Ethelmary Oakland (30 July 1909 – 2 December 1999) was an American actress as a

silent film A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, when ...

child star. She was born in Indiana and started her film career at four years old. She also trained in dance with

Anna Pavlova Anna Pavlovna Pavlova ( , rus, Анна Павловна Павлова ), born Anna Matveyevna Pavlova ( rus, Анна Матвеевна Павлова; – 23 January 1931), was a Russian prima ballerina of the late 19th and the early 20th ...

. In 1915, the ''Buffalo Times'' noted her "portrayer of child screen roles is unrivaled". Her salary in 1915 ranged from $100 to $400 per week (equivalent to $ to $ per week in ). Oakland posed for a portrait by Emil Fuchs that was displayed in public exhibits and a gallery in 1916. She was featured in such

Thanhouser Film Corporation The Thanhouser Company (later the Thanhouser Film Corporation) was one of the first motion picture studios, founded in 1909 by Edwin Thanhouser, his wife Gertrude and his brother-in-law Lloyd Lonergan. It operated in New York City until 1920, ...

's films as ''The World and the Woman'' (1916) with

Jeanne Eagels Jeanne Eagels (born Eugenia Eagles; June 26, 1890 – October 3, 1929) was an American stage and film actress. A former Ziegfeld Girl, Eagels went on to greater fame on Broadway and in the emerging medium of sound films. She was posthumously no ...

; and ''Always in the Way'' (1915) with

Mary Miles Minter Mary Miles Minter (born Juliet Reilly; April 25, 1902Louisiana Birth Certificate, Caddo Parish, No. 119, Book A, Page 97, Birth Date: April 25, 1902, Name: Mary M. Reilly ic – Original Caddo birth record was recorded as "J.H. Riley's Child" ...

and

Charlotte Shelby Charlotte Shelby (born Lily Pearl Miles; December 19, 1877 – March 13, 1957) was an American actress. She was popular in Broadway theatre in her youth and was long noted as a suspect in the murder of Hollywood director William Desmond Taylor. ...

. In 1917 Oakland appeared 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 ...

in ''The Dummy'' produced by

Famous Players–Lasky Famous Players-Lasky Corporation was an American motion picture and distribution company formed on June 28, 1916, from the merger of Adolph Zukor's Famous Players Film Company—originally formed by Zukor as Famous Players in Famous Plays—and t ...

. In 1917, Oakland played the leading role in ''The Little Rebel''. Oakland left the movie industry in the late 1910s, and went on to become a librarian at

Seton Hall University Seton Hall University (SHU) is a private Catholic research university in South Orange, New Jersey. Founded in 1856 by then-Bishop James Roosevelt Bayley and named after his aunt, Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, Seton Hall is the oldest diocesan un ...

Filmography

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Always in the Way ''Always in the Way'' is a 1915 American silent drama film directed by J. Searle Dawley and starring Mary Miles Minter. The film, which was inspired by the song of the same name by Charles K. Harris, was partially filmed in the Bahamas. As with ...

'' (1915) *''Hearts of Men'' (1915) *''John Brewster's Wife'' (1916) *'' The Shine Girl'' (1916) *''

The World and the Woman ''The Woman and the World'' is a 1916 American silent drama film starring Jeanne Eagels as a prostitute who seeks a second chance in the countryside. It was based on the 1914 play ''Outcast'' starring Elsie Ferguson. It was remade in 1922 as '' Ou ...

'' (1916) *'' Divorce and the Daughter'' (1916) *''

The Dummy "The Dummy" is episode 98 of the American television anthology series ''The Twilight Zone'' starring Cliff Robertson as a ventriloquist. It is not to be confused with a similar episode "Caesar and Me", in which Jackie Cooper plays a ventriloquis ...

'' (1917)

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* 1909 births 1999 deaths American film actresses American silent film actresses American child actresses 20th-century American actresses {{US-film-actor-1900s-stub