Inez Plummer Explained

Inez Plummer (between 1884[1] and 1887[2]  - October 1964) was a Syracuse, New York native[3] and a leading lady of the Burbank, California stock company, in the second decade of the 20th century. Plummer's father managed a theater for thirty-five years. He disapproved of his daughter becoming an actress. Plummer rehearsed her firstrole in her father's theater with a stock company, without his knowledge. After finding out he was shocked but decided to let her continue.[3]

Los Angeles theatre star

She played her first stage role when she was two years old. Until mid 1906, she was content acting in ingenue roles,[4] until beginning her professional acting career. This began on August 29, 1906 as a performer in The Price of Money, and endured until March 1929. Her final show was The Octoroon, in which she played the character of Zoe.[5]

In November 1916 she appeared at the Alhambra Theater in a production of The High Cost of Living.[6] She became the leading woman of the Belasco Theatre [7] in Los Angeles, California. There she starred in The Fortune Hunter in the fall of 1916.[8]

From 1920 to 1921, she and Charles Trowbridge starred in The Broken Wing, a play written by Paul Dickey.[9]

References

  1. Web site: United States Census, 1900 . FamilySearch . 1 September 2019.
  2. Web site: United States Social Security Death Index . FamilySearch . 1 September 2019.
  3. The Stage, Munsey's Magazine, 1914, pg. 106.
  4. News: Would Rather be an Ingenue than Play Leading Roles. 4 December 2015. The Washington Times. June 3, 1906. Washington, D.C.. 27–28.
  5. http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=56309 Internet Broadway Database
  6. Where Lights And Stars Grow Bright, Los Angeles Times, November 27, 1916, pg. II8.
  7. Web site: Belasco Theatre . 2009-06-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090719180614/http://blogdowntown.com/2007/09/2854-historic-belasco-theater-awaits-its-next . 2009-07-19 . dead .
  8. They're Helping "Legit" Revival, Los Angeles Times, September 15, 1916, pg. II3.
  9. News: Do your Christmas Shopping Early for Tickets to these Broadway Successes. 4 December 2015. New York Tribune. December 5, 1920. New York, NY.

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