Alice Calhoun
Alice Calhoun | |
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| Born | November 21, 1900 Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. |
| Died | June 3, 1966 (aged 65) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Film actress |
| Years active | 1918–1934 |
| Spouse(s) | Mendel B. Silverburg (1926) Max Chotiner (1926–1938) |
Alice Beatrice Calhoun (November 21, 1900 – June 3, 1966) was an American silent film actress.
Film star
[edit]Born in Cleveland, Ohio, she made her film debut in an uncredited role in 1918 and went on to appear in another forty-seven films between then and 1929. As a star with Vitagraph in New York City, she moved with the company when it relocated to Hollywood.[1] In the comedy, The Man Next Door (1923), Calhoun plays Bonnie Bell. A critic complimented her on being pretty and playing her role successfully.[2] The Man From Brodney's (1923) is a movie which displays the fencing talent of actor J. Warren Kerrigan. Directed by David Smith for Vitagraph, the film is based on a novel by George Barr McCutcheon. Calhoun plays Princess Genevra.[3] Between Friends (1924) is a motion picture adapted from a story by Robert W. Chambers. Anna Q. Nilsson and Norman Kerry are part of a cast in which Calhoun plays an artist's model.[4] Among her other movies titles are Pampered Youth (1925), The Power of the Weak (1926), Savage Passions (1927), and Bride of the Desert (1929).
Like a number of other stars at the time, her voice did not lend itself to sound and her one performance in a talkie came in an uncredited role in 1934.
Marriages
[edit]Her first husband was Mendel Silberberg, a Los Angeles, California attorney. They were married in May 1926 and he filed a divorce petition in July. Silberberg charged that Calhoun was engaged to another man at the time of their wedding. Their marriage was annulled.[1]
In 1925 Calhoun had invested in a movie theater. With her second husband Max Chotiner, whom she married secretly in Ventura, California[5] on December 28, 1926, she became owner of a chain of theatres in the Los Angeles area. Highly successful, Calhoun and her husband were benefactors of a number of local charities. Chotiner later became an investment broker.[1] They divorced in 1938.[6]
Death
[edit]Calhoun died in Los Angeles in 1966 of cancer, aged 65.[1] She is interred with her husband in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.[citation needed]
For her contributions to the film industry, Calhoun was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame with a motion pictures star located at 6815 Hollywood Boulevard.[7][8]
Filmography
[edit]- Everybody's Business (1919)
- Deadline at Eleven (1920)
- Captain Swift (1920)
- Human Collateral (1920)
- The Sea Rider (1920)
- Princess Jones (1921)
- The Matrimonial Web (1921)
- The Charming Deceiver (1921)
- Closed Doors (1921)
- Rainbow (1921)
- Peggy Puts It Over (1921)
- The Angel of Crooked Street (1922)
- The Girl in His Room (1922)
- A Girl's Desire (1922)
- The Little Minister (1922)
- Little Wildcat (1922)
- The Man from Brodney's (1923)
- The Man Next Door (1923)
- The Midnight Alarm (1923)
- Masters of Men (1923)
- Pioneer Trails (1923)
- One Stolen Night (1923)
- Between Friends (1924)
- Flowing Gold (1924)
- Code of the Wilderness (1924)
- The Happy Warrior (1925)
- The Everlasting Whisper (1925)
- The Part Time Wife (1925)
- The Other Woman's Story (1925)
- Pampered Youth (1925)
- The Man on the Box (1925)
- A Hero of the Big Snows (1926)
- Flying High (1926)
- Tentacles of the North (1926)
- The Trunk Mystery (1926)
- The Power of the Weak (1926)
- Kentucky Handicap (1926)
- The Down Grade (1927)
- Hidden Aces (1927)
- The Isle of Forgotten Women (1927)
- The Flag (1927)
- In the First Degree (1927)
- Bride of the Desert (1929)
- Now I'll Tell (1934)
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "Alice Calhoun Chotiner, 65, Starred In Silent Movies," The New York Times, June 6, 1966, Page 41.
- ^ "The Screen," The New York Times, May 29, 1923, Page 10.
- ^ "Notes of the Film," The New York Times, September 16, 1923, Page X4.
- ^ "The Screen," The New York Times, May 12, 1924, Page 14.
- ^ "Alice Calhoun Reweds," The New York Times, January 5, 1927, Page 18.
- ^ "Silent Screen Star Divorced," Los Angeles Times, June 17, 1938, Section II, Page 2.
- ^ "Hollywood Walk of Fame - Alice Calhoun". walkoffame.com. Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. Archived from the original on December 1, 2017. Retrieved February 1, 2018.
- ^ "Los Angeles Times - Hollywood Star Walk". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved February 1, 2018.
External links
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- Alice Calhoun at IMDb
- Alice Calhoun at AllMovie
- Alice Calhoun at Find a Grave
- "Alice Calhoun". Stars of the Photoplay. Chicago: Photoplay. 1924.
- Wing, Ruth (1923). "Alice Calhoun". The Blue Book of the Screen. Hollywood, California. Archived from the original on 2011-09-26. Retrieved 2010-01-18.
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