14 Facts About Ivy Troutman

Ivy Troutman was an American supporting actress active during the first half of the twentieth century.

Ivy Troutman acted in at least twenty-one Broadway productions between 1902 and 1945, appearing in such long-running plays as A Pair of Sixes, Baby Mine and The Late George Apley.

Ivy Troutman was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, the middle of three daughters raised by John J Troutman and Lyda H West.

Ivy Troutman's father, a native of New York, was a carpenter by trade.

Ivy Troutman's mother, who was born in New Jersey, died at the age of thirty-three just a few days past Troutman's ninth birthday.

Ivy Troutman made her professional stage debt at Wallack's Theatre on April 14,1902, playing a minor role in the Leo Ditrichstein drama, The Last Appeal.

At the Herald Square Theatre in March 1903, Ivy Troutman played Annie Bellamy to the Peg Woffington of Grace George in Frances Aymar Mathews's biographical drama, Pretty Peggy.

Ivy Troutman subsequently left the cast of Pretty Peggy to play leading roles with Amelia Bingham's touring company before joining Boston's Castle Square Theatre the following season as a stock player.

At the Empire Theatre on March 2,1908, Ivy Troutman played Frances Berkeley in Ade's comedy-drama, Father and the Boys and the following year toured in Augustus Thomas' The Witching Hour.

Ivy Troutman played Mrs Nettleton in A Pair of Sixes, a hit comedy at the Longacre Theatre by Edward Peple that, from March and into September 1914, ran for two hundred and seven performances.

On November 29,1915, Ivy Troutman opened at Broadway's Gaiety Theatre as Lillian Wakeley in Avery Hopwood's Sadie Love, a farce-comedy that closed at the Harris Theatre on February 19,1916, after a combined run of eighty productions.

In 1940 Ivy Troutman played Lady Weston in a successful revival of Edward Chodorov's Kind Lady.

Ivy Troutman's only known motion picture was The House with Nobody in It, a three-reel mystery with romance, revenge and intrigue produced in 1915 by the Gaumont Film Company.

Ivy Troutman died at her residence in Tinton Falls, New Jersey, aged 94.