Danforth Marble (April 27, 1810 – May 13, 1849) was an American comedic actor who gained great popularity playing "Yankee" roles in the 1830s and 1840s.
Dan Marble was famous for his portrayal of the character "Sam Patch",[1] the famous daredevil jumper. He developed the role starting in 1836, and first played Sam Patch at the Eighth Street Theatre in Buffalo, New York, where Patch's successful jump at nearby Niagara Falls in 1829 had made him a local legend.[2] Marble went on to star in a number of "Sam Patch" plays throughout the United States. In his role as Sam Patch he would leap forty feet over a simulated Niagara Falls into a mock raging river.[3] In 1845, he went to England, where he performed on the Strand as the classic Yankee 'Deuteronomy Dutiful'.[4][5] He returned to America in 1845.
Marble married Anna Warren (1815–1872) of Philadelphia, an actress and daughter of actor William Warren (1767-1832), on November 13, 1836.[8] Their son Edward Marble was an actor and songwriter.[1][9] Their daughter, Mary Marble, married the actor Samuel Meyers in Chicago in 1855, and acted for many years at McVicker's Theater in that city.[10][11]
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^Drake, Francis Samuel, ed. (1872). "Marble, Danforth". Dictionary of American Biography, Including Men of the Time. p. 596.
^Flanagan, John T. (1963). "The Folk Hero in Modern American Drama". Modern Drama. 6 (4): 402–416. doi:10.1353/mdr.1963.0030.
^Berg, Albert Ellery (1884). The drama, painting, poetry, and song. New York: P. F. Collier. p. 292. OCLC1160365247.
^Kelly, Jonathan Falconbridge (1851). Dan. Marble : a biographical sketch of that famous and diverting humorist ; with reminiscences, comicalities, anecdotes. New York: Dewitt & Davenport. OCLC191320928.
^Scharnhorst, Gary (2008). Kate Field: The Many Lives of a Nineteenth-century American Journalist. Writing American Women. New York: Syracuse University Press. p. 8. ISBN978-0-8156-0874-5.
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