| May Milloy | |
| Birth Date: | January 25, 1875 |
| Birth Place: | either Dublin or Montreal |
| Death Date: | November 18, 1967 |
| Death Place: | Santa Barbara, California |
| Nationality: | American, possibly also Irish or Canadian |
| Occupation: | actress |
May Milloy (January 25, 1875 – November 18, 1967) was an American actress on Broadway, in vaudeville, and in several films.
May Milloy is usually described as Dublin-born, however some reviews mentioned Montreal as her home.[1] She had acted in Montreal by 1896, before moving to the United States.[2] Her brother Richard Milloy was also an actor and vaudeville performer,[3] and he was also described as being from Montreal.[4]
Milloy was in two Broadway shows in 1912, The Fatted Calf and The Point of View.[5] Other shows she acted in included My Geraldine (1896, in Montreal), Mr. Hopkinson (1909 tour, including Seattle and San Francisco)[6] [7] and More Sinned Against Than Usual (1912-1913),[8] [9] "a high-class travesty sketch".[10] She performed in vaudeville in an all-woman show called Beauty is Only Skin Deep (1914-1915).[11] In 1916, she was still in vaudeville, in an act with her husband, Texas actor Ford West.[12]
Milloy's advice to women, as recorded in a 1914 interview, was this: "Women should read, study, make an effort to have their mental equipment modern and useful. It can only be done by work; but if women worked as hard at their minds as they do at their complexions and their clothes, the world would be a more amusing and satisfactory place in which to live."
Milloy was cast in several films including Souls for Sale (1923),[13] Hurdy Gurdy (1929, with Thelma Todd),[14] Dad's Day (1929), and The Man from Blankley's (1930, starring Loretta Young and John Barrymore).[15]
May Milloy married Ford West in 1915, in Minnesota; he died in 1936. She died in Santa Barbara, California, in 1967, aged 92 years.