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Mabel Brownell Mabel Brownell (December 19, 1883 — January 23, 1972) was an American stage actress and director, active on Broadway in the 1920s. Early lifeMabel Brownell was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1883 (one source gives 1888).[1][2] She graduated from Hughes High School in 1902.[3] She also studied music and elocution.[4] CareerMabel Brownell made her debut in 1903,[5] when she also made her first visit to the American West, in Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush by Ian Maclaren.[6] Brownell appeared in a lead role in a revival of Ben-Hur on Broadway in 1907.[7] She was also lead actress of the Mabel Brownell-Clifford Stork Company, a theatre company based in Newark, New Jersey.[8] In 1909 she starred in William Vaughn Moody's The Great Divide in London.[9] She acted into the 1920s, often outside of New York City.[10][11][12] She was known to do extensive research into her roles. In 1917 she spent six weeks living in a boarding house in McKeesport, Pennsylvania to play a laborer's wife in a steel town in Eugene Walter's Just a Woman.[13] In 1927, she directed Immoral Isabella; the following year, she directed two plays on Broadway: Mrs. Dane's Defense and Within the Law, both featuring a similar cast, with Violet Heming, Stanley Logan, Robert Warwick, and Julia Hoyt among the actors appearing in both. As a star of the stage version of Ben-Hur in 1907, she was invited to the premiere of the film version in 1959.[14] Personal lifeMabel Brownell was married to businessman Louis Vincent Aronson in 1935, as his second wife.[15] She was widowed in 1940,[16] and she died in 1972, aged 88 years, in New York City.[17] References
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