Lucia Moore

Lucia Moore (December 10, 1867 – April 1, 1932)[1] was an American stage and silent film actress. She appeared in plays on Broadway from 1900 through 1932; often in works written by women playwrights, such as Rachel Crothers, Anita Loos, Clare Kummer, Jean Webster, and Rida Johnson Young. She also appeared in original plays by Maxwell Anderson, Barry Conners, George Scarborough, and Edgar Selwyn.

Life and career

Born in Shreveport, Louisiana,[1] Moore made her Broadway debut as Paulina in Stanislaus Stange's Quo Vadis at the New York Theatre which opened in April 1900.[2] Later that year she appeared as Alice Palmer in Theodore Kremer's The Slaves of the Orient at the Star Theatre.[3] She did not return to Broadway again until 1910 when she starred as Mrs. Comstock in Maurice Campbell's Where There's a Will with the American Play Company at Weber's Music Hall.[4] That same year she toured nationally as Mrs. Wright in Rida Johnson Young's The Lottery Man.[5][6]

In 1911 Moore was engaged at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham where she starred opposite the British actress Winifred Delevanti in Arthur S. Gill's The Kiss of Isis.[7] In 1913 she starred in George Scarborough's Broadway play The Lure, and reprised her role in the 1914 silent film of the same name.[8] In 1914 she returned to Broadway in another play penned by Scarborough, What is love?, in the role of Mrs. Samuel Hoyt.[9]

In 1919 Moore created the role of Mrs. Smith in the original Broadway production of Rachel Crothers's 39 East;[10] a role she also performed in the 1920 silent film.[11] She created roles in several more plays written by women on Broadway, including Mrs. Wolfe in Laura Hinkley and Mabel Ferris's Another Man's Shoes (1918),[12] The Governor's Wife in Cora Dick Gantt's The Tavern (1920), Mary Vaughan in Clare Kummer's The Mountain Men (1921), and Mrs. Simmons in Anita Loos and John Emerson's The Whole Town's Talking (1923).[13] She also portrayed Miss Pritchard in the 1918 Broadway revival of Jean Webster's Daddy-Long-Legs.[14]

Moore's other film credits include Caprice of the Mountains (1916),[15] Nancy Allen in Little Miss Happiness (1916),[16] Lady Clifford in Her Double Life (1916),[17] and the Mother in The Small Town Girl (1917).[18] Her other roles in original plays on Broadway included Mrs. Springer in Edgar Selwyn's Anything Might Happen (1923), Mrs. Harrington in Barry Conners's The Patsy (1925), Mrs. Halevy in Maxwell Anderson's Saturday's Children (1927), Mrs. Weaver in J. C. and Elliott Nugent's Take My Advice (1927), Mrs. James Russell Lockhart, Sr. in Barry Conners's Girl Trouble (1928), and Mrs. Farquhar in Don Mullally and H. A. Archibald's Coastwise (1931).[19]

Moore died in New York City on April 1, 1932.[20]

References
  1. Billy H. Doyle, Anthony Slide (1995). The Ultimate Directory of the Silent Screen Performers: A Necrology of Births and Deaths and Essays on 50 Lost Players. Scarecrow Press. p. 255. ISBN 9780810829589.
  2. "Quo Vadis". The Cast. 2 (5): 23. April 23, 1900.
  3. Thomas Allston Brown (1903). A History of the New York Stage from the First Performance in 1732 to 1901, Volume 2. Dodd, Mead & Co. p. 342.
  4. W. J. Thorold, Arthur Hornblow, Perriton Maxwell, ed. (1910). "WEBER'S Where There's a Will". The Theatre Magazine Advertiser. 11: 6.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link)
  5. "Auditorium Theatrical Season Commences". Denver Municipal Facts. 2 (45): 10. November 5, 1910.
  6. "The Lottery Man". Ogden Evening Standard. August 17, 1910. p. 6.
  7. Frank Desprez, ed. (1911). The Era Annual: Dramatic and Musical, 1912. London. p. 120.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  8. Alan Goble, ed. (2011). "The Lure". The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Bowker-Saur. p. 410. ISBN 9783110951943.
  9. "A NEW SCARBOROUGH IN 'WHAT IS LOVE?'; Author of "The Lure" Gives a Comedy Full of Promise of Fine Work Ahead". The New York Times. September 21, 1914. p. 7.
  10. John Corbin (April 1, 1919). "Drama". The New York Times.
  11. Roberts, Jerry (2003). The Great American Playwrights on the Screen: A Critical Guide to Film, TV, Video, and DVD. Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 126. ISBN 1-55783-512-8.
  12. "MYSTERY COMEDY IS 'ANOTHER MAN'S SHOES'; Aphasia the Theme and Mistaken Identity the Humor of Play with Lionel Atwill Hero". The New York Times. September 13, 1918. p. 9.
  13. Gerald Bordman (1995). American theatre : a chronicle of comedy and drama, 1914-1930. Oxford University Press. p. 212. ISBN 9780195090789.
  14. "'DADDY LONG LEGS' IS BACK AGAIN; Jean Webster's Sentimental Comedy of the Foundling Home Heroine Triumphantly Revived". The New York Times. November 18, 1918. p. 13.
  15. Robert B. Connelly (1998). The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36. December Press. p. 42.
  16. Aubrey Solomon (2014). "Little Miss Happiness". The Fox Film Corporation, 1915-1935: A History and Filmography. McFarland & Company. p. 235. ISBN 9780786486106.
  17. Eve Golden (1996). Vamp: The Rise and Fall of Theda Bara. Emprise Publishing. p. 251. ISBN 9781887322003.
  18. "The Small Town Girl". Billboard. June 9, 1917. p. 65.
  19. Brooks Atkinson (December 1, 1931). "The Play: Honor in the Big Woods". The New York Times. p. 23.
  20. "Lucia Moore". Playbill. Retrieved May 29, 2023.
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