1. Clara Blandick was delivered by Captain William H Blanchard, whose ship, Wealthy Pendleton, was anchored nearby.
18 Facts About Clara Blandick
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Clara Blandick's parents had settled in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1879 or 1880.
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Clara Blandick moved from Boston to New York City by 1900, and began pursuing acting as a career.
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In 1897, Clara Blandick was an understudy with The Walking Delegate company in Boston and her stage debut came in that production at the Tremont Theatre.
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Clara Blandick achieved acclaim for her role in The Christian.
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Clara Blandick started in pictures with the Kalem company in 1908 and made a number of appearances such as in The Maid's Double in 1911.
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Clara Blandick continued to achieve acclaim for her stage work, playing a number of starring roles, including the lead in Madame Butterfly.
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Clara Blandick continued to act on stage and occasionally in silent pictures.
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Clara Blandick would continue to act in a wide variety of roles in dozens of films.
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Clara Blandick played Mrs Morton Pringle in 1940's Anne of Windy Poplars, a department store customer in the 1941 Marx Brothers film The Big Store, a fashionable socialite in the 1944 musical Can't Help Singing, and a cold-blooded murderer in the 1947 mystery Philo Vance Returns.
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Clara Blandick retired from acting at the age of 74 and went into seclusion at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.
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Clara Blandick was married on December 7,1905, in Manhattan, to mining engineer Harry Stanton Elliott.
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Clara Blandick's eyesight began to fail and she was suffering from severe, painful arthritis.
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Clara Blandick began rearranging her room, placing her favorite photos and memorabilia in prominent places.
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Clara Blandick laid out her resume and a collection of press clippings from her lengthy career.
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Clara Blandick dressed immaculately in an elegant royal blue dressing gown, and with her hair properly styled, she took an overdose of sleeping pills.
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Clara Blandick lay down on a couch, covered herself with a gold blanket over her shoulders, and tied a plastic bag over her head.
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Clara Blandick's ashes were interred at the Great Mausoleum, Columbarium of Security at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale along with those of her sister, Marcia D Young, and Marcia's husband, George A Young.