*SCANDALOUS ACTRESS LESLIE CARTER CHARLES A STEVENSON 14 X 10 1904 ADREA PHOTO*

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Like Lillie Langtry, she was a beautiful society woman who, after personal controversy, went on the stage and became quite a good actress. She was tutored under David Belasco, acted opposite Maurice Barrymore in The Heart of Maryland in 1895, and went on to a distinguished career. A rare original 1904 thirteen and a half by nine and a half inch silver print photograph of Mrs. Leslie Carter and Charles A. Stevenson in Adrea.  Light wear and small loss to one corner otherwise good. See Mrs. Leslie Carter's extraordinary biography below.
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From Wikipedia:
Caroline Louise Dudley (June 10, 1857[1]- November 13, 1937) was an American silent film and stage actress who used her married name, Mrs. Leslie Carter, as her stage name to spite her former husband. She was called "The American Sarah Bernhardt".
Caroline Dudley was born in Lexington, Kentucky. The exact date is not known but research points more accurately to the year 1857.[2] Her father was Orson Dudley, a wholesale dry goods merchant of means, who gave to his daughter every advantage that money could bestow. Her mother was Catherine Dudley. Most of her childhood was spent in Dayton, Ohio. She aspired to the stage from childhood, but for family reasons she never appeared publicly, even at amateur entertainments.
Early life
At the time of her 1880 marriage in Dayton to lawyer Leslie Carter, a Chicago millionaire, she was considered a great belle, as she was a strikingly beautiful girl with great vivacity. They had one child, a son, Dudley Carter. In 1887 she filed for divorce on the grounds of physical assault and abandonment, but in 1889, Mr. Carter obtained the divorce naming actor, H. Kyrle Bellew, as correspondent. Son Dudley chose to live with his mother and was cut out of his father's will as a result. Press coverage of the trial was suppressed, but the filing and results were front page scandal.
Career
Her association with Broadway impresario, David Belasco, skyrocketed her to theatrical fame. Her first hit was as the lead character in The Heart of Maryland (1895), a huge hit that was followed by the even more sensational Zaza (1898) and Madame Du Barry (1901). In The Heart of Maryland, she wore a wig with six-foot tresses. Her great scene came as the heroine swinging in the belfry tower, her hands gripping the clapper to prevent the ringing of a huge curfew bell. The sensational swinging out of Mrs. Carter thirty-five feet above the stage with off-stage fans sending her long tresses streaming set New York audiences cheering.
Carter became her generation's greatest dramatic actress. When she broke with Belasco in 1906 after her surprise remarriage, she was already considered a relic and abandoned Broadway in favor of vaudeville. In July 1906, she married actor (William) Louis Payne (1875-August 17, 1955) who was often her leading man on stage, and later managed her business affairs. They adopted a daughter, Mary Carter Payne.
In 1915, pioneer producer George Kleine hired her to recreate Madame Du Barry for the motion picture cameras. She was already in her fifties and too old for the part, but it was nevertheless followed by a screen version of her first success, the civil war melodrama The Heart of Maryland. Neither film was a success. Her last stage hit was as a decayed coquette, in Somerset Maugham's drawing-room comedy, The Circle, in 1921.
Returning to vaudeville, Carter's career collapsed in 1926 when she was fired during a Newark, New Jersey, tryout of The Shanghai Gesture, in which she had been cast as Mother Goddam. As she owned a half-interest in the show, which went on to be a Broadway success, she received half the royalties. She appeared in the road version of the show after its New York run.
Later years
She retired to California but returned to the screen twice in 1935, first as George F. Marion's wife in the Zane Grey western The Rocky Mountain Mystery (aka The Fighting Westerner) and also playing a small role in the Technicolor film Becky Sharp, starring Miriam Hopkins.
She died in 1937 at Santa Monica, California of heart disease. She is buried in Woodland Cemetery, Dayton, Ohio in the family plot with her second husband, her son Dudley, and several other Dudley and Payne family members.
Carter's ascendancy in the theatrical world was fictionalized and sensationalized, in The Lady With Red Hair (1940). Kay Francis and Bette Davis in turn had been slated for the role, but it was Miriam Hopkins who portrayed her. Claude Rains portrayed David Belasco. Second husband Louis Payne was a technical adviser on the film. Louis Payne died in 1955 at the Motion Picture Country Home.
Ghost
Apparently after her death she stayed around the Theater Republic, where she got her start. Now The New Victory Theater, staff and visiting companies say they are visited by the ghost of Mrs. Leslie Carter when trouble arises backstage.
Edward G. Robinson
(born
Emanuel Goldenberg
;
Yiddish
:
ײמאַנועל גאָלדענבערג
‎; December 12, 1893 – January 26, 1973) was an American actor of stage and screen during
Hollywood's Golden Age
. He appeared in 40 Broadway plays and more than 100 films during a 50-year career
[1]
and is best remembered for his tough-guy roles as gangsters in such films as
Little Caesar
and
Key Largo
.
During the 1930s and 1940s, he was an outspoken public critic of
fascism
and
Nazism
, which were growing in strength in Europe leading up to
World War II
. His activism included contributing over 0,000 to more than 850 organizations involved in war relief, along with cultural, educational and religious groups. During the 1950s, he was called to testify at the
House Un-American Activities Committee
during the
Red Scare
, but was cleared of any
Communist
involvement.
Robinson's roles included an
insurance investigator
in the
film noir
Double Indemnity
,
Dathan
(adversary of
Moses
) in
The Ten Commandments
, and his final performance in the
science-fiction
story
Soylent Green
.
[2]
Robinson received an Honorary
Academy Award
for his work in the film industry, which was awarded two months after he died in 1973. He is ranked number 24 in the
American Film Institute
's list of the 25
greatest male stars of Classic American cinema
.
Robinson was born as Emanuel Goldenberg to a
Yiddish
-speaking
Romanian-Jewish
family in Bucharest, the son of Sarah (née Guttman) and Morris Goldenberg, a builder.
[3]
After one of his brothers was attacked by an
anti-semitic
mob, the family decided to
immigrate
to the United States.
[1]
Robinson arrived in
New York City
on February 21, 1904.
[4]
"At
Ellis Island
I was born again", he wrote. "Life for me began when I was 10 years old."
[1]
He grew up on the
Lower East Side
,
[5]
:91
had his
Bar Mitzvah
at
First Roumanian-American Congregation
,
[6]
and attended
Townsend Harris High School
and then the
City College of New York
, planning to become a criminal attorney.
[7]
An interest in acting and performing in front of people led to him winning an
American Academy of Dramatic Arts
scholarship
,
[7]
after which he changed his name to
Edward G. Robinson
(the G. standing for his original
surname
).
[7]
He served in the
United States Navy
during
World War I
, but was never sent overseas.
[8]
Career
Robinson in his breakout role,
Little Caesar
(1931)
Robinson in
Billy Wilder
's
Double Indemnity
(1944)
Robinson and
Lynn Bari
in
Tampico
(1944)
All My Sons
(1948):
Louisa Horton
, Robinson,
Chester Erskine
(producer) and
Burt Lancaster
Florence Henderson
and Robinson on the set of
Song of Norway
(April 1969)
Theatre
He began his acting career in the
Yiddish Theater District
[9]
[10]
[11]
in 1913 and made his
Broadway
debut in 1915.
[1]
He made his film debut in
Arms and the Man
(1916).
In 1923 made his named debut as
E. G. Robinson
in the silent film,
The Bright Shawl
.
[1]
The Racket
He played a snarling gangster in the 1927
Broadway
police/crime drama
The Racket
, which led to his being cast in similar film roles, beginning with
The Hole in the Wall
(1929) with
Claudette Colbert
for
Paramount
. Paramount then cast him in a comedy,
The Kibitzer
(1930).
One of many actors who saw his career flourish in the new
sound film
era rather than falter, he made only three films prior to 1930, but left his stage career that year and made 14 films between 1930 and 1932.
Robinson went to
Universal
for
Night Ride
(1930) and MGM for
A Lady to Love
(1930) directed by
Victor Sjöström
. At Universal he was in
Outside the Law
and
East Is West
(both 1930), then he did
The Widow from Chicago
(1931) at
First National
.
Little Caesar
Robinson was established as a film actor. What made him a star was an acclaimed performance as the gangster Caesar Enrico "Rico" Bandello in
Little Caesar
(1931) at
Warner Bros
.
Robinson signed a long term contract with Warners. They put him in another gangster film,
Smart Money
(1931), his only movie with
James Cagney
. He was reunited with
Mervyn LeRoy
, director of
Little Caesar
, in
Five Star Final
(1931), playing a journalist, and played a Tong gangster in
The Hatchet Man
(1932).
Robinson made a third film with LeRoy,
Two Seconds
(1932) then did a melodrama directed by
Howard Hawks
,
Tiger Shark
(1932).
Warners tried him in a biopic,
Silver Dollar
(1932), where Robinson played
Horace Tabor
, a comedy,
The Little Giant
(1933) and a romance,
I Loved a Woman
(1933).
Robinson was then in
Dark Hazard
(1934), and
The Man with Two Faces
(1934).
He went to Columbia for
The Whole Town's Talking
(1935), a comedy directed by John Ford.
Sam Goldwyn
borrowed him for
Barbary Coast
(1935), again directed by Hawks.
Back at Warners he did
Bullets or Ballots
(1936) then he went to Britain for
Thunder in the City
(1937). He made
Kid Galahad
(1937) with
Bette Davis
and
Humphrey Bogart
. MGM borrowed him for
The Last Gangster
(1937) then he did a comedy
A Slight Case of Murder
(1938). Again with Bogart in a supporting role, he was in
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
(1938) then he was borrowed by Columbia for
I Am the Law
(1938).
World War Two
At the time
World War II
broke out in Europe, he played an FBI agent in
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
(1939), the first American film which showed
Nazism
as a threat to the United States.
He volunteered for military service in June 1942 but was disqualified due to his age at 48,
[12]
although he became an active and vocal critic of fascism and Nazism during that period.
[13]
MGM borrowed him for
Blackmail
(1939) then he played
Paul Ehrlich
in
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
(1940) and
Paul Julius Reuter
in
A Dispatch from Reuter's
(1940), both biographies of prominent Jewish public figures. In between, he and Bogart were in
Brother Orchid
(1940).
Robinson was teamed with
John Garfield
in
The Sea Wolf
(1941) and
George Raft
in
Manpower
(1941). He went to MGM for
Unholy Partners
(1942) and made a comedy
Larceny, Inc.
(1942).
Post Warners
Robinson was one of several stars in
Tales of Manhattan
(1942) and
Flesh and Fantasy
(1943).
He did war films:
Destroyer
(1943) at
Columbia
, and
Tampico
(1944) at
Fox
. At Paramount he was in
Billy Wilder
's
Double Indemnity
(1944) with
Fred MacMurray
and
Barbara Stanwyck
and at Columbia he was in
Mr. Winkle Goes to War
(1944). He then performed with
Joan Bennett
and
Dan Duryea
in
Fritz Lang
's
The Woman in the Window
(1944) and
Scarlet Street
(1945).
At MGM he was in
Our Vines Have Tender Grapes
(1945) then did
Orson Welles
'
The Stranger
(1946) with Welles and
Loretta Young
. Robinson followed it with a thriller
The Red House
(1947) and starred in an adaptation of
All My Sons
(1948).
Robinson appeared for director
John Huston
as gangster Johnny Rocco in
Key Largo
(1948), the last of five films he made with
Humphrey Bogart
and the only one in which Bogart did not play a supporting role.
He was in
Night Has a Thousand Eyes
in 1948 and
House of Strangers
in 1949.
Greylisting
Robinson found it hard to get work after his blacklisting. He was in low budgeted films:
Actors and Sin
(1952),
Vice Squad
(1953),
Big Leaguer
(1953),
The Glass Web
(1953),
Black Tuesday
(1954),
The Violent Men
(1955),
Tight Spot
(1955),
A Bullet for Joey
(1955),
Illegal
(1955), and
Hell on Frisco Bay
(1955).
His career rehabilitation received a boost in 1954, when noted
anti-communist
director
Cecil B. DeMille
cast him as the traitorous
Dathan
in
The Ten Commandments
. The film was released in 1956, as was his psychological thriller
Nightmare
.
After a subsequent short absence from the screen, Robinson's film career—augmented by an increasing number of television roles—restarted for good in 1958/59, when he was second-billed after Frank Sinatra in the 1959 release
A Hole in the Head
.
Supporting Actor
Robinson went to Europe for
Seven Thieves
(1960). He had support roles in
My Geisha
(1962),
Two Weeks in Another Town
(1962),
Sammy Going South
(1963),
The Prize
(1963),
Robin and the 7 Hoods
(1964),
Good Neighbor Sam
(1964),
Cheyenne Autumn
(1964), and
The Outrage
(1964).
He had a key part in
The Cincinnati Kid
(1965) and was top billed in
The Blonde from Peking
and
Grand Slam
(1967).
Robinson was originally cast in the role of Dr. Zaius in
Planet Of The Apes
(1968) and even went as far to filming a screen test with
Charlton Heston
. However, Robinson dropped out from the project before production began citing heart problems and concerns over the long hours under the heavy ape make up. He was replaced by
Maurice Evans
.
Later appearances included
The Biggest Bundle of Them All
(1968),
Never a Dull Moment
(1968),
It's Your Move
(1968),
Mackenna's Gold
(1969), and the
Night Gallery
episode “The Messiah on Mott Street" (1971).
The last scene Robinson filmed was a
euthanasia
sequence, with friend and co-star
Charlton Heston
, in the
science fiction
cult film
Soylent Green
(1973); he died only twelve days later.
Heston, as president of the
Screen Actors Guild
, presented Robinson with its annual award in 1969, "in recognition of his pioneering work in organizing the union, his service during World War II, and his 'outstanding achievement in fostering the finest ideals of the acting profession.'"
[5]
:124
Robinson was never nominated for an
Academy Award
, but in 1973 he was awarded an
honorary Oscar
in recognition that he had "achieved greatness as a player, a patron of the arts and a dedicated citizen ... in sum, a Renaissance man".
[1]
He had been notified of the honor, but died two months before the award ceremony, so the award was accepted by his widow, Jane Robinson.
[1]
Radio
From 1937 to 1942, Robinson starred as Steve Wilson, editor of the
Illustrated Press
, in the newspaper drama
Big Town
.
[14]
He also portrayed hardboiled detective
Sam Spade
for a
Lux Radio Theatre
adaptation of
The Maltese Falcon
. During the 1940s he also performed on CBS Radio's "Cadena de las Américas" network broadcasts to South America in collaboration with
Nelson Rockefeller
's
cultural diplomacy
program at the U. S. State Department's
Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs
.
[15]
Personal life
Robinson and his son in a 1962 episode of
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
.
Robinson married his first wife, stage actress Gladys Lloyd, born Gladys Lloyd Cassell, in 1927; she was the former wife of Ralph L. Vestervelt and the daughter of Clement C. Cassell, an architect, sculptor and artist. The couple had one son,
Edward G. Robinson, Jr.
(a.k.a. Manny Robinson, 1933–1974), as well as a daughter from Gladys Robinson's first marriage.
[16]
In 1956 the couple divorced. In 1958 he married Jane Bodenheimer, a dress designer professionally known as Jane Arden. Thereafter he also maintained a home in
Palm Springs, California
.
[17]
In noticeable contrast to many of his onscreen characters, Robinson was a sensitive, softly-spoken and cultured man who spoke seven languages.
[1]
Remaining a
liberal
Democrat
, he attended the 1960 Democratic Convention in
Los Angeles, California
.
[18]
He was a passionate art collector, eventually building up a significant private
collection
. In 1956, however, he was forced to sell his collection to pay for his divorce settlement with Gladys Robinson; his finances had also suffered due to underemployment in the early 1950s.
[5]
:120
Death
Robinson died at
Mount Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles
of
bladder cancer
[19]
on January 26, 1973. Services were held at Temple Israel in Los Angeles where
Charlton Heston
delivered the eulogy.
[20]
:131
Over 1,500 friends of Robinson attended with another 500 crowded outside.
[5]
:125
His body was then flown to New York where it was entombed in a crypt in the family mausoleum at Beth-El Cemetery in Brooklyn.
[20]
:131
Among his pallbearers were
Jack L. Warner
,
Hal B. Wallis
,
Mervyn LeRoy
,
George Burns
,
Sam Jaffe
, and
Frank Sinatra
.
[1]
In October 2000, Robinson's image was imprinted on a U.S. postage stamp, its sixth in its Legends of Hollywood series.