Monroe Salisbury appeared on the stage for several years and then became an early film star.
17 Facts About Monroe Salisbury
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Monroe Salisbury began his acting career on the stage in 1898, appearing in numerous romantic leads.
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Monroe Salisbury was in more than 40 silent movies between 1914 and 1922, working frequently with director Cecil B DeMille.
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Monroe Salisbury's mother had a younger brother named Orange James Salisbury.
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Monroe Salisbury had an elder brother named Monroe Salisbury, a government contractor and well-known turfman who bred racehorses.
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Monroe Salisbury appeared behind the footlights with such notables as Richard Mansfield, Eleonora Duse, John Drew, Nance O'Neil, Minnie Maddern Fiske, and Kathryn Kidder.
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Monroe Salisbury worked for DeMille in such movies as Brewster's Millions, The Master Mind, The Virginian, and Rose of the Rancho, which were all released in 1914.
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Monroe Salisbury appeared alongside Douglas Fairbanks in The Lamb and Double Trouble.
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Monroe Salisbury scored his greatest success when he starred as Alessandro in Ramona opposite Adda Gleason in the title role.
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Monroe Salisbury then signed with Universal Studios, where he was among the top movie stars for several years.
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Monroe Salisbury formed his own production company, that same year, and produced and starred in The Barbarian.
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Monroe Salisbury's final starring role was in the drama Great Alone, in which he played a half-Native American college student and football player, a character presumably half his age.
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Monroe Salisbury appeared in a Christie comedy short, Her Husband's Woman.
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On July 2,1935, Monroe Salisbury entered Patton State Hospital, a mental facility near San Bernardino, as a patient.
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Monroe Salisbury died at age 59 from a fractured skull sustained in his fall at the institution.
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Monroe Salisbury was at a local mortuary for a day before his true identity was discovered.
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Monroe Salisbury's body was returned to Los Angeles, for cremation and his ashes interred with his mother in the family plot at Rosedale Cemetery.