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Catherine Calvert

Born
Apr 20, 1890 · Aged 80
Died
Jan 18, 1971
Place of birth
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Gender
Female
Movie credits
21
TV credits
0
Also known as (1)
  • Catherine Cassidy

Biography

The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cassidy, Catherine Calvert was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. She made her stage debut in the play Brown of Harvard in September 1908, in Albany, New York. On Broadway, she portrayed Laura Moore in The Deep Purple (1911), May Joyce in The Escape (1913), and Dona Sol in Blood and Sand (1921). After many years' experience onstage in productions including The Deep Purple (a play by her future husband, Paul Armstrong), in 1910, she entered films via Keeney Pictures Corporation in A Romance of the Underworld (1918; based on a play in which she had…