Jennie Lee - American actress (Hollywood classical era)

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Jennie Lee

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Sunday  27, September 06:00.

Jennie Lee


ABOUT: Lee in the 1870s

Born September 4, 1848

Sacramento, California, U.S.

Died August 5, 1925 (aged 76)

Hollywood, California, U.S.

Years active 1912-1924


Introductions:


Jennie Lee, actress in 62 silent films

Mary Jane Lee (September 4, 1848 – August 5, 1925; known professionally as Jennie Lee) was an American actress of the stage and screen.

Career:

Lee appeared in more than 50 films between 1912 and 1924, working especially in character parts under the directors John Ford and D. W. Griffith. She began her stage career at age nine and went on to support such actors as John Edward McCullough, Joseph Jefferson, Edwin Booth, and Helena Modjeska.[1] She and her husband, actor William Courtright, appeared together in Griffith's Intolerance (1916). Lee portrayed Mammy in The Birth of a Nation (1915). Another notable performance of the actress occurs in Lloyd Ingraham's A Child of the Paris Streets, in which she portrays Madame Dufrane.


August 1, 1925: Actress Georgia Lee Settle was born on this date in 1925.  Settle appeared in the films Good News (1947) and The Very Thought of You (1944).


Jennie Lee 

Selected filmography:


The Mothering Heart (Griffith, 1913, Short) - The Wash Customer

The Sorrowful Shore (Griffith, 1913, Short) - On Shore (uncredited)

Two Men of the Desert (Griffith, 1913, Short) - Old Indian Woman

The Battle at Elderbush Gulch (Griffith, 1913, Short) - The Waifs' Guardian

Judith of Bethulia (Griffith, 1913) - Bethulian

The Yaqui Cur (1913) as Yaqui Woman

Almost a Wild Man (1913) as In Audience

Brute Force (Griffith, 1914, Short) - Cavewoman

The Birth of a Nation (Griffith, 1915) - Mammy - The Faithful Servant

The Slave Girl (Browning, 1915, Short)

Her Shattered Idol (1915) - Ben's Mother

A Child of the Paris Streets (1916) - Madame Dufrane

An Innocent Magdalene (Dwan, 1916) - Mammy

Pillars of Society (1916) - Nurse (uncredited)

Intolerance (1916) - Woman at Jenkins Employees Dance (uncredited)

The Little Liar (1916) - Boardinghouse Keeper


Jennie Lee 

The Children Pay (Ingraham, 1916) - Susan - the Girls' Governess

Nina, the Flower Girl (Ingraham, 1917) - Nina's grandmother

Stage Struck (Morrissey, 1917) - Mrs. Teedles

A Woman's Awakening (1917) - Mammie

Her Official Fathers (1917) - Aunt Lydia

Souls Triumphant (O'Brien, 1917)

Madame Bo-Peep (1917) - Housekeeper

The Innocent Sinner (1917) - Mother Ellis

The Clever Mrs. Carfax (1917) - Mrs. Mary Keyes

Sandy (1918) - Aunt Melvy

Riders of Vengeance (Ford, 1919) - Harry's Mother

Bill Henry (Storm, 1919) - Aunt Martha Jenkins

Rider of the Law (Ford, 1919) - Jim's Mother

The Secret Gift (1920) - Aunt Soiphie

The Big Punch (Ford, 1921) - Buck's Mother


One Man in a Million (1921) - Mrs. Koppel

North of Hudson Bay (Ford, 1923) - Mother Dane


Young Ideas (1924) - Grandma

Hearts of Oak (Ford, 1924) - Grandma Dunnivan


Jennie Lee 

*****


Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Barbara Stanwyck, Olivia de Havilland and Ingrid Bergman

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