11 Facts About Clara Morris

Actress Clara Morris was born in Toronto, the eldest child of a bigamous marriage.

At the Cleveland Academy of Music, Morris worked under the management of John A Ellsler.

Clara Morris then appeared in Halifax, Nova Scotia for a summer, and with Joseph Jefferson in Louisville, before going to New York City in 1870.

Clara Morris left Daly in 1873 and in November of that year starred under AM Palmer's management in The Wicked World at the Union Square Theatre.

Clara Morris toured extensively, especially in the 1880s, and everywhere mesmerized audiences with her emotional power.

Clara Morris included that the person who was intended to introduce her onstage had missed their train and couldn't attend the performance.

Clara Morris married Frederick C Harriott on November 30,1874; Morris supported Harriott until he started acting with her, in 1892.

Clara Morris died in New Canaan, Connecticut, on November 20,1925, of a heart attack.

The Clara Morris School, located at 1900 St Clair Avenue NE, was part of the Cleveland Metropolitan School District until the building was torn down in 1968.

Clara Morris is a great artist, in my sense of the word, because all she does, all she says, in the matter of the doing and of the saying constantly evoke the imagination to supplement it.

Clara Morris was "perhaps the world's first method actor," notes author Morris.