1. Minnie Conway Tearle was a direct descendant of William Augustus Conway Tearle, a British Shakespearean actor who became popular in America during the 1820s.
15 Facts About Conway Tearle
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Two half brothers, Godfrey and Malcolm Conway Tearle, were born from Marianne's marriage to Osmond Conway Tearle.
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Conway Tearle Levy was educated in England and America and took to the stage at an early age.
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Conway Tearle next toured Australia playing the title role in Ben Hur for some months before returning to London to star in the play The Best of Friends at the Theatre Royal.
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Conway Tearle divided the following four seasons equally with companies headed by Ellen Terry and Sir Charles Wyndham.
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In 1905 Conway Tearle returned to America to play opposite Grace George in the short-lived play Abigail.
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Conway Tearle did at times though garner singular praise for his performances in such plays as The New York Idea, The Liars, Major Barbara, and others.
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Conway Tearle turned to Hollywood in 1914 where he would find considerable success playing romantic leads.
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Conway Tearle's last was in a 1936 film adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet with John Barrymore.
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Conway Tearle appeared in some 93 films over his career and at one point was thought to be the highest-paid actor in America.
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On December 16,1931, Conway Tearle appeared with co-star Kay Francis at the grand opening of the Paramount Theater in Oakland, California, which hosted the premiere of their film The False Madonna, released by Paramount Pictures.
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Conway Tearle married for the first time in 1901 in Sunderland, England.
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In 1908 Conway Tearle filed for a divorce in Reno, Nevada on grounds of desertion, stating that his wife, Gertrude Conway Tearle, had left him several years earlier.
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One of Conway Tearle's last starring roles was in Hey Diddle Diddle, a comedy play written by Bartlett Cormack.
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Conway Tearle died in Hollywood, California, from a heart attack, on October 1,1938, aged 60.