Isabelle Evesson (c. 1870 – 1914) was an American actress.
Early life
Isabelle Evesson was born in
New York City
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, the daughter of Henry Evesson Jr. and Florine Augusta Bassford Evesson.
Her sister
Estelle Clayton was also an actress, as well as a playwright; she wrote ''A Puritan Romance'' as a vehicle for her sister and herself. In 1907, the sisters formed the Bassford Estate Corporation, hoping to recover compensation for some of their grandfather's extensive land holdings in the New York City area. "So, with the walls of their handsome apartment covered with old maps," explained a newspaper reporter in 1907, "these two Evesson sisters, year in and year out, are making their fight for untold millions."
Career
Isabelle Evesson was performing on stage from her teens, often in touring companies and in Boston and Chicago. She spent two years acting in London. "Every act and gesture is finished," noted a Los Angeles newspaper of Evesson's performance in 1905, "and her voice is sweet and well modulated." Evesson's Broadway credits included roles in ''Mr. Barnes of New York'' (1888), ''Papa's Wife'' (1899-1900), ''Anna Karenina'' (1905), and ''The Charm of Isabel'' (1914). She was in the original 1887 cast of
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Life and career
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'' at the
Boston Museum.
Evesson appeared in two silent films, ''A Mother's Atonement'' (1914), and ''The Girl and the Bachelor'' (1915). She was a charter member of the
Professional Woman's League at their organizational meeting in 1892.
Personal life
Isabelle Evesson married journalist Almyr Wilder Cooper in 1895; the Mayor of New York performed the civil ceremony in his office. Cooper died suddenly in 1896, from injuries sustained in an assault. Isabel Evesson died in 1914, at home in
Stamford, Connecticut
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, in her forties.
["Isabelle Evesson Dead" ''New York Times'' (August 10, 1914): 7. via ]ProQuest
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References
External links
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Images of Isabelle Evesson in the Billy Rose Theatre Collection Photograph File New York Public Library
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The Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic NewsSaturday August 9, 1884
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1870s births
1914 deaths
Actresses from New York City
19th-century American actresses