Inez Plummer (between 1884[1] and 1887[2] – October 1964[2]) was a Syracuse, New York native[3] and a leading lady of the Burbank, California stock company, in the second decade of the 20th century.[4] Plummer's father managed a theater for thirty-five years. He disapproved of his daughter becoming an actress. Plummer rehearsed her first role in her father's theater with a stock company, without his knowledge. After finding out he was shocked but decided to let her continue.[3]
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She played her first stage role when she was two years old. Until mid 1906, she was content acting in ingenue roles,[5] until beginning her professional acting career. This began on August 29, 1906 as a performer in The Price of Money, and endured until March 1929. Her final show was The Octoroon, in which she played the character of Zoe.[6]
In November 1916 she appeared at the Alhambra Theater in a production of The High Cost of Living.[4] She became the leading woman of the Belasco Theatre [7] in Los Angeles, California. There she starred in The Fortune Hunter in the fall of 1916.[8]
From 1920 to 1921, she and Charles Trowbridge starred in The Broken Wing, a play written by Paul Dickey.[9]
References edit
- ^ "United States Census, 1900". FamilySearch. Retrieved 1 September 2019.
- ^ a b "United States Social Security Death Index". FamilySearch. Retrieved 1 September 2019.
- ^ a b The Stage, Munsey's Magazine, 1914, pg. 106.
- ^ a b Where Lights And Stars Grow Bright, Los Angeles Times, November 27, 1916, pg. II8.
- ^ "Would Rather be an Ingenue than Play Leading Roles". The Washington Times. No. June 3, 1906. Washington, D.C. pp. 27–28. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
- ^ Internet Broadway Database
- ^ "Belasco Theatre". Archived from the original on 2009-07-19. Retrieved 2009-06-22.
- ^ They're Helping "Legit" Revival, Los Angeles Times, September 15, 1916, pg. II3.
- ^ "Do your Christmas Shopping Early for Tickets to these Broadway Successes". New York Tribune. New York, NY. December 5, 1920. Retrieved 4 December 2015.