Edith Taliaferro was an American stage and film actress of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
17 Facts About Edith Taliaferro
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Edith Taliaferro was active on the stage until 1935 and had roles in three silent films.
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Edith Taliaferro is best known for portraying the role of Rebecca in the 1910 stage production of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.
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Edith Taliaferro was the younger sister of Mabel Taliaferro who became a stage actress, and the cousin of actress Bessie Barriscale.
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Edith Taliaferro's ancestors were originally from England, of remote Italian descent.
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Edith Taliaferro signed a contract for the following season to appear with Ezra Kendall.
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Edith Taliaferro was the youngest Shakesperean actress on the stage.
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Edith Taliaferro portrayed Puck in a Ben Greet production of A Midsummer Night's Dream before an audience at Princeton University in May 1904.
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Edith Taliaferro was lauded by professors there, and they sent her a Princeton University flag and pin.
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When she returned to New York, Edith Taliaferro appeared with Clara Bloodgood in The Girl with the Green Eyes.
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In 1907, Frederic Thompson produced Polly of the Circus, written by Margaret Mayo, for his new wife Mabel Taliaferro, and at times during its run, Edith took on the lead role of the youthful circus rider in her sister's place.
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Edith Taliaferro is most noted for her 1910 performance in Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.
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Edith Taliaferro made her silent film debut in Young Romance in 1915.
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Edith Taliaferro returned to Broadway in 1919 in Please Get Married followed by roles in Kissing Time, A Love Scandal, and as "Amanda Prynne" in the touring company production of Private Lives in 1931.
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Edith Taliaferro performed in London, England and in Australia with the Toronto Theatre Guild.
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Edith Taliaferro retired from stage work in the late 1930s after she lost her vision.
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On March 2,1958, Edith Taliaferro died at age 63 from undisclosed causes at her home in Newtown, Connecticut.