Maud Durbin (November 9, 1871 – December 25, 1936) was an American actress. She was the wife of actor

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and the mother of actress and author

Cornelia Otis Skinner Cornelia Otis Skinner (May 30, 1899 – July 9, 1979) was an American writer and actress. Biography Skinner was the only child of actor Otis Skinner and actress Maud Durbin. After attending the all-girls' Baldwin School and Bryn Mawr College ( ...

. Durbin was born in

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, on November 9, 1871. A protégé of

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, she was touring in the

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-Modjeska Dramatic Company when she met actor

, who went on to form his own dramatic company, which included Durbin, and they married in 1895. Maud Durbin was also a writer, and was the author of ''Pietro'', as well as the published short stories ''The Ne'er to Return Road'' and ''Tom's Little Star''. Durbin died in

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on December 25, 1936. She was buried at River Street Cemetery in

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, where she and her husband had a summer home.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Durbin, Maud 1871 births 1936 deaths 19th-century American actresses American stage actresses 20th-century American actresses American women writers People from Moberly, Missouri Burials in Vermont