Josephine Crowell is a Actor Canadienne born on 10 january 1859 at Nova Scotia (Canada)
Josephine Crowell
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Birth name Josephine Bonaparte CrowellNationality CanadaBirth 10 january 1859 at Nova Scotia (
Canada)
Death 27 july 1932 (at 73 years) at Amityville (
USA)
Josephine Crowell (January 11, 1859 – July 27, 1932) was a Nova Scotian film actress of the silent film era. She appeared in 94 films between 1912 and 1929.
She was born Josephine Boneparte Crowell in Nova Scotia, British North America and began her film acting career in the 1912 film The School Teacher and the Waif. By 1919 she had appeared in 50 films, many of which were film shorts. Her most notable film appearance during that period was in the early film classic The Birth of a Nation, starring Lillian Gish and directed by D. W. Griffith. In 1920 she appeared with Gladys Brockwell in Flames of the Flesh, which was followed by another six film appearances that year. From 1921 until 1929 she had 34 more film appearances, including Hot Water in which she played Harold Lloyd's mother in law and The Splendid Crime starring Bebe Daniels in 1925.
Her last role was in the 1929 film Wrong Again, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. With the coming of "talking films", her career abruptly ended. She had married actor Emile La Croix earlier in her career, and was residing in Amityville, New York at the time of her death on July 27, 1932, at the age of 73. Biography
Installée aux États-Unis, Josephine Crowell débute au théâtre et joue notamment à Broadway (New York) dans une pièce représentée en 1902.
Au cinéma, elle contribue à quatre-vingt-quinze films muets américains (dont des courts métrages), le premier sorti en 1911. Entre autres, elle apparaît dans dix films réalisés par D. W. Griffith, dont Naissance d'une nation (1915), Intolérance (1916) et Cœurs du monde (1918), tous trois avec Lillian Gish. Dans Intolérance, elle personnifie Catherine de Médicis, rôle qu'elle retrouvera à l'occasion d’Ashes of Vengeance de Frank Lloyd (1923, avec Norma Talmadge et Conway Tearle).
Citons également Pillars of Society de Raoul Walsh (1916, avec Henry B. Walthall et Mary Alden), La Veuve joyeuse d'Erich von Stroheim (version de 1925, avec Mae Murray et John Gilbert), ou encore L'Homme qui rit de Paul Leni (son dernier long métrage, 1928, avec Mary Philbin et Conrad Veidt). Son dernier film est le court métrage Y a erreur ! de Leo McCarey, avec Laurel et Hardy, sorti en 1929.
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