1. Henrietta Foster Crosman was an American stage and film actress.
13 Facts About Henrietta Crosman
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Henrietta Crosman's grandfather was a Civil War General, George H Crosman.
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Henrietta Crosman was born the year the Civil War started and moved all over the US from post to post with her army father, and so was educated in many places.
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When she was 16, Henrietta Crosman spent a year in Paris studying music with thoughts of singing grand opera.
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Henrietta Crosman got her start in 1883 at the old Windsor Theatre, New York with the assistance of the long-time theatre manager John A Ellsler.
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Henrietta Crosman later toured the country with Robert L Downing in classic parts.
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In 1899, Henrietta Crosman was hired as the Leading Lady for the summer season at the Elitch Theatre in Denver, Colorado.
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Campbell's 1905 version of the Ibsen play When We Dead Awaken, starring Henrietta Crosman, was the first and only production.
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Now in her forties, Henrietta Crosman was starting to move away from the strenuous sword-carrying, heavy costume adventures that she was popular in.
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Henrietta Crosman gave a heartbreaking performance in a rare lead film role in Pilgrimage as the embittered mother of a soldier killed in World War I who travels to the Argonne and undergoes a spiritual renewal.
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Henrietta Crosman and Crosman joined the nascent silent film industry; he was a noted film director in the 1920s.
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Henrietta Crosman survived her husband by two years, dying in 1944, aged 83.
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Biographical information for Henrietta Crosman is archived in the University of Pittsburgh.