Carmen Regina Revnes ( née Attkisson; December 23, 1896 — April 14, 1929https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1616/images/31070_171172-00691?pId=183230 ), known professionally as Sybil Carmen, was an American actress, dancer, and

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Early life

Sybil Carmen was born Carmen Regina Attkisson on December 23, 1896 in Parkersburg, West Virginia, and was raised in

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, the daughter of Russell Attkisson and Agnes Gertrude Attkisson (née Haggerty, 1875–1952)."Sybil Carmen Dies in Paris"
''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'' (April 18, 1929): 2. via

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She had two brothers, Charles and Edgar, and one sister, Dagmar. She moved to New York as a young woman to pursue a career as a dancer.

Career

Carmen appeared on Broadway in two productions by Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. She was a principal performer in the 1915 ''Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic'' as a "balloon girl", sharing the bill with The Dolly Sisters, Will Rogers, Eddie Cantor, and

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; and she returned as a principal player in the ''Ziegfeld Girls of 1920'', on a bill with Fanny Brice, W. C. Fields, and Lillian Lorraine. In 1918 she was in a similar rooftop revue show at the Century Grove. She acted in two silent films, ''A Romance of the Underworld'' (1918) and ''

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'' (1921), both of which are now lost. Romance of the Underworld 1918

Personal life

Sybil Carmen married writer and film executive Maurice Sydney Revnes on September 8, 1919; in 1926 they moved to France where he represented Pathé Studios. They had two children, a son Richard (1923–1990) and a daughter Carmen (born 1921). On April 14, 1929 at 7:30 P.M., Sybil Carmen died of pneumonia at 8 Rue Quentin-Bauchart in Paris."Sybil Carmen Dead; Former 'Follies' Actress Stricken Suddenly in Paris"
''New York Times'' (April 17, 1929): 22. She was cremated on April 20, 1929, and her ashes were scattered in New York City.

References

External links

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Publicity photographs of Sybil Carmen
in the collection of the

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