Inez Plummer

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]

American Actress Inez Plummer
Inez Plummer and Myrtle Tannehill in a scene from The Broken Wing (1921).

Los Angeles theatre star

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
  1. "United States Census, 1900". FamilySearch. Retrieved 1 September 2019.
  2. "United States Social Security Death Index". FamilySearch. Retrieved 1 September 2019.
  3. The Stage, Munsey's Magazine, 1914, pg. 106.
  4. Where Lights And Stars Grow Bright, Los Angeles Times, November 27, 1916, pg. II8.
  5. "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.
  6. Internet Broadway Database
  7. "Belasco Theatre". Archived from the original on 2009-07-19. Retrieved 2009-06-22.
  8. They're Helping "Legit" Revival, Los Angeles Times, September 15, 1916, pg. II3.
  9. "Do your Christmas Shopping Early for Tickets to these Broadway Successes". New York Tribune. New York, NY. December 5, 1920. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
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