Stella Muir (12 September 1900 – 3 June 1984), known as the English Mary Pickford was an early twentieth-century English film actress.
Life
Born Edith Alice May Muir on 12 September 1900, in
Scarborough Scarborough or Scarboro may refer to:
People
* Scarborough (surname)
* Earl of Scarbrough
Places Australia
* Scarborough, Western Australia, suburb of Perth
* Scarborough, New South Wales, suburb of Wollongong
* Scarborough, Queensland, sub ...
, Yorkshire, she worked as factory girl in a clothing manufacturers in the York Street area of
Leeds
Leeds () is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds district in West Yorkshire, England. It is built around the River Aire and is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines. It is also the third-largest settlement (by populati ...
. Muir had a short film career working in
silent movies, initially in crowd work. She was credited in three films in 1919, a series of twelve shorts in 1920 and three more short films in 1922.
Muir died on 3 June 1984 in
Marlow, Buckinghamshire.
Filmography
*
The Heart of a Rose (1920) as Rose Fairlie
(advertisement), ''The Kinematograph and Lantern Weekly'' (15 September 1919): 27.
* A Lass o' the Looms (1919)
* The Call of the Sea (1919)
* Film Pie No.s 1-12 (1920)
* The Old Actor’s Story (1922) as Nell
* The Magic Wand(1922)
* The Lights O' London (1922)
References
External links
*
English silent film actresses
20th-century English actresses
1900 births
1984 deaths
20th-century English people
Actresses from Scarborough, North Yorkshire
Actresses from Leeds
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