Helen Marguerite Clark was an American stage and silent film actress.
18 Facts About Marguerite Clark
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Marguerite Clark had an older sister, Cora, and an older brother named Clifton.
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Marguerite Clark's father worked in his self-owned successful haberdashery located in downtown Cincinnati before his death on December 29,1896.
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Marguerite Clark finished school at age 16, decided to pursue a career in the theatre and soon made her Broadway debut in 1900.
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In 1909, Marguerite Clark starred in the whimsical costume play The Beauty Spot, establishing the fantasy stories which would soon become her hallmark.
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In 1910, Marguerite Clark appeared in The Wishing Ring, a play directed by Cecil DeMille which was later made into a motion picture by Maurice Tourneur.
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That same 1910 season had Clark appearing in Baby Mine, a popular play produced by William A Brady.
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In 1912, Marguerite Clark performed in a lead role with John Barrymore, Doris Keane and Gail Kane in the play The Affairs of Anatol, later made into a motion picture by Marguerite Clark's future movie studio Famous Players-Lasky and directed by Cecil DeMille.
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Marguerite Clark expressed her delight in the role, and the play had a successful run into 1913.
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Marguerite Clark's popularity led to her signing a contract in 1914 to make motion pictures with Adolph Zukor's Famous Players Film Company, and over the next two years she was cast in starring roles in more than a dozen features.
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At age 31, it was relatively late in life for a film actress to begin a career with starring roles, but the diminutive Marguerite Clark had a little-girl look, like Mary Pickford, that belied her years.
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Feature films were unheard of when Marguerite Clark was in her early 20s.
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Marguerite Clark made her first appearance on screen in the short film Wildflower, directed by Allan Dwan.
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In 1915, Marguerite Clark starred as "Gretchen" in a feature-length production of The Goose Girl based on a 1909 best-selling novel by Harold MacGrath.
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Marguerite Clark performed in the feature-length production The Seven Sisters, directed by Sidney Olcott, and she reprised a Broadway role, starring in the first feature-length film version of Snow White.
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Marguerite Clark starred in Come Out of the Kitchen, which was filmed in Pass Christian, Mississippi, at Ossian Hall.
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Marguerite Clark made all but one of her 40 films with Famous Players-Lasky, her last with them in 1920 titled Easy to Get, in which she starred opposite silent film actor Harrison Ford.
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Marguerite Clark was cremated and buried with her husband in Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans.