Mary Philbin
Mary Philbin (* July 16, 1903 in Chicago, Illinois; † May 7, 1993 in Huntington Beach, California ) was an American silent film actress.
Life
Mary Philbin comes from a strict Catholic, Irish-American middle-class family. She had her film debut in 1921. The following year, she was among the " WAMPAS Baby Stars", a Werbekampagnie the movie industry, the young actresses distinguished on the threshold of movie star.
Your first big success came then with the lead role in fairground drama Merry- Go-Round as a film subsidiary of Cesare Gravina. In the second half of the 1920s she became a regular starring actress. Among her best known today representations include the role of Christine Daaé opera singer in The Phantom of the Opera ( 1925) with Lon Chaney.
In 1927, she starred opposite of Ivan Mosschuchin in Edward Sloman's Surrender. Your following two roles in the theater milieu with Conrad Veidt, The Last Performance of Fejös Pál (Paul Fejos ) and The Man Who Laughs by Paul Leni, are considered her most successful work. In 1928 she came under DW Griffith, whose fame had already fallen on in Drums of Love. 1929 advent of the talkies ended her career.
She was engaged to Paul Kohner, a studio boss of Universal, but her conservative parents, under whose influence it was time their life, were against a marriage with the Czech Jews. Philbin remained unmarried and occurred after the end of her acting career only rarely in public. She died aged 89 from pneumonia.