1. Odette Tyler's father was a Confederate general in the American Civil War.
12 Facts About Odette Tyler
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Odette Tyler's maternal uncle William J Hardee was a Confederate general.
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Odette Tyler's older brother, Hardee Kirkland, was an actor and director in silent films.
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Odette Tyler's education included time at a convent school in Georgetown and at the Loretto Convent in Guelph, Ontario.
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Odette Tyler started her New York stage career in 1884, in Sieba, a spectacle.
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Odette Tyler acted in several Shakespearean roles, including Desdemona, Juliet, and Portia, and roles in Coriolanus and King John.
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Odette Tyler appeared in one silent film, The Saphead.
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Odette Tyler wrote a play, Red Carnation, which she starred in with her second husband in 1905.
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Odette Tyler was one of the organizers of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, and of the women's wing of the Los Angeles Grand Opera Association.
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Odette Tyler chaired the city's Shakespeare Foundation, and worked toward the building of a theatre dedicated to productions of Shakespeare plays.
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In 1883, when she was age 14, Odette Tyler married Edgar P Crissman; they divorced.
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Odette Tyler died of heart attack in 1936 in Los Angeles.