Selene Johnson Explained
| Selene Johnson |
| Birth Name: | Selene Knapp Johnson |
| Birth Date: | February 20, 1876 |
| Birth Place: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupation: | Actress |
| Spouse: | Lumsden Hare |
Selene Knapp Johnson (February 20, 1876 – December 11, 1960) was an American stage and silent film actress.
Johnson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania but lived in Jersey City, New Jersey, later. In the mid-1890s she graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.[1]
While Johnson was a student in the academy, she obtained the leading female role in The Girl I Left Behind Me.[2] Another of her early performances was in The Great Diamond Robbery. Stock theater companies with which she worked included Acazar in San Francisco, Columbia Theatre in Washington, D. C., and Salisbury in Milwaukee.
Johnson performed in silent cinema, includingThe Divine Sacrifice (1918).[3] [4]
Johnson was married to Lumsden Hare,[5] and she died in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Plays
- The Golden Age as Margaret Barnes (1928)
- The Title as Mrs. Culver (1921)
- Peter's Mother (1918)
- Ourselves (1913)
- The Return from Jerusalem (1912)
- The Dollar Mark (1909)
- Disengaged (1909)
- Irene Wycherley (1908)
- The Squaw Man (1905-1906)
- Abigail (1905)
- The Man of Destiny / How He Lied to Her Husband as herself (1904)
- Audrey (1902-1903)
- Frou-Frou (1902)
- Monte Cristo as Mercedes (1900-1901)
- A Rich Man's Son (1899)
- Peter Stuyvesant (1899)
References
- Book: Briscoe . Johnson . The Actors' Birthday Book: 2d Series. An Authoritative Insight Into the Lives of the Men and Women of the Stage Born Between January First and December Thirty-first . 1908 . Moffat, Yard . 58 . April 1, 2021 . en.
- News: 'Never time to stop wor,' says Selene Johnson . October 4, 2021 . Buffalo Evening News . December 5, 1910 . 22. Newspapers.com.
- Daniel C. Blum, John A. Willis, Daniel Blum's Theatre World, Volume 21- Crown Publishers, 1964; pg. 257;
- University of Michigan, The Green Book Magazine, Volumen 8- Story-Press association, 1912; pg. 516;
- News: Lumsden Hare dies; long an actor, 90 . October 23, 2020 . The New York Times . United Press International . September 1, 1964 . 36. . ProQuest.
