Genevieve Hamper (September 8, 1888 – February 13, 1971) was an American stage and screen actress.
Hamper began performing Shakespeare as a teenager. She often appeared in early
silent films
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, whe ...
and on stage with her much older first husband
Robert B. Mantell
Robert Bruce Mantell (7 February 1854 – 27 June 1928) was a noted Shakespearean stage actor who made several silent films. His mother was Elizabeth Bruce Mantell who objected to her son becoming an actor so he used the name Robert Hudson earl ...
. They headed the Robert Mantell-Genevieve Hamper Shakespearean Repertoire Company, and they had a son, Robert B. Mantell Jr. After Mantell's death, in October 1928 she married actor John Alexander, and she retired from the stage. He died in 1982.
Hamper worked for the
Fox Film Corporation
The Fox Film Corporation (also known as Fox Studios) was an American Independent film production studio formed by William Fox (1879–1952) in 1915, by combining his earlier Greater New York Film Rental Company and Box Office Attractions Film ...
, including portraying Claire in '' The Green-Eyed Monster'' (1916).
In 1929, Hamper directed her own Shakespearean company that presented plays in venues including the Metropolitan Theater in Minneapolis. She rehearsed actors at Woodcrest, her country estate in
Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey
Atlantic Highlands is a borough in Monmouth County, New Jersey, in the Bayshore Region. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough's population was 4,385, She felt that the calmer approach would be favored by audiences that had become accustomed to films.
Hamper died at the Sanger Nursing Home in New York City in 1971, aged 82.
Selected filmography
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The Blindness of Devotion
''The Blindness of Devotion'' is a lost 1915 silent film drama directed by J. Gordon Edwards and starring Robert B. Mantell and Genevieve Hamper. It was produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation.
Cast
*Robert B. Mantell - Count de Carnay
* ...
A Wife's Sacrifice
''A Wife's Sacrifice'' is a lost film, lost 1916 American silent drama film directed by J. Gordon Edwards (director), J. Gordon Edwards and produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation.
Cast
See also
*List of Fox Film films
*1937 Fox vault ...