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Jane Grey (actress)
Jane Grey (born Mamie Larock; May 22, 1882 – November 9, 1944[citation needed]) was an American stage and screen actress of the silent era.[1][2] Early lifeBorn in Vermont in 1882, Mamie (later Jane Grey) was the fifth child of seven children of Louisa May and Joseph Larock.[1] The federal census of 1900 documents that her father, a native of Canada, was a "common day laborer" and that her Vermont-born mother washed other people's clothes to earn extra money to support the large family.[1] Stage and filmGrey started her Broadway career around 1911 and was the original female lead with John Barrymore in the popular 1914 stage play Kick In written by Willard Mack .[3] Grey, who began appearing in films around 1913, was in Hassard Short's All-Star Shakespearean pageant for Actor's Equity in 1921, and she was also cast in a few French productions for Louis Feuillade in the early 1920s.[4] In 1911, and again in 1914, Grey was a member of the Summer Stock cast at Elitch Theatre in Denver, Colorado. "The leading woman was Jane Grey. Miss Grey was an Anglo-Australian actress whom Charles Frohman brought to the United States and who had just completed a ten-month run in the New York engagement of David Belasco's play, The Concert."[5] Personal life and deathGrey was married twice, to Ricardo Martin and then to William E. Tyrrel.[6][7] Filmography
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