Barbara Castleton Explained

Barbara Castleton
Birth Date:September 14, 1894
Birth Place:Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
Death Place:Boca Raton, Florida, United States
Occupation:Actress
Years Active:1914–1923

Barbara Castleton (September 14, 1894 – December 23, 1978) was an American silent film actress. Castleton appeared in motion pictures from 1914 through 1923, accumulating 28 screen credits.

Career

Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, Castleton was one of the lower echelon stars who made films for Samuel Goldwyn Studio, along with Cullen Landis, James Kirkwood, and Rowland Lee. The company's major stars were Madge Kennedy, Geraldine Farrar, Will Rogers, and Tom Moore. Her first performance as a film actress came in The Ordeal (1914). She had the lead in Branding Iron (1920), a film directed by Reginald Barker.

Personal life and death

Her first husband was George W. Zimmerman, an attorney from Vancouver, British Columbia. Castleton won a divorce suit from Zimmerman in October 1921 in Reno, Nevada. She contended that he gambled and lived beyond his income. The decree was granted on grounds of cruelty.

Castleton was a collector of furniture. In March 1923, she purchased a pair of early 17th century blue velvet armchairs with Van Dyke fringe and a 17th century octagonal walnut center table with an elaborately carved base. The pieces were purchased at the Dabissi sale of fine old furniture held at the American Art Galleries in New York City.

Castleton died in Boca Raton, Florida in 1978.

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
1914The OrdealAlternative title: The Mothers of Liberty
1916A Daughter of the Gods
1917For the Freedom of the WorldBetty Milburn
Her Good NameAgnes Gurnee
God's Man Bertie
On TrialMrs. Robert Strickland
ParentageAgnes Melton
Sins of AmbitionRuth Maxwell
1918Empty PocketsMuriel Schuyler
VengeanceLady Elsie Drillingcourt
The Heart of a GirlBetty Lansing
HeredityNedda Trevor, as an adultAlternative title: The Blood of the Trevors
Just SylviaSylvia
1919Peg o' My HeartEthel Chicester
What Love Forgives
The Silver King
The Rough NeckFrancesAlternative title: The Roughneck
The Man Who Turned White
Dangerous HoursMay Weston
1920Dangerous DaysAudrey Valentine
Out of the StormMargaret Hill
The Branding IronJoan Carver
1921The Child Thou Gavest MeNorma Huntley
1922False FrontsHelen Baxter
What's Wrong with the Women?Janet Lee
The Streets of New YorkLucy Bloodgood
My Friend the DevilAnna Ryder
1923The NetAllayne Norman

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