Bliss Milford (1886-1970)''Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons''
page 514 by Scott Wilson c.2016 (born Bliss Phoebe MacLaren) was an American actress, screenwriter, songwriter and singer who was active in Hollywood during the silent era.

Biography

Bliss McLaren was born in

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, to attorney C. Milford MacLaren and actress Alma Gallinger. She grew up primarily in Chicago, and became interested in acting when her family relocated to New York City later on;. Her uncle,

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, was the archbishop of Chicago. When she became an actress at the age of 15 — appearing, at first, in minor roles on the stage in New York — she used her father's middle name as her last name for her film credits. She was under contract at

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until 1914, at which point she moved to

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. She joined the company of actor and playwright David Higgins in the early 1900s, alongside her mother. Higgins and Bliss eventually married, despite their nearly 30-year age gap, but their partnership did not last. Her 1915 marriage to filmmaker

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was similarly fated. She eventually married Karl Klein in 1923, a marriage that lasted until Klein's death in the 1960s. In addition to her work as an actress, screenwriter, and songwriter, she also served for a time on the board of directors of the Toledo School for Crippled Children. Little is known of her life after her film career came to an end. In addition to songwriting, she apparently sang contralto at a 1928 Washington D.C. opera recital.newspaper
accounts of Bliss Milford singing contralto at Washington D.C. recital 1928 She died July 29, 1970, in the Bronx and was cremated. Her ashes rest at

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Select filmography

* 1918 ''

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'' * 1918 ''

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'' * 1918 ''

Flower of the Dusk ''Flower of the Dusk'' is a surviving 1918 silent film directed by John H. Collins and starring his wife Viola Dana. It was produced by Maxwell Karger and distributed by Metro Pictures. The film is based on the 1908 novel by Myrtle Reed. A prin ...

'' * 1916 ''

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'' * 1915 '' The Beloved Vagabond'' * 1915 '' The Closing Net'' * 1914 '' A Question of Hats and Gowns''

References

External links

Bliss Milford
Internet Movie Database {{DEFAULTSORT:Milford, Bliss 1886 births 1970 deaths 20th-century American actresses Actresses from North Dakota