
Edythe Chapman
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From Wikipedia Edythe Chapman (October 8, 1863 - October 15, 1948), was an American stage and silent film actress from Rochester, New York. As early as 1898 she appeared in New York, New York in the Charity Ball. Edythe performed at the Shubert Theater in Brooklyn, New York in a production of The Light Eternal in 1907. Mrs. Chapman played maternal roles in numerous silent motion pictures and became known in the 1920s as Hollywood's Mother. She played Ma Jones in the film version of Lightnin' (1925), a screen production which featured Will Rogers. Edythe was Grandmother Janeway in Man Crazy (…
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Edith van Renssaleer
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Three Week Ends
1928 · Movie

Deliverance
1919 · Movie
Public Opinion
1916 · Movie

The Ten Commandments
1923 · Movie

Unexpected Places
1918 · Movie

Sandy
1918 · Movie

Up the River
1930 · Movie

The Boob
1926 · Movie

Divorce
1923 · Movie

Chastity
1923 · Movie

Alias Mike Moran
1919 · Movie

The Count of Ten
1928 · Movie