Jane Corcoran (August 13, 1881 – August 27, 1961) was an American stage actress.
Early life
Jane Eleanor Corcoran was born in San Francisco, the daughter of actress Estha (or Esta) Williams and Joseph T. Corcoran, and stepdaughter of director Arthur Clifford Aiston, who was also her manager.
She began acting as a child. She attended the Institute of Holy Angels in
Fort Lee, New Jersey
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, for her schooling.
Career
Broadway appearances by Corcoran included roles in ''A Stranger in a Strange Land'' (1899), ''All for a Girl'' (1908), ''
Mother
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'' (1910), ''A Rich Man's Son'' (1912), ''Life'' (1914), ''Drifting'' (1922), ''
Pictures from the Insects' Life, The World We Live In'' (1922), ''Kitty's Kisses'' (1926), ''
Street Scene'' (1929), ''Little Orchid Annie'' (1930), ''Little Women'' (1931), ''A Night of Barrie'' (1932), ''A Saturday Night'' (1933), ''A Party'' (1933), and ''
While Parents Sleep
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'' (1934). Other stage credits, often in touring productions, included roles in ''Tennessee's Pardner'', ''Mlle Fifi, At the Old Cross Roads'', ''Pretty Peggy,'' ''The Freedom of Suzanne,'' ''The Man of the Hour, Divorçons, A Doll's House'', and ''A Gentleman from Mississippi''.
Corcoran appeared in a short silent film, ''
Mother
]
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'' (1914), adapted from the Broadway show. She also had uncredited small parts in two later films,
Fritz Lang
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's ''
Fury'' (1936) and
John Cromwell's ''
Abe Lincoln in Illinois'' (1940).
Personal life
Corcoran married Brooklyn businessman and theatrical producer J. Emmett Baxter in 1902.
She was widowed when Baxter died in 1920. She lived with her mother and a nurse in Los Angeles in 1940. She died in Philadelphia at the Greystone Nursing Home on Aug 27, 1961, aged 80 years. She was buried at Westminster Cemetery.
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1881 births
1961 deaths
Actresses from San Francisco