Ramona Langley Explained

Ramona Langley
Birth Date:	July 9, 1893
Birth Place:	Los Angeles, California, US
Death Place:	Los Angeles, California, US
Occupation:	Actress
Spouse:	Clarence English (m. 1913; div. 1938) Clare Woolwine (m. 1938–his death)

Ramona Langley (July 9, 1893 – November 11, 1983) was an American film actress who was active in Hollywood during the silent era. She was known primarily for her work in comedies for Universal and Nestor.^{[1] [2] [3]}

Biography

A native of Los Angeles, Ramona was born in 1893 to John Langley and Mary Niles.^[4] She would later tell reporters she was named after Helen Hunt Jackson's novel Ramona.

In 1913, the same year she began appearing in one-reel films for the Nestor Comedy Company, she married industrialist Clarence English, and the pair relocated to a large ranch near Chihuahua, Mexico. Less than a year later, the pair evacuated their home and returned to Hollywood as a result of the Mexican Border War.

Ramona was severely injured in 1914 on the set of the Universal Pictures film, She Was Only a Working Girl, after she and her male co-stars fell on a slippery concrete floor. Crushed under the weight of the men, Ramona suffered major internal injuries and was reportedly urged by director Al Christie to continue the shoot.^[5] Despite lingering injuries that kept her in a sanatorium bed for months, the studio refused to compensate her for her suffering, and she was replaced in the finished film by Victoria Forde.^[6]

After her recovery, she retired from filmmaking and focused on raising her three children. Eventually, in 1938, she and English separated.^[7] That same year, Langley married her second husband, politician Clare Woolwine, in Lake Tahoe.^[8] Woolwine died a year later after suffering a heart attack.^[9]

Ramona died on November 11, 1983, in Los Angeles.

Select filmography

• Scooped by a Hencoop (1914)
• His Royal Pants (1914)
• Twixt Love and Flour (1914)
• When Billy Proposed (1914)
• Snobbery (1914)
• Cupid's Close Shave (1914)
• When Ursus Threw the Bull (1914)
• And the Villain Still Pursued Her (1914)
• A Tale of the West (1914)
• Teaching Dad a Lesson (1913)
• A Woman's Way (1913)
• Her Friend, the Butler (1913)
• Locked Out at Twelve (1913)
• When He Lost to Win (1913)
• An Elephant on His Hands (1913)
• The Golden Princess Mine (1913)
• Love, Luck and a Paint Brush (1913)
• His Wife's Burglar (1913)
• Western Hearts (1913)
• Curses! Said the Villain (1913)
• A Man of the People (1913)
• What the Wild Waves Did (1913)
• Under Western Skies (1913)
• Their Two Kids (1913)
• His Crazy Job (1913)
• The Battle of Bull Con (1913)
• The Girl Ranchers (1913)
• Won by a Skirt (1913)
• The Trail of the Serpent (1913)
• Cupid's Bad Aim (1913)
• Weighed in the Balance (1913)
• Some Runner (1913)
• Hawkeye to the Rescue (1913)
• The Pretender (1913)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Price. Gertrude M.. 24 Jan 1914. Refugee from Mexico Becomes "Movie" Star!. 2021-12-31. The Sacramento Star. en.
2. Book: Birchard, Robert S.. Early Universal City. 2009. Arcadia Publishing. 978-0-7385-7023-5. en.
3. Book: Grau, Robert. The Theatre of Science: A Volume of Progress and Achievement in the Motion Picture Industry. 1914. Broadway publishing Company. en.
4. Web site: 17 May 1913. The Unknown Touches the Heart. 2021-12-31. The Capital Journal. en.
5. Web site: 7 May 1914. Motion Picture Actors Undergo Great Dangers. 2021-12-31. Marysville Evening Democrat. en.
6. Web site: 7 Feb 1914. In Nestor Film. 2021-12-31. The Marion Star. en.
7. Web site: 13 Aug 1938. Industrialist's Wife Granted Divorce in Reno. 2021-12-31. The Los Angeles Times. en.
8. Web site: 12 Aug 1938. Lake Tahoe Rites Set Today. 2021-12-31. The Los Angeles Times. en.
9. Web site: 27 Oct 1939. Former Nashville Resident Dies. 2021-12-31. Nashville Banner. en.