Charlotte Ganahl Walker was born on December 20, 1876 in Galveston, Texas to Edwin A. Walker (1849–1889) and Charlisa (De Ganahl) Walker (1855–1934).

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Charlotte Walker - Actress
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1. Profile :

#Walker in 1902 Broadway play The Crisis

Born Charlotte Ganahl Walker, December 20, 1876 or 1878, Galveston, Texas, U.S.
Died March 23, 1958 (aged 81), Kerrville, Texas, U.S.
Resting place Old City Cemetery, Galveston County, Texas, U.S.

Occupation Actress
Years active 1900–1941

Spouse(s)
1. Dr. John Haden (2 children) (1896–1903?)
2. Eugene Walter (1908–23)

#Sara Haden

Children
2, including Sara Haden
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2. Introduction :

#Charlotte Ganahl Walker (December 20, 1876 – March 23, 1958) was a Broadway theater actress.
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3. Early life :

Charlotte Ganahl Walker was born on December 20, 1876 in Galveston, Texas to Edwin A. Walker (1849–1889) and Charlisa (De Ganahl) Walker (1855–1934).

#Walker as sketched by Marguerite Martyn, 1910
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4. Stage actress :

Walker made her stage debut as a teen in 1893. At nineteen 1895 she performed in London, England in a comedy called The Mummy and in the same year performed with Richard Mansfield. Later, she returned to her native Texas after marrying and had two children. She returned to the stage in 1901 and appeared with James A. Herne.

She was a leading lady with James K. Hackett from 1901-1905. In 1907 she appeared in the Broadway hit The Warrens of Virginia whose cast also had Gladys Smith (later Mary Pickford) and Cecil B. DeMille. She appeared as June in Trail of the Lonesome Pine, in 1911.

She would later reprise the role in Cecil B. DeMille's 1916 film Trail of the Lonesome Pine. David Belasco noticed her in On Parole. He signed her for starring roles in plays The Warrens of Virginia, Just a Wife, and Call The Doctor. Each of the Belasco productions was staged prior to World War I.

She continued to act on the Broadway stage. In 1923 she played with Ethel Barrymore in The School For Scandal. It was produced by the Player's Club.
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5. Films :

Walker's motion picture career began in 1915 with Kindling and Out of the Darkness. Sloth (1917) is a five-reeler which features Walker. In the third reel of this film she plays a youthful Dutch maid who is about sixteen years old. The setting is an old Dutch settlement on Staten Island, New York. The theme stresses the perils of indolence to a nation of people. It cautions against permitting luxury to replace the simple life led by America's forebears. In her later silent film work Walker can be seen in The Midnight Girl (1925) starring alongside a pre-Dracula Bela Lugosi. The Midnight Girl is one of Walker's few silents that survives.

As a film actress Walker continued to perform in films into the early 1930s. Her later screen performances include roles in Lightnin' (1930), Millie (1931), Salvation Nell (1931), and Hotel Variety (1933).
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6. Personal life :

Walker married her first husband, Dr. John B. Haden, on November 16, 1896 in New York City. With him she had two daughters, Beatrice Shelton Haden (born 1897) and Katherine Haden (b. 1899), who was known as the actress Sara Haden.

After her divorce, she returned to the stage. Dr. Haden died in 1930. Her second husband, Eugene Walter, was a playwright who adapted the novel The Trail of the Lonesome Pine for the Broadway stage. The second marriage also ended in divorce in 1930.

Charlotte Walker died in 1958 at a hospital in Kerrville, Texas at age 81.
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7. Filmography :

#Pardners (1917)



































7.1. Silent :

#Kindling (1915 Paramount) (survives)

#Out of the Darkness (1915) (survives)

The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1916 Paramount) (survives)
Pardners (1917) (lost)
The Seven Deadly Sins (1917 Triangle)

#Sloth(episode) (fragment; Library of Congress)














The Seventh Sin(episode) (survives; Library of Congress)
Mary Lawson's Secret (1917) (lost)
Just a Woman (1918 US Exhibitor's Booking Corp.) (lost)
Men (1918 US Exhibitor's Booking Corp.) (lost)
Every Mother's Son (1918 Fox)(lost)

#Eve in Exile (1919 Pathe) (survives; Library of Congress)

The Lone Wolf (1924 Associated Exhibitors) (lost)
The Sixth Commandment (1924 Associated Exhibitors) (lost)
Classmates (1924 First National) (lost)
The Mad Marriage (1925 Rosemary) (Lost)
The Midnight Girl (1925 Chadwick) (survives)
The Manicure Girl (1925 Paramount) (lost)
The Savage (1926 First National) (lost)
The Great Deception (1926 First National) (lost)
The Clown (1927 Columbia Pictures) (survives)
Annapolis (1928 Pathe) (survives)
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7.2. Sound :

Paris Bound (1929 Pathe) (survives)
South Sea Rose (1929 Fox) (lost)
Double Cross Roads (1930 Fox) (survives)
Three Faces East (1930 First National) (survives)
Scarlet Pages (1930 First National) (survives)
Lightnin' (1930 Fox) (survives)

Millie (1931 RKO) (survives)















Salvation Nell (1931 Tiffany) (survives)
Hotel Variety (1933 Capitol Film Exchange) (lost)
Scattergood Meets Broadway (1937 RKO) (status unknown)
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Millie (film) - 1931, Charlotte Walker Sound movie

Millie 1931 poster

Profile :

Directed by John Francis Dillon

Produced by Charles R. Rogers, Harry Joe Brown (assoc.)

Written by Charles Kenyon, Ralph Morgan

Based on the novel, Millie by Donald Henderson Clarke

Starring

Helen Twelvetrees

Charlotte Walker

Music by Arthur Lange, Nacio Herb Brown

Cinematography Ernest Haller

Edited by Fred Allen

Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures

Release date  February 6, 1931 (Premiere-New York City)

February 8, 1931 (US)

Running time 85 minutes

Country United States

Language English

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2. Introduction :

Millie (1931) is a pre-Code drama film directed by John Francis Dillon from a screenplay by Charles Kenyon and Ralph Morgan, based on a novel of the same name by Donald Henderson Clarke. The film was an independent production by Charles R. Rogers, distributed by RKO Radio Pictures, after their acquisition of Pathé Exchange. It stars Helen Twelvetrees in one of her best roles, with a supporting cast that includes Lilyan Tashman, James Hall, Joan Blondell, John Halliday and Anita Louise.

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3. Plot :

#Helen Twelvetrees (left) and Charlotte Walker in Millie

Millie (Helen Twelvetrees) is a naive young woman who marries a wealthy man from New York, Jack Maitland (James Hall). Three years later, unhappy in her marriage due to her husband's continued infidelity, she asks for and receives a divorce. Because of her pride, she does not want his money, but she also does not want to deprive her daughter of a comfortable lifestyle. She allows Jack and his mother (Charlotte Walker) to retain custody of her daughter Connie (Anita Louise).

Focusing on her career, she rises through the hierarchy of the hotel where she is employed, shunning the attention of the rich banker Jimmy Damier (John Halliday), preferring the attentions of the reporter Tommy Rock (Robert Ames), although, due to her prior sour relationship, she refuses to marry him. Eventually, Millie is promoted to the head of operations for the hotel. At the same time, Tommy is offered a lucrative position at the bank by Damier as a favor to Millie. However, at the celebration party, Millie discovers that Tommy, just like Maitland, is cheating on her.

Betrayed a second time, Millie becomes very bitter. With her female cohorts, Helen and Angie (Lilyan Tashman and Joan Blondell, respectively), she becomes a woman who loves a good time, floating from man to man. This goes on for several years, until she hears that Damier has taken an interest in her teen-age daughter, Connie, who bears a striking resemblance to her. Millie warns Damier to leave her daughter alone, but, although he promises to stay away from Connie, he ignores Millie's warning and takes Connie to a remote lodge to seduce her. Millie is tipped off, goes to the lodge with a gun, confronts Jimmy and kills him.

In the ensuing murder trial, Millie tries to keep her daughter's name out of the press and claims not to remember why she shot Jimmy. She says that another woman ran out of the lodge after the shot, but claims that she did not see who the woman was and has no idea as to her identity. The prosecution thus claims that Millie's motive was jealousy of Jimmy's romantic relationship with this unknown other woman. Millie's friends, however, help to bring out the truth, and when the jury finds out that Millie's true motive was to protect her daughter from Jimmy's lascivious intentions, they acquit her. In the end, Millie is reunited with her daughter and her estranged husband's family.

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4. Cast :

Helen Twelvetrees as Millie Blake Maitland

Lilyan Tashman as Helen Riley

Robert Ames as Tommy Rock

James Hall as Jack Maitland

John Halliday as Jimmy Damier

Joan Blondell as Angie Wickerstaff

Anita Louise as Connie Maitland

Edmund Breese as Bob O'Fallon

Frank McHugh as Johnny Holmes

Charlotte Walker as Mrs Maitland

Franklin Parker as Spring

Charles Delaney as Mike

Harry Stubbs as Mark Marks

(Cast as per AFI's database)

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5. Production :

Donald Henderson Clarke finished his novel Millie during summer 1930. The novel was first offered to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, who passed on it due to its racy content. In August of that year, it was reported that Charles R. Rogers had purchased the film rights to the novel, and had signed Charles Kenyon to adapt it into a screenplay, as well as selecting John Francis Dillon to direct. Although Rogers had signed an agreement to distribute his independent films through RKO, it was reported that he would be overseeing the production on the Universal lot. Even though he incorrectly was identified as "Ralph Murphy", Ralph Morgan was signed to collaborate with Kenyon on the screenplay adaptation in September. Less than a week later, Helen Twelvetrees signed on for the titular role; and it was reported that the screenplay adaptation had been completed. Rogers would choose Ernest Haller to shoot the film and sign him for the project in the beginning of October.

In January, RKO announced the film would be released in February, and it was released on February 8, 1931.

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6. Notes :

The film was an independent production by Charles Rogers, but became the property of RKO when Rogers agreed to become its production chief.

The theme song "Millie" had words and music by Nacio Herb Brown.

In 1959, the film entered the public domain in the United States because the claimants did not renew its copyright registration in the 28th year after publication.

The film's tagline was "Torn from Her Arms ... Child of Love a Woman Can Give but Once."

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