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Edna Keeley
Edna Keeley (1884–1961) was a stage actress who also appeared in an Australian silent film. Life and career Edna Keeley was born in North Dakota in April 1884. She performed on stage as a child actress with her mother Marguerite De Estes. Keeley was married to George A. Archibald on 12 July 1902 in Marin, California. Archibald died in December of the same year. Keeley continued working as an actress, and joined the Allen Doone Allen Doone (Edward Allen) (3 September 1878 – 4 May 1948) was an American tenor and comic actor who specialised in Irish romantic dramas. Doone was born in Amboy, Illinois Amboy is a city in Lee County, Illinois, United States, along the Gr ... Company which was based in Australia. In 1915 Edna starred in an Australian silent film, '' The Rebel''. She and Allen Doone returned to the United States, and at the time of his death in 1948, they were married. Keeley died on 27 January 1961 in Arizona.{{Cite news , date=30 January 1961 , titl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edna Keeley
Edna Keeley (1884–1961) was a stage actress who also appeared in an Australian silent film. Life and career Edna Keeley was born in North Dakota in April 1884. She performed on stage as a child actress with her mother Marguerite De Estes. Keeley was married to George A. Archibald on 12 July 1902 in Marin, California. Archibald died in December of the same year. Keeley continued working as an actress, and joined the Allen Doone Allen Doone (Edward Allen) (3 September 1878 – 4 May 1948) was an American tenor and comic actor who specialised in Irish romantic dramas. Doone was born in Amboy, Illinois Amboy is a city in Lee County, Illinois, United States, along the Gr ... Company which was based in Australia. In 1915 Edna starred in an Australian silent film, '' The Rebel''. She and Allen Doone returned to the United States, and at the time of his death in 1948, they were married. Keeley died on 27 January 1961 in Arizona.{{Cite news , date=30 January 1961 , titl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allen Doone
Allen Doone (Edward Allen) (3 September 1878 – 4 May 1948) was an American tenor and comic actor who specialised in Irish romantic dramas. Doone was born in Amboy, Illinois Amboy is a city in Lee County, Illinois, United States, along the Green River. The population was 2,500 at the 2010 census. The chain of Carson Pirie Scott & Co. began in Amboy when Samuel Carson opened his first dry goods store there in 1854. T ..., to Irish immigrants Kate and James Allen. From 1909 to 1938, Allen had his own theatre company in Australia. He moved back to the USA where he died. At the time of his death, he was married to actress Edna Keeley. He starred in the feature film '' The Rebel'' (1915). Select theatre credits *''The Rebel'' (1913) *''The Wearing of the Green'' (1914) *''Lucky O'Shea'' (1924) *''Sweet County Kerry'' *''Parish Priest'' *''In Old Donegal'' *''Molly Bawa'' References External links * * * 1878 births 1948 deaths American tenors 20th-century American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rebel (1915 Film)
''The Rebel'' is a 1915 Australian silent film starring Allen Doone. It is considered a lost film. Plot The Irish rebel leader Jack Blake is arrested and thrown into gaol by the vindictive Englishman Captain Armstrong. Jack's girlfriend, Eileen, helps him escape and he kills Armstrong in a duel. Jack and Eileen flee to France. Cast *Allen Doone as Jack Blake *Edna Keeley as Eileen McDermott *Frank Cullinane as Squire McDermott *Onslow Edgeworth as Captain Armstrong *Percy Kehoe as Father Kelly Production This film was based on a stage show which had been performed on stage since November 1913 by Allen Doone. Raymond Longford claimed he was meant to direct the film but that Australasian Films would not let the producers rent out their Rushcutters Bay Studio with Longford attached; he was replaced by American John Matthews.Graham Shirley and Brian Adams, ''Australian Cinema: The First Eighty Years'', Currency Press 1989 p 36 It was shot in and around Sydney over six weeks from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1884 Births
Events January–March * January 4 – The Fabian Society is founded in London. * January 5 – Gilbert and Sullivan's ''Princess Ida'' premières at the Savoy Theatre, London. * January 18 – Dr. William Price attempts to cremate his dead baby son, Iesu Grist, in Wales. Later tried and acquitted on the grounds that cremation is not contrary to English law, he is thus able to carry out the ceremony (the first in the United Kingdom in modern times) on March 14, setting a legal precedent. * February 1 – ''A New English Dictionary on historical principles, part 1'' (edited by James A. H. Murray), the first fascicle of what will become ''The Oxford English Dictionary'', is published in England. * February 5 – Derby County Football Club is founded in England. * March 13 – The siege of Khartoum, Sudan, begins (ends on January 26, 1885). * March 28 – Prince Leopold, the youngest son and the eighth child of Queen Victoria and Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1961 Deaths
Events January * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba (Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015). ** Aero Flight 311 (Koivulahti air disaster): Douglas DC-3C OH-LCC of Finnish airline Finnair, Aero crashes near Kvevlax (Koivulahti), on approach to Vaasa Airport in Finland, killing all 25 on board, due to pilot error: an investigation finds that the Captain (civil aviation), captain and First officer (civil aviation), first officer were both exhausted for lack of sleep, and had consumed excessive amounts of alcohol at the time of the crash. It remains the deadliest air disaster to occur in the country. * January 5 ** Italian sculptor Alfredo Fioravanti marches into the U.S. Consulate in Rome, and confesses that he was part of the team that forged the Etruscan terracotta warriors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ** After the 1960 Turkish coup d'état, 1960 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Stage Actresses
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
