Alma Hanlon

Alma Hanlon
Born(1890-04-30)April 30, 1890
New Jersey, US
DiedOctober 26, 1977(1977-10-26) (aged 87)
Monterey, California, US
Years active1915–1919
Spouse(s)Walter J. Kingsley (1905–1917)
Louis Myll (1918–?)
ChildrenDorothy Kingsley

Alma Hanlon (April 30, 1890 – October 26, 1977) was an American silent film actress. Hanlon's film career was short, lasting only four years. She appeared in twenty-three films. Her first film role was as Dorothy Dare in The Fixer (1915) and her last was in The Profiteer (1919).

Early years

She was born on April 30, 1890, in New Jersey, the youngest[citation needed] daughter of George Hanlon.[1] Her mother, Helena Reynolds Hanlon, was the leading lady at the Gaiety Theatre in London. Two of her brothers formed the Hanlon Brothers pantomime team, one was an actor in London, and one was a stage director and producer.[2]

Career

In 1915 Hanlon was under contract to George Kleine and making films that the Kleine-Edison picture company released.[1] Her film debut came in Keleine's The Fixer.[3]

Personal life and death

Her first husband was former correspondent and theatrical press agent Walter J. Kingsley, from 1905[4] until their divorce in 1917, with whom she had one child, Dorothy Kingsley.[5]

In 1918 she married director Louis Myll, when she had been living at Bayside, Queens for the last two years.[5] She later moved with her daughter to the affluent suburb of Grosse Pointe, Michigan,[6] and retired.[7]

She died on October 26, 1977, in Monterey, California.[citation needed]

Partial filmography

References

  1. ^ a b "Member of Noted Theatrical Family". Detroit Free Press. November 4, 1915. p. 6. Retrieved November 5, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ "Another Hanlon of ninth generation follows family love for stage life". The Washington Post. District of Columbia, Washington. June 14, 1915. p. 4. Retrieved November 5, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Alma Hanlon in Special Kleine Drama". The Moving Picture World. November 20, 1915. p. 1480. Retrieved November 5, 2024.
  4. ^ "Shower of Roses on Bride. Miss Alma Hanlon Becomes Mrs. Kingsley in a Rain of Blossoms". New York Times. November 27, 1905. p. 9.
  5. ^ a b "Alma Hanlon, Actress, Marries Again". New York Times. September 28, 1918. p. 11.
  6. ^ Mel Gussow (October 3, 1997). "Dorothy Kingsley, 87, Writer Of 1950's MGM Screenplays". New York Times. Dorothy Kingsley, a leading screenwriter in Hollywood in the 1940s and '50s, died on September 26 at the Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula, in Monterey, Calif. She was 87 and lived in Carmel.
  7. ^ McGilligan, Patrick (1991). Backstory 2: Interviews with Screenwriters of the 1940s and 1950s. University of California Press. p. 117. ISBN 978-0-520-20908-4. Retrieved November 5, 2024.
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