Charlotte Ives Boissevain (November 27, 1886Some sources give Charlotte Ives's year of birth as 1891 or 1897; 1886 is the year given on her petition for American citizenship dated April 11, 1940, via Ancestry. November 27, 1886 is the same birthdate as Charlotte Danziger's Massachusetts birth record, also via Ancestry. – September 1976), born Charlotte Danziger, was an American actress who appeared on Broadway and in

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Early life

Charlotte "Lottie" Danziger was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the daughter of Charles Danziger and Leah Cohen Danziger. Her mother was born in Hungary; she died in 1904. The_Man_of_Mystery_(1917,_advertisement)

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Career

Danziger acted using her original name in 1909, as the protegee of

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; but she soon began to use the name "Charlotte Ives", and this was the name she used personally and professionally thereafter. Film credits for Ives included roles in several silent pictures: ''

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'' (1914), '' The Dictator'' (1915), '' A Prince in a Pawnshop'' (1916), '' The Man of Mystery'' (1917), ''The Warfare of the Flesh'' (1917), ''Prince Cosimo'' (1919), and ''

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'' (1919). On stage, she appeared in Broadway and touring productions including ''The Upstart'' (1910), ''The Turning Point'' (1910), ''As a Man Thinks'' (1911), ''Passers-by'' (1912), ''Liberty Hall'' (1913), ''

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'' (1914), ''A Scrap of Paper'' (1914), ''The High Cost of Loving'' (1914), ''The Brat'' (1917), ''What's Your Husband Doing?'' (1917), ''The Man Who Stayed Home'' (1918), and ''She Had to Know'' (1925).

Personal life

Ives was engaged to marry opera singer

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in 1912, and married Dutch-born importer Jan M. Boissevain in 1921. Her brother-in-law, Eugen Boissevain, was married first to suffragist

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, and later to poet

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. She became a Dutch citizen upon marriage, but petitioned for the restoration of her US citizenship in 1940, under the provisions of the

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of 1922. Charlotte Ives Boissevain lived in

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in her later years, and was close to fellow American actress

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there. She had two sisters, Helen I. Maltby and Augusta Hartley. Her husband died in 1964, and she died in 1976, aged 90 years, in France.

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A photograph of Charlotte Ives
made by Carl Van Vechten in 1943, in the New York Public Library Digital Collections * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ives, Charlotte 1886 births 1976 deaths 20th-century American actresses American stage actresses American silent film actresses American expatriate actors in France Actresses from Boston