Actors and Actresses CDVs

Actors & Actresses

ACT6. Karoly, Royal Leamington Spa. Cabinet Card of a fellow all dressed up in medieval garb with his boy and horn. I just figured he must be an actor. VG. $35

ACT7. Window & Grove, London. Miss Ellen Terry (1847-1928) as "Margaret." Cabinet Card. VG. $55

ACT10. W&D Downey, London. Mrs. Langtry. Lillie Langtry (1853-1929), renowned theatre actress. Cabinet Card. VG. $125

ACT13. J. Notman, Boston. CB Perkins. Cabinet Card. VG. $35

ACT15. No ID. Henry Irving (1838-1905). Great actor/manager of the Victorian Theatre. Glue stains on back of cabinet card. G. $35

ACT20. H. Rocher & Co, Chicago. Cabinet Card of Mrs. Lilly Langtry. G+ $85

ACT29. E. Anthony, NY. Peter Richings (1797-1871). English-American actor and manager; favorite for 16 years at the Park Theater, NY; manager of Richings English Opera troupe. CDV trimmed at bottom. VG. $45

ACT30. Gurney, NY. Mrs. Scott Siddons. CDV. VG. $45

ACT31. No ID. Lizzie Harrold. CDV. VG. $25

ACT32. Charles D. Fredricks & Co., NY. John Lester Wallack (1820-1888), actor and manager. Managed the second Wallack's Theater in NY and opened the third. Trimmed. CDV. VG. $85

ACT35. Photographic negative from Brady's National Portrait Gallery, published by E&HT Anthony, NY. Edwin Forrest (1806-1872). Well-known American actor. Corners clipped. CDV. VG. $85

ACT37. J. Gurney & Son, NY. Mrs. John Wood, born Matilda Charlotte Vining (1831-1915); English actress and theatre manager. CDV trimmed at bottom. VG. $75

ACT38. E. Anthony, NY. Mrs. John Wood, born Matilda Charlotte Vining (1831-1915); English actress and theatre manager. CDV trimmed at bottom. VG. $75

ACT40. Charles D. Fredricks & Co., NY. Agnes Kelly Robertson (1833-1916). Actress, adopted daughter of Charles Keen. CDV. VG. $40

ACT41. Photographic negative from Brady's National Portrait Gallery, published by E. Anthony, NY. Edward Loomis Davenport (1816-1877); American actor. CDV trimmed at bottom. VG. $65

ACT42. Photographic negative from Brady's National Portrait Gallery, published by E. Anthony, NY. Edwin Forrest (1806-1872), American actor. CDV trimmed at bottom. VG. $75

ACT43. J. Gurney & Son, NY. George Holland (1791-1870), English-American stage actor. CDV trimmed at bottom. VG. $50

ACT44. J. Gurney & Son, NY. Daniel Webster Bryant (1833-1875). Famous negro minstrel, member of "Sable Hamonists," "Bryant's Minstrels." Manager as well. CDV. G. $85

ACT45. J. Gurney & Son, NY. Harry Pearson, comedian, burlesque actor. CDV trimmed at bottom. VG. $40

ACT50. J. Gurney & Son, NY. Paul Juignet, actor. CDV trimmed at bottom. VG. $45

ACT51. Ashford Brothers & Co., London. Popular Actresses, No. 1. 25 actresses are pictured: Mrs. C. Young, Miss Cottrell, Mme. Celeste, Lady Don, Mrs. H. Webb, Miss Herbert, Rachel, Helen Faucit, Mrs. Boucicault, Miss E. Howard, Miss K. Saville, Mrs. & Miss Stirling, Mrs. C. Kean, Ristori, Mrs. G. Reed, Miss Heath, Miss Swanborough, Miss A. Sedgwick, Miss Cushman, Miss K. Terry, Miss C. Saunders, Mrs. C. Mathews, Miss C. Leclerc, and Lydia Thompson. CDV. VG. $50

ACT54. J. Gurney & Son, NY. Samuel Erwin Ryan (b. 1834), Irish actor and comedian. CDV trimmed at bottom. VG. $60

ACT55. J. Gurney & Son, NY. William Randolph Floyd (b. 1832); actor and manager. CDV. VG. $35

ACT56. Photographic negative from Brady's National Portrait Gallery, published by E. Anthony, NY. Mrs. J.H. Allen, actress. CDV trimmed at bottom. VG. $35

ACT57. Photographic negative from Brady's National Portrait Gallery, published by E. Anthony, NY. James H. Hackett (1800-1871); actor, best know for Falstaff. CDV trimmed at bottom. VG. $65

ACT58. J. Gurney & Son, NY. John Nunan (1832-1870); Irish actor and comedian at Niblo's Gardens, NY. CDV trimmed at bottom. VG. $35

ACT59. J. Gurney & Son, NY. Charles John Kean (1811-1868), actor. CDV trimmed at bottom. VG. $35

ACT60. J. Gurney & Son, NY. Livingston R. Shewell (1833-1873), actor. CDV trimmed at bottom. VG. $35

ACT69. J. Gurney & Son, NY. William Henry Norton (d. 1876), English actor, a favorite at Wallack's NY. CDV trimmed at bottom. VG. $25

ACT74. J. Gurney & Son, NY. Ione Burke, singer and actress. CDV trimmed at bottom. VG. $20

ACT77. No ID. CDV of Mrs. Thompson, wife of Lysander Thompson, English actor popular in the US and mother of Charlotte Thompson, actress. Trimmed at bottom. VG. $25

ACT79. Johnson's National Gallery, Washington, DC. John Wilkes Booth. CDV trimmed at bottom, top corners clipped, ripple as seen on back. G. $125

ACT80. T.R. Burnham, Boston. Edwin Forrest (1806-1872). Well-known American actor. CDV. VG. $50

ACT82. No ID. Large hard card-mounted photo (12" x 7.5") probably by Sarony but bottom inch with gallery name is trimmed. Effie Ellsler (1855?–1942), actress. Born in Cleveland, where her parents were popular actors and her father ran the leading playhouse, she made her debut while still a child and for many years played supporting and ingenue roles, acting with Edwin Booth, Lawrence Barrett, John McCullough, and other celebrities during their Cleveland visits. Ellsler came to New York in 1880, making a sensation in her very first part, the title role of Hazel Kirke. She won ecstatic notices for her forceful yet natural portrayal of the character, which she played for three years. Thereafter, however, her choices of starring parts were ill-advised. She appeared in numerous unsuccessful claptrap melodramas: Courage (1883), Storm Beaten (1883), Woman Against Woman (1886), The Keepsake (1888), and Judge Not (1888). For most of the 1890s she toured in road companies, and in 1900 headed the tour of Barbara Frietchie. Three years later she was Jessica to Maxine Elliott's Portia in The Merchant of Venice. Minor roles in a number of plays followed before Ellsler scored one last hit as Cornelia Van Gorder, who rents a summer home and finds herself in the middle of a murder, in The Bat (1920). VG. $50

ACT85. Dana, New York. Large hard card-mounted photo (13" x 7.25"). Charles Walter Couldock (1815–98), actor. One of the leading character actors of the 19th century, he was born in London and decided on a stage career after watching Macready perform. His professional debut occurred in 1836, then thirteen years later he came to America where playgoers first saw him in the title role of The Stranger. After four seasons at Philadelphia's Walnut Street Theatre, he embarked on a long tour as the old farmer Luke Fielding in The Willow Copse, a role he returned to as late as 1885. Couldock joined Laura Keene's company in 1858 and later successfully played such roles as Iago and Hamlet. However, his most celebrated part was that of Dunstan Kirke, who unjustly banishes his daughter, in Hazel Kirke (1880). Clara Morris described the heavyset, curly-haired actor as looking like “the beau-ideal wealthy farmer” and noted, “The strong point of his acting was in the expression of intense emotion—particularly grief or frenzied rage. He was utterly lacking in dignity, courtliness, or subtlety. He was best as a rustic.” VG. $125

ACT86. Falk, NY. Georgia Cayvan (1858–1906), actress. Born in Bath, Maine, this beautiful leading lady spent several years playing in Boston before succeeding Effie Ellsler as Hazel Kirke in New York in 1881. She immediately became a prominent actress, portraying the heroine in such famous comedies or dramas as The Professor (1881); The White Slave (1882), in which she spoke the once famous lines, “Rags are royal raiment when worn for virtue's sake”; Siberia (1883); May Blossom (1884); The Wife (1887); The Charity Ball (1889); and Squire Kate (1892). An illness forced a premature retirement and led to her early death. VG. $125

ACT88. Sarony, NY. Lester Wallack. Cabinet Card. E. $35

ACT89. Sarony, NY. Lester Wallack. Cabinet Card. VG. $35

ACT90. Sarony, NY. Mary Anderson. Cabinet Card. G. $25

ACT91. Brady's National Portrait Gallery, published by E&HT Anthony. Edwin Booth. VG. $150

ACT92. Label for CAM, Optician, Paris on verso. Adelaide Ristori (1822-1906), Italian tragedienne. CDV. VG. $35

ACT93. Brady's National Portrait Gallery, published by E&HT Anthony. James Henry Hackett (March 15, 1800, – December 28, 1871), was a renowned actor. Hackett entered Columbia College in 1815 but withdrew. He then studied law privately. In 1818, he became a wholesale clerk in a grocery firm in New York. In 1819, he married Catherine Leebuff, a young actress. After an unsuccessful entry into business, he went on the stage in March 1826 playing the role of Justice Woodcock in Love of a Village. He played opposite his wife in the play. He soon established a reputation as a player of eccentric character parts. The next year, he played at the Covent Garden in London with success. He traveled back and forth between the United States and Britain, achieving a reputation in the works of Shakespeare, particularly Falstaff. As a manager and impresario, he managed both the NY Bowery Theatre and the Boston Atheneum and he is remembered, among other things, for having engaged the troupe of Italian opera singers who formed the nucleus of the first season (1854-55) of the Academy of Music in New York City. After that, he appeared only rarely on the public stage. He was the author of Notes and Comments on Shakespeare (1863). CDV. VG. $65

ACT94. J. Gurney & Son, NY. Adelaide Ristori (1822-1906), Italian tragedienne. CDV. VG. $35

ACT95. E&HT Anthony, NY. Marietta Piccolomini was born Maria Teresa Violante Piccolomini Clementini in Sienna, Italy on 5 March 1834. She was descended from Italian nobility, and her parents were horrified at her wanting to pursue a career in opera, but she succeeded in persuading them to allow her to do so. From the age of four years, Marietta had amused herself at playing at mock theatrical representations. She used to sing duets with her mother, a skilful amateur, and she had been instructed by Romani, one of the first professional singing teachers in Italy.^[Marietta had long implored her father to allow her to appear on the stage. At last she prevailed and she made her debut in Rome, November, 1852, in Donizetti's Poliuto and Antonio Cagnoni’s Don Bucefalo, under the guidance of her teacher, Romani. Then she appeared in her native town of Sienna and subsequently, she went to Florence, where she performed in Lucrezia Borgia. In Pisa in 1853, she sang Gilda in Rigoletto and in Turin in 1855 she sang Violetta in La Traviata, a role in which she became especially famous. The response in Turin was a spectacle not seen before in the world of entertainment. Throngs surrounded her hotel. Men tried to unharness the horses from her carriage so that they might draw it through the streets themselves but she would not permit this. When word of her success in Turin reached Britain, she was invited to sing La Traviata at Her Majesty's Theatre in London, where she appeared for the first time on May 24, 1856. On May 5 she appeared in Lucia di Lammermoor. Due to her limited range of a little over two octaves, the music had to be transposed or adapted to suit her capabilities. Nevertheless, audiences received her well. On June 26, Piccolomini appeared for the first time as Maria, in La figlia del reggimento, and on July 26 in Don Pasquale. She also sang Zerlina in Don Giovanni. Although these performances revealed her inexperience, critics praised her dramatic ability. Following her season in England, Piccolomini sang in Dublin with great success. Piccolomini's appearance in Paris in Traviata on December 6, 1856 was the first time the opera had been heard in France. Verdi tried to stop the opera from being performed at Théâtre des Italiens owing to lack of copyright for his operas in France at the time, as did Alexandre Dumas, who claimed copyright infringement of La Dame aux camélias, but without success. Again, while critics remarked on the limitations of her voice and singing, they praised her natural talent and stage presence.When the Empress Eugénie heard that she had missed the most talked about première in Paris, she sent word to Calzado, the director of the theatre, and a command performance was arranged for the Emperor and her. Piccolomini returned to the United Kingdom on April 21, 1857 and performed in in La figlia del reggimento again and also in Don Giovanni, Lucia di Lammermoor and Le Nozze di Figaro. She had been working hard to improve her technique as a result of the criticism she had received the year before. She then made a provincial tour which included Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Bath, Bristol, Cheltenham, Brighton, and other places. Then she repaired again to Dublin. In November and December she went with Giuglini on a starring tour through Germany. Marietta Piccolomini died of pneumonia on 11 December 1899 at her villa in Florence. She is interred in the Cimitero delle Porte Sante. CDV. VG. $65

ACT96. Brady's National Portrait Gallery, published by E&HT Anthony. Ellen Kean (12 December 1805 – 20 August 1880) was an English actress. She was known as Ellen Tree until her marriage in 1842, after which she was known both privately and professionally as Mrs Charles Kean and always appeared in productions together with her husband. CDV. VG. $75

ACT97. Brady's National Portrait Gallery, published by E&HT Anthony. Kate Josephine Bateman (Mrs. Crowe) (October 7, 1842 – April 8, 1917) was an American actress. She was born at Baltimore, Md., the daughter of Hezekiah Linthicum Bateman, an actor and theatrical manager. Her mother was also an actress. With her sister, Ellen (later Mrs. Greppo), she appeared on stage almost in infancy and exhibited unusual talent. In 1856, the Bateman children retired from child acting. Ellen Bateman would never return to the stage, retiring permanently after her marriage to Claude Greppo in 1860. In March of 1860, the sixteen year old Kate Bateman returned to the stage in her mother's adaptation of Longfellow's Evangeline at the Winter Garden in New York City. This role launched the young Kate to stardom and she eventually fell into the usual "romantic" roles, such as Shakespeare's Juliet, Pauline in The Lady of Lyons and Julia in The Hunchback. Kate's "greatest dramatic triumph" as an actress, was her role in Leah the Forsaken, as the title character Leah. The play opened at Niblo's Garden in New York on January 19, 1863; it was extremely popular despite horrible reviews from dramatic critics. Kate became identified with role of Leah, her emotional performance and "the bloodcurdling curse she hurled at her faithless Christian lover." She acted on stage in New York in 1862, and made a remarkable success as Leah in London in 1863. She married George Crowe, son of Eyre Evans Crowe the former editor of the London Daily News, in 1866, then left the stage, but would later revive Leah in 1868 at the Haymarket in London. Bateman would leave the stage again for several years due to a facial disfigurement caused by illness, but return to the stage once again in 1891 in Henry James' The American and in 1892 open a school for acting in London. Bateman continued to appear on stage in David, Colonel Newcome and Euripides' Medea in 1907. CDV. VG. $65

ACT98. E&HT Anthony. Johanna Maria Lind (6 October 1820 – 2 November 1887), better known as Jenny Lind, was a Swedish opera singer, often known as the "Swedish Nightingale." One of the most highly regarded singers of the 19th century, she is known for her performances in soprano roles in opera in Sweden and across Europe, and for an extraordinarily popular concert tour of America beginning in 1850. She was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music from 1840. Lind became famous after her performance in Der Freischutz in Sweden in 1838. Within a few years, she had suffered vocal damage, but the singing teacher Manuel García saved her voice. She was in great demand in opera roles throughout Sweden and northern Europe during the 1840s, becoming the protégée of Felix Mendelssohn. After two acclaimed seasons in London, she announced her retirement from opera at the age of 29. In 1850, Lind went to America at the invitation of the showman P. T. Barnum. She gave 93 large-scale concerts for him and then continued to tour under her own management. She earned more than $350,000 from these concerts, donating the proceeds to charities, principally the endowment of free schools in Sweden. With her new husband, Otto Goldschmidt, she returned to Europe in 1852 where she had three children and gave occasional concerts over the next two decades, settling in England in 1855. From 1882, for some years, she was a professor of singing at the Royal College of Music in London. CDV. VG. $75

ACT99. Brady's National Portrait Gallery, published by E&HT Anthony. Charles John Kean (18 January 1811 - 22 January 1868), actor, was born at Waterford, Ireland, the son of the actor Edmund Kean. CDV. VG. $75

ACT102. Sarony, NY. Alfred Hickman as Little Billee in the play "Trilby" based on George Du Maurier's novel, 1895. Cabinet Card. VG. $45

ACT103. G. Illingworth, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Inscribed "With love to Eva from Ruby Hallier." Cabinet Card. VG. $85

ACT104. G. Illingworth, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Inscribed "With love to Eva from Ruby Hallier." Cabinet Card. VG. $85

ACT105. E&HT Anthony. Charlotte Cushman (1816 – 1876), American stage actress. VG. $75

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