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Born in 1884, virile and dashing silent screen idol Owen Moore, equipped with incredibly handsome reddish and ruddy features, came to America with his family from Ireland at the age of 11. After some stage work, he entered films at the Biograph Studio in 1908 and appeared in many of D.W. Griffith's early productions.
Owen was Mary Pickford's stylish leading man in her early career-starters and they secretly married in 1911. Some of their classic pictures together include Cinderella (1914), in which he played her Prince Charming, and Mistress Nell (1915). Mary left Owen for Douglas Fairbanks, however, and the couple eventually divorced in 1920. A couple of years later Owen met and wed silent film actress Kathleen Perry, a marriage that lasted until his sudden death of a heart attack at age 54. This couple also made several pictures together.
A talented singer in his own right, Owen's timing was off for he was much too old to see what kind of impression he could have made in musicals come the advent of sound. A popular romantic leading man during his heyday, his career took a nosedive once talkies arrived. His last film would be Janet Gaynor's A Star Is Born (1937), in which he played a movie director.
Owen's brothers Tom Moore and Matt Moore were also popular leading men at around the same time, but Owen was probably the best known due to his association with Pickford. The three of them appeared together in only one feature film, Side Street (1929). His mother Mary Moore was a character actress for a time, featured in Clara Kimball Young's film Lola (1914). She eventually quit the business, returned to the British Isles and became Lady Wyndham, and died there in 1931. Two other siblings were also briefly actors, Mary Moore and Joe Moore (aka Joseph Moore), but they died young and remain much lesser known. Owen died fairly young himself at age 54 of a heart attack in 1939.- Emma Haig was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At the age of twelve she started dancing professionally to help support her parents, Alex and Emily Haig. Emma made her Broadway debut in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1916. The diminutive dancer appeared in numerous shows including Miss 1917, Hitchy Koo, and The Magic Melody. She also performed in vaudeville with George White. Emma was briefly engaged to Broadway actor Jack McGowan. While dancing on stage in 1922 she fell into the orchestra pit and broke her spine. Her doctors told her she would probably never dance again. After a painful recovery she returned to Broadway in 1923 starring in The Rise Of Rosie O'Reilly.
Her dancing and acting got rave reviews. In an interview she said "I had a wonderful surgeon and then I determined nothing could stop my career. I knew I should dance again no matter what anyone said." She went to London in 1927 to star in a production of The Girlfriend. Emma married musician Art Fowler in 1928 and decided to quit dancing. The couple opened a popular antiques store in Hollywood. Their customers included Joan Crawford and Edward G. Robinson. In her spare time she enjoyed playing golf and gardening. Tragically on June 9, 1939 she died from heart attack at her Los Angeles home. She was only forty years old. She was cremated at Grandview Memorial Park in Glendale, California. - Art Department
Conrad Tritschler was born in 1867 in Carlisle, England, UK. He is known for White Zombie (1932) and Trilby (1923). He was married to Lucy Elizabeth Evans. He died on 9 June 1939 in London, England, UK.