Mabel Frenyear was an American actress and chorus girl.
Early life and career
Mabel Frenyear was born on August 25, 1880, the daughter of Edward L. Frenyear and Eva Tollman.
She began her career in
Broadway theatre
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, appearing in plays such as ''The Girl in the Barracks'' (1899), ''The Stronger Sex'' (1908–1909), ''The Only Law'' (1909), ''Where There's a Will'' (1910), ''You Can Never Tell'' (1915), ''
The Importance of Being Earnest
''The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People'' is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious ...
'' (1921), and ''Montmartre'' (1922). She also appeared in productions of ''
The Wizard of Oz,''
''
Babes in Toyland'', ''Father and the Boys'' (1910), ''
The 'Mind-the-Paint' Girl'' (1912),
''Nothing But the Truth'' (1916), and ''
Kissing Time
''Kissing Time'', and an earlier version titled ''The Girl Behind the Gun'', are musical comedies with music by Ivan Caryll, book and lyrics by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse, and additional lyrics by Clifford Grey. The story is based on the 19 ...
'' (1921).
Frenyear took chorus roles to prepare for her role as a chorus girl in ''The Only Law.'' A Minnesota reviewer in 1921 noted that Frenyear was "really pretty and plays her part with spirit." Her stage work was not always so admired; "If Miss Frenyear would not shriek her lines unintelligibly," commented one reviewer in 1915, "the worst defect of the production would be removed."
In addition to being a stage actress, Frenyear appeared in three silent films; ''
A Fool There Was'' (1915), a
Theda Bara
Theda Bara ( ; born Theodosia Burr Goodman; July 29, 1885 – April 7, 1955) was an American silent film and stage actress.
Bara was one of the more popular actresses of the silent era and one of cinema's early sex symbols. Her femme fatal ...
vehicle, ''Tit for Tat'' (1915), a comedy, and ''
Social Quicksands'' (1918), written by
Katharine Kavanaugh. On her first trip to make films in Los Angeles in 1914, she made headlines for criticizing local women's fashion. "Southern California is a wonderland to me, but the women in Los Angeles; oh, they dress so terribly," she declared.
Personal life
Frenyear married three times. On February 17, 1900, she married Edward F. Dunn. She only lived with Dunn for eight weeks, when he sold all her jewelry and gambled the proceeds; they divorced in 1904.
On December 22, 1904, she married Thomas R. Finucane in
Chicago, Illinois
(''City in a Garden''); I Will
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. Their marriage was almost immediately annulled because both parties admitted they were "married while intoxicated".
In 1911, she was rumored to have married her co-star,
Ralph Kellard, but both "laughed at the mere idea".
And on April 27, 1940, she married her third husband, Harry Young, in Chicago. Her date of death is unknown.
References
External links
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Three photographs of Mabel Frenyear in the Billy Rose Theatre Collection Photograph File at the New York Public Library Digital Collections.
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''A Fool There Was'' (1915), silent film featuring Mabel Frenyear, on Internet Archive.
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1880 births
Year of death missing
American film actresses
American silent film actresses
20th-century American actresses
American stage actresses
People from Brooklyn
Actresses from New York City