Jessalyn Van Trump (January 16, 1887 – May 2, 1939) was an American

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 ...

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. Van Trump was born in St. Johns, Ohio, but later moved to Hollywood and began acting at age 24. She appeared in over eighty silent films between 1911 and 1928. In the early 1910s, she often appeared opposite Pauline Bush. She died in Hollywood in 1939, at age 52.

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* Actresses from Ohio American silent film actresses People from Auglaize County, Ohio 1887 births 1939 deaths 20th-century American actresses {{US-film-actor-1880s-stub