Catherine Calvert (born Catherine Cassidy; April 20, 1890 – January 18, 1971) was an American actress.
Biography
The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cassidy,[1] Catherine Calvert was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland.[2]
She made her stage debut in the play Brown of Harvard in September 1908, in Albany, New York.[2] On Broadway, she portrayed Doris Moore in The Deep Purple (1911),[3][4] May Joyce in The Escape (1913), and Dona Sol in Blood and Sand (1921).[5]
After many years' experience onstage in productions including The Deep Purple (a play by her future husband, Paul Armstrong), in 1910, she entered films via Keeney Pictures Corporation in A Romance of the Underworld (1918; based on a play in which she had appeared onstage).[6]
Other films in which she appeared include Marriage, Out of the Night, Career of Katherine Bush, Marriage for Convenience, and Fires of Faith. Around 1920, she was a star of Vitagraph Studios.[6]
Calvert married Armstrong in New Haven in 1913.[7] They remained wed until his death in 1915.[1] She later married Canadian grain exporter George A. Carruthers, who died in 1952.[8]
^ abHines, Dixie; Hanaford, Harry Prescott, eds. (1914). "Calvert, Catherine (Catherine Calvert Cassidy)". Who's Who in Music and Drama. New York: H. P. Hanaford, p. 60.
^"New Play Of Crooks Seen At The Lyric". The New York Times. New York, New York. January 10, 1911. p. 4 – via NYTimes.com.
^Darnton, Charles (January 11, 1911). "The New Plays". The Evening World. New York, New York. p. 19 – via Newspapers.com.
^"Catherine Calvert". Internet Broadway Database. The Broadway League. Archived from the original on August 9, 2020. Retrieved August 9, 2020.
^ abFox, Charles Donald; Silver, Milton L., eds. (1920). "Catherine Calvert". Who's Who on the Screen. New York: Ross Publishing. p. 272.
