Catherine Calvert

American actress

Paul Armstrong

(m. 1913; died 1915)

George A. Carruthers

(m. 1925; died 1952)

Children1

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]

In 1971, Calvert died in Uniondale, New York, at age 80.^[8]

Filmography

Partners (1916) (*short)
House of Cards (1917)
The Peddler (1917))
Think It Over (1917)
Behind the Mask (1917)
Outcast (1917)
The Uphill Path (1918)
A Romance of the Underworld (1918)
Out of the Night (1918)
Marriage (1918)
Marriage For Convenience (1919)
Fires of Faith (1919)
The Career of Katherine Bush (1919)
Dead Men Tell No Tales (1920)
The Heart of Maryland (1921)
You Find It Everywhere (1921)
Moral Fibre (1921)
The Green Caravan (1922)
That Woman (1922)
The Indian Love Lyrics (1923)
Out to Win (1923)

References

^ ^a ^b "Paul Armstrong Dead". The Baltimore Sun. Maryland, Baltimore. August 31, 1915. p. 1. Retrieved August 9, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
^ ^a ^b Hines, 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.
^ ^a ^b Fox, Charles Donald; Silver, Milton L., eds. (1920). "Catherine Calvert". Who's Who on the Screen. New York: Ross Publishing. p. 272.
^ "Wife for Paul Armstrong". The Kansas City Star. Missouri, Kansas City. December 20, 1913. p. 2. Retrieved August 9, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
^ ^a ^b "Miss Calvert, Actress, at 80". The Philadelphia Inquirer. January 20, 1971. p. 54. Retrieved August 9, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.