)
as Cissy Cason
Hit the Deck (1929)
as Mrs. Payne
A City Sparrow (1920)
as Milly West
Rich Relations (1937)
as Mrs. Blair
Men, Women, and Money (1919)
as Marcel Middleton
The Witch Woman (1918)
as Marie Beaupre
The Cradle (1922)
as Margaret Harvey
Young Mrs. Winthrop (1920)
as Constance Winthrop
Maggie Pepper (1919)
as Maggie Pepper
Stolen Hours (1918)
as Diana Lester
Sham (1921)
as Katherine Van Riper
Merry Widower (1926)
as The Hunter's Wife
Beyond (1921)
as Avis Langley
A Woman's Way (1916)
as Marion Livingston
Crooked Streets (1920)
as Gail Ellis
More Deadly Than the Male (1919)
as Helen O'Hara
For the Defense (1922)
as Anne Woodstock
If I Were Queen (1922)
as Ruth Townley
The Ladder of Lies (1920)
as Edith Parrish
The Sap Takes a Wrap (1939)
as Mrs. Wallace
Women's Weapons (1918)
as Anne Elliot
The Great Divide (1915)
as Ruth Jordan
The Mystery Girl (1918)
as Countess Therese
Beyond the Wall (1916)
as Helen Carlton
Here Comes the Bride (1915)
as Reed's Stenographer
A Woman Went Forth (1915)
as Ethel Rogers
Just Maine Folks (1912)
as Ethel Walters
The Stolen Paradise (1917)
Actor
Husband and Wife (1916)
as Doris Baker
The Princess on Broadway (1927)
as Mrs. Seymour
The Tout's Remembrance (1910)
as Agnes Dudley - the Storekeeper's Daughter
When the Earth Trembled (1913)
as Dora Sims
The New South (1916)
as Georgia Gwynne, as an adult
The Price Demanded (1913)
as Rose Delane
It All Depends (1915)
as Clara Dean