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Audrey Chapman (March 2, 1899 – August 10, 1993) was an actress in motion pictures of the
Audrey Chapman (March 2, 1899 – August 10, 1993) was an actress in motion pictures of the silent film
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era from Philadelphia
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, Pennsylvania
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.
A niece of Hampton Del Ruth
Hampton Del Ruth (September 7, 1879 – May 15, 1958) was an American film actor, director, screenwriter, and film producer. Among other work, he wrote the intertitles
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and Roy Del Ruth
Roy Del Ruth (October 18, 1893, Delaware – April 27, 1961) was an American filmmaker.
Early career
Beginning his Hollywood career as a writer for Mack Sennett in 1915, Del Ruth later directed his first short film ''Hungry Lions'' (1919) ...
, Chapman was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward a Bigley. She was educated in Philadelphia and Los Angeles, California
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. She went from a finishing school directly into movies. In ' (1920) she played the character of Mary Holmes in a photoplay
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written by Upton Sinclair
Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) was an American writer, muckraker, political activist and the 1934 Democratic Party nominee for governor of California who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in seve ...
. The setting is the "Oriental
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underworld
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...
" of New York City. Chapman dons twenty-two gowns in all, ranging from filmy negligee
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to elaborate fur-trimmed costumes.
She was among the cast of ''Wildfire'' (1921), based on a Zane Grey
Pearl Zane Grey (January 31, 1872 – October 23, 1939) was an American author and dentist. He is known for his popular adventure novels and stories associated with the Western genre in literature and the arts; he idealized the American frontie ...
novel. Two complete producing crews shot the movie, which was an outdoor narrative. The setting was the mythical Spanish
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* Spanish, Ontario, Cana ...
state of ''Chinora''. An American mining engineer is drilling for oil there. In her final movie, ''Garrison's Finish'' (1923), Chapman was paired with Jack Pickford
John Charles Smith (August 18, 1896 – January 3, 1933), known professionally as Jack Pickford, was a Canadian-American actor, film director and producer. He was the younger brother of actresses Mary and Lottie Pickford.
After their father d ...
. The story was about the race track and racing.
Between 1918 and 1923 Chapman has ten screen credits in a brief Hollywood
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* Hollywood, a metonym for the cinema of the United States
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film career. Other movies in which she acted include ''Her Country First'' (1918), '' Daddy-Long-Legs'' with Mary Pickford
Gladys Marie Smith (April 8, 1892 – May 29, 1979), known professionally as Mary Pickford, was a Canadian-American stage and screen actress and producer with a career that spanned five decades. A pioneer in the US film industry, she co-founde ...
, ''Black Sheep'' (1921), and ''Golden Dreams'' (1922).
On October 14, 1922, Chapman married banker Richard Evan Roberts in Los Angeles.
Chapman died in Riverside, California
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in 1993.
References
*Galveston Daily News, ''Gripping Pictures At Queen Theater'', August 6, 1922, Page 27. *La Crosse, Wisconsin
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Tribune, ''Garrison's Finish'', July 3, 1923, Page 8.
*Los Angeles Times
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, ''Succeeding To Fame'', May 16, 1921, Page II7.
*Los Angeles Times, ''Filming Zane Grey Story'', November 13, 1921, Page III35.
External links
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Chapman, Audrey American film actresses American silent film actresses Actresses from Philadelphia 1899 births 1993 deaths 20th-century American actresses