Mary Augusta Davey Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Minnie Maddern Fiske (December 19, 1865 - February 15, 1932), born as Marie Augusta Davey with some sources quoting December 19, 1864 as her date of birth, but often billed simply as Mrs. Fiske, was one of the leading American actresses of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. She also spearheaded the fight against the Theatrical Syndicate for the sake of artistic freedom. She was widely considered the most important actress on the American stage in the first quarter of the 20th century. Her performances in several Henrik Ibsen plays widely introduced American audiences to the Norwegian playwright.
Her future husband Harrison Grey Fiske saw her for the first time playing a boy in the play "King John", she was eight and he was 13. They would not be formally introduced for another 11 years.
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Along with her husband Harrison Grey Fiske, she was instrumental in breaking up the "Theater Trust" (or theatrical syndicate) that controlled almost every theater in America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Made her stage debut at the age of four.
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Her father was a prominent Southern theater manager and her mother was the daughter of an English musician and concert master.
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At the time of her death was considered one of America's greatest actresses.
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She starred as Becky Sharp in the original 1899 production of Langdon Mitchell's "Becky Sharp", which would become the first three-color Technicolor film in 1935 (Becky Sharp (1935)), starring Miriam Hopkins. However, Mrs. Fiske repeated her own stage performance as Becky in the film Vanity Fair (1915), the play on which the play and film of "Becky Sharp" had been based.
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