Edna Mayo

Edna Mayo

Born: March 22, 1895
Died: May 5, 1970
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Leading lady of the silent screen, on stage from 1906 and prominent in films with Essanay between 1914 and 1918. She was tagged as "the best-dressed film actress" with numerous publicity stills in McClure's, McCall's, Ladies World, and Pictorial Review.

Movies for Edna Mayo...

The Chaperon
Title: The Chaperon
Character: Madge Hemingway
Released: November 20, 1916
Type: Movie
Jim Ogden, secretly engaged to Madge Hemmingway, wealthy heiress, becomes sensitive over his lack of money and breaks the engagement. In a moment of pique she marries Count Van Tuyle. After six months she returns from Europe, minus her husband. Trying to forget her error, she goes to the country.
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The Return of Eve
Title: The Return of Eve
Character: Eve
Released: October 16, 1916
Type: Movie
Believing that over-civilization was destroying the race, Eli Tapper, an eccentric millionaire, took two unrelated orphan children, a boy and a girl, and placed them in a wilderness, there in the care of an old tutor, David Winters, to grow up as a new Adam and Eve, and become path-breakers of a better race.
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The Strange Case of Mary Page
Title: The Strange Case of Mary Page
Character: Mary Page
Released: January 24, 1916
Type: Movie
A 15-episode movie serial.
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The Misleading Lady
Title: The Misleading Lady
Character: Helen Steele
Released: January 3, 1916
Type: Movie
Helen Steele, who has theatrical aspirations, has been told by Sidney Parker that, owing to her lack of stage experience he cannot entertain her proposition of giving her the leading part in his new production, "The Siren." Believing that she can get Parker to consent if she is persuasive enough, Helen has her fiancé, Henry Tracey, invite the theatrical manager to the party to be given by John W. Cannell so that she may work upon him. At the affair Helen manages to obtain Parker's consent to give her a trial it she is successful in having Jack Craigen, a friend of Cannell, who has been living in Patagonia for a long time and who is a woman hater, propose to her.
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The Blindness of Virtue
Title: The Blindness of Virtue
Character: Effie Pemberton
Released: July 19, 1915
Type: Movie
The Hon. Archibald Graham is expelled from college and his indignant father sends him to a little English village to study under the Rev. Harry Pemberton. Misunderstood by his father, he has grown up somewhat reckless and dissipated. All this is changed under the tutelage of the minister and he enters into the spirit of his studies with zeal.
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The Greater Courage
Title: The Greater Courage
Character: Peggy Lorraine
Released: June 12, 1915
Type: Movie
Gilbert and Lawrence Carthage are in love with Peggy Lorraine. George Duncan, a wealthy and unscrupulous bachelor, insults Peggy in Gilbert's presence. Being timid and retiring, he does nothing.
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Frauds
Title: Frauds
Character: Zelda
Released: May 1, 1915
Type: Movie
Zelda Dunbar, a detective, on the trail of two notorious blackmailers, offers herself as their accomplice and is accepted by Eldridge and Mortimer. Zelda wins the heart of Kendrick, a rich bachelor. Zelda slips Kendrick a note saying her father is going to force her to marry a man she does not love. Kendrick takes the girl into another state.
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Graustark
Title: Graustark
Character: Countess Dagmar
Released: April 16, 1915
Type: Movie
While traveling by train from Denver to Washington, DC, wealthy young Grenfall Lorry meets a beautiful young girl. When they are accidentally left behind in a mining town, they race through the mountains and finally catch it. They travel to Washington and have a great time, but they soon part. They meet again later in the small European country of Graustark, where Grenfall and his friend Harry rescue her from kidnappers, and they then discover that she is actually the country's Princess Yetiva. She is engaged to Prinze Lorenz of Asphan in order to pay off Graustark's enormous debt from the war, but Lorenz is murdered and Grenfall is framed for the crime. Complications ensue.
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The Key to Yesterday
Title: The Key to Yesterday
Character: Duska Filson
Released: October 12, 1914
Type: Movie
George Carter, a revolutionist in South America, is the exact double of Frederick Marston, a famous artist in Paris. Carter is betrayed by a comrade and is sentenced to be shot. He takes a desperate chance and escapes on board a vessel bound for London. In Paris Marston is stabbed by a model because he does not return her love. The wound incapacitates him from painting, and leaves an ugly scar, and he goes to America on a vacation. Highwaymen attack him, inflicting injuries which cause a total loss of memory. The robbers leave nothing in his pockets but the key to his Paris studio, and Marston adopts the name of Robert Anglo-Saxon.