Mary Miles Minter:Born in 1902 in Louisiana,silent movie star Mary Miles Minter acted in the theater as a child and arrived on screen at age ten in 1912.In the next decade she would appear in over 50 films,and typecast as a delicate and lovely child waif in the Mary Pickford style.Only a handful of Mary's silent films have survived,which is a shame,considering what a delightful actress she was on screen.This speaks very poorly of an industry which allowed many of its silent treasures to rust away into oblivion once sound came in.In contrast to her delicate ingenue screen image,Mary was rather strong and intelligent,but she had to live under the domination of her stage mother,Charlotte Shelby,a frustrated actress who lived her own life's ambitions through Mary and her sister Margaret,and who managed Mary's career and personal life with an iron fist.Mary died from heart failure in 1984.
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