1. Elise Bartlett was born into a rich and aristocratic family.
16 Facts About Elise Bartlett
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Elise Bartlett was educated at a convent in Paris and returned to the United States in May 1914.
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Elise Bartlett had always wanted to perform on stage since she was a baby.
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Elise Bartlett used the first two parts of her name for her stage name, dropping her surname of Porter.
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Elise Bartlett appeared alongside Leo Carrillo in a production of The Bad Man, changing her gown several times as she did not feel her choices matched the mood she wanted to convey.
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Elise Bartlett lived in California for six years before moving to New York and appeared in 13 plays, such as Pagan Lady.
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Elise Bartlett was featured in the film Show Boat, as well as stage productions So To Bed, Lilliom and Children of the Moon to name a few.
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Elise Bartlett was described as a well educated "blue grass beauty" and was born into a rich and aristocratic family.
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Elise Bartlett's father, M Madison Russell Porter, was a member of the East India Company and would often travel around the world in his capacity as a phosphate manufacturer.
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Elise Bartlett's mother was Ella B Porter and maternal grandmother was Ella S Bartlett.
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Elise Bartlett first met Joseph Schildkraut in his dressing room when she approached him to audition for the part of Solveig in one of his plays.
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Elise Bartlett was born in Romania to a Romanian father Rudolph Schildkraut, a distinguished actor and a Hungarian mother, although had Turkish and Spanish ancestry.
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Elise Bartlett was ultimately awarded a divorce on June 9,1930, in an agreement reached out of court, in which Schildkraut would have to pay his wife a $250 weekly alimony and divide $20,000 worth of "community property".
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In December 1931, Elise Bartlett announced her engagement to producer and publisher Horace Liveright, having known each other for eight years.
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Elise Bartlett had known Picard for ten years and said she "simply adores" him.
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Elise Bartlett died suddenly at a local hospital in Daytona Beach on May 23,1947 from alcoholism.