May Milloy

May Milloy (January 25, 1875 – November 18, 1967) was an American actress on Broadway, in vaudeville, and in several films.

May Milloy
May Milloy, from a 1914 publication.
May Milloy, from a 1914 publication.
BornJanuary 25, 1875
either Dublin or Montreal
DiedNovember 18, 1967
Santa Barbara, California
NationalityAmerican, possibly also Irish or Canadian
Occupationactress

Early life

May Milloy is usually described as Dublin-born, however some reviews mentioned Montreal as her home.[1] She had acted in Montreal by 1896, before moving to the United States.[2] Her brother Richard Milloy was also an actor and vaudeville performer,[3] and he was also described as being from Montreal.[4]

Career

Milloy was in two Broadway shows in 1912, The Fatted Calf and The Point of View.[5] Other shows she acted in included My Geraldine (1896, in Montreal),[2] Mr. Hopkinson (1909 tour, including Seattle and San Francisco)[6][7] and More Sinned Against Than Usual (1912-1913),[8][9] "a high-class travesty sketch".[10] She performed in vaudeville in an all-woman show called Beauty is Only Skin Deep (1914-1915).[11] In 1916, she was still in vaudeville, in an act with her husband, Texas actor Ford West.[12]

Milloy's advice to women, as recorded in a 1914 interview, was this: "Women should read, study, make an effort to have their mental equipment modern and useful. It can only be done by work; but if women worked as hard at their minds as they do at their complexions and their clothes, the world would be a more amusing and satisfactory place in which to live."[11]

Milloy was cast in several films including Souls for Sale (1923),[13] Hurdy Gurdy (1929, with Thelma Todd),[14] Dad's Day (1929), and The Man from Blankley's (1930, starring Loretta Young and John Barrymore).[15]

Personal life

May Milloy married Ford West in 1915, in Minnesota; he died in 1936. She died in Santa Barbara, California, in 1967, aged 92 years.

References
  1. "About this Week's Orpheum Players". Calgary Herald. 30 May 1914. p. 12. Retrieved 1 May 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. "Music and Drama". The Gazette. 13 October 1896. p. 3. Retrieved 1 May 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. "Orpheum's Attractive Programme". The Vancouver Sun. 11 June 1914. p. 3. Retrieved 1 May 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. "Vaudeville Bills at Two Theatres". The Gazette. 24 June 1916. p. 3. Retrieved 1 May 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. Hines, Dixie; Hanaford, Harry Prescott (1914). Who's who in Music and Drama. H.P. Hanaford. pp. 432, 451. May Milloy.
  6. "Mr. Hopkinson Again". New York Dramatic Mirror. 62: 13. 16 October 1909.
  7. "A scene from "Mr. Hopkinson"". digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
  8. Thorold, W. J.; Hornblow, Jr., Arthur; Maxwell, Perriton; Beach, Stewart (August 1912). "San Francisco's Theatrical Rehabilitation". Theatre Magazine. 16: 53.
  9. "The Cautious Comedienne". The Green Book Magazine. 11: 850. May 1914.
  10. "Footlight Flashes". The Philadelphia Inquirer. 25 January 1914. p. 50. Retrieved 1 May 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. "Beauty is Only Skin Deep; Little May Milloy Talks of What Woman Owes Herself". The Brooklyn Citizen. 18 January 1914. p. 8. Retrieved 1 May 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. "Vaudeville Notes". Chicago Examiner. 1 October 1916. p. 47. Retrieved 1 May 2019 – via NewspaperArchive.com.
  13. "Souls for Sale". Photoplay Magazine. 24: 112. June 1923.
  14. Bradley, Edwin M. (14 June 2015). The First Hollywood Sound Shorts, 1926-1931. McFarland. p. 319. ISBN 9781476606842.
  15. Bernardine, Sue (18 May 1930). "Barrymore Comedy Opens at Ritz Today". The San Bernardino County Sun. p. 7. Retrieved 1 May 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
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