Mildred Manning Explained

Mildred Manning was an actress who appeared in films. She had a starring role in the 1917 film adaptation of Edith Ellis' play Mary Jane's Pa.^[1] She was also cast in a starring role in Next Door to Nancy.^[1] She was cast as the heroine in The Princess of Park Row.^[1]

She performed in Broadway shows with singing and dancing roles where she was discovered by D. W. Griffith who cast her in Biograph films. She later worked with Vitagraph.^[2] She was an outdoors enthusiast who rode horses and shot rifles.^[2]

She was in the O. Henry series produced by Broadway Star Features Co.^[3] (part of Vitagraph).

Filmography

• A Chance Deception (1913) as Raffles' Woman
• A Mother's Atonement (1915) as Dorothy Hilton
• An Enemy to the King (1916) as Jeanotte
• Vanity and Some Sables (1917)^[4]
• The Last Leaf (1917)
• Love Philtre of Ikey Schoenstein (1917)
• Gold that Glittered (1917)
• The Green Door (1917)
• The Mraionettes (1917)
• Past One at Roomey's (1917)
• The Third Ingredient (1917)
• The Thing's the Play (1917)
• A Service of Love (1917)^[5]
• The Princess of Park Row (1917) as Margot^[6]
• The Marriage Speculation (1917) as Clara Wilson
• Mary Jane's Pa (1917) as Mary Jane
• The Unchastened Woman (1918)^[7] as Emily Madden
• The Westerners (1919) as Prue Welch / Molly Lafond
• Kitty Kelly, M.D. (1919) as Lola
• The Foolish Matrons (1921)
• While Paris Sleeps (1923) as model Bebe Larvache
• The Acquittal (1923) as Mrs. Crown

External links

• Findagrave entry

Notes and References

1. Web site: Nickelodeon. September 30, 1917. Google Books.
2. Web site: Motion Picture Classic. September 30, 1915. Google Books.
3. Book: Rainey, Buck. The Reel Cowboy: Essays on the Myth in Movies and Literature. September 30, 1996. McFarland. 978-0-7864-0106-2 . Google Books.
4. Web site: Dramatic Mirror of the Stage and Motion Pictures. September 30, 1917. Dramatic Mirror Company. Google Books.
5. Book: Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. September 8, 2011. Walter de Gruyter. 978-3-11-095194-3 . Google Books.
6. Book: The Rise and Fall of the Ku Klux Klan in New Jersey. Joseph G.. Bilby. Harry. Ziegler. October 25, 2011. Arcadia Publishing. 978-1-4396-6769-9 . Google Books.
7. Book: Reid, John Howard. Silent Movies & Early Sound Films on DVD: New Expanded Edition. August 1, 2011. Lulu.com. 978-0-557-43335-3 . Google Books.