Actress/dramatic teacher Maude Fealy, the daughter of actress Margaret Fealy, was born in Memphis, Tennessee, on March 3, 1881. Maude made her acting debut at three years of age in one of her mother's productions, "Faust". She was quite successful over the next few years, appearing in productions all over the US and Canada. In 1901 she toured ...
I was born in Memphis, Tenn., though since my mother married a second time and went to live in Denver I've always claimed to be a Western girl. You know the California girls are famed as the best actresses. So it's too bad that mamma did not go to San Francisco instead of Denver. Then I should have been ever so much greater.
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[on meeting William Gillette] when he said I looked too young I hurried downtown and got my first long skirt. When next I saw Mr. Gillette my hair was done up for the first time, and I wore high heeled slippers, so that I looked a good deal more of a woman. He laughed and said I looked lots older, but I know I didn't. I will never forget that skirt. It didn't fit me - it didn't begin to. The amount of trouble I had to try and make it presentable would only be appreciated by a woman. However, I firmly believe that skirt got me the position, and, as I consider myself a very fortunate girl in getting it, I naturally cherish my first long skirt.
Entombed at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Hollywood, California - Abbey of the Psalms Mausoleum, Crypt 7188, G-3 Top Row, East Wall. Her funeral expenses were paid by the estate of Cecil B. DeMille.
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Reportedly appeared in roles in every Cecil B. DeMille picture after the advent of sound movies, including the director's last The Ten Commandments (1956).
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Drama coach.
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
Seventeen
1940
Woman Driver (uncredited)
Emergency Squad
1940
Mother (uncredited)
Union Pacific
1939
Woman (uncredited)
Bulldog Drummond's Peril
1938
Spinster (uncredited)
The Buccaneer
1938
Wife (uncredited)
Race Suicide
1938
Smashing the Vice Trust
1937
Laugh and Get Rich
1931
Miss Teasdale
The American Consul
1917
Joan Kitwell
The Immortal Flame
1916
Ada Forbes
Bondwomen
1915
Norma Ellis
The Girl from Tim's Place
1915
Short
Chip
It Might Have Been Worse
1914
Short
Mary Jane's Burglar
1914
Short
Deborah the Jewish Maiden
1914
Short
Deborah
Pamela Congreve
1914
Pamela Congreve
Was She Right in Forgiving Him?
1914
Short
Louise Vaughn - the Heiress
The Musician's Daughter
1914
Short
May - as an Adult
Kathleen the Irish Rose
1914
Short
Kathleen Mavourneen
The Golden Cross
1914
Short
Christine
A New England Idyl
1914
Short
Mrs. Fownes (as Miss Fealy)
The Woman Pays
1914
Short
Margaret Watson
The Runaway Princess
1914
Short
Princess Priscilla
Frou Frou
1914
Frou Frou
An Orphan's Romance
1913
Short
Mary, the Orphan
The Legend of Provence
1913
Sister Angela
Moths
1913
Vere
Little Dorrit
1913
Short
Little Dorrit, as an Adult
King René's Daughter
1913
Short
Iolante, the Blind Girl
Aurora Floyd
1912
Short
East Lynne
1912
Short
David Copperfield
1911
Short
The Buccaneer
1958
Townswoman (uncredited)
The Ten Commandments
1956
Slave Woman / Hebrew at Crag and Corridor
A Double Life
1947
Woman (uncredited)
The Unfaithful
1947
Old Maid in Montage (uncredited)
Gaslight
1944
Bit Part (uncredited)
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Remorse
1914
Short scenario
The Musician's Daughter
1914
Short scenario
The Woman Pays
1914
Short scenario
Miscellaneous
Title
Year
Status
Character
Girl Loves Boy
1937
dialogue coach
Known for movies
The Ten Commandments (1956) as Slave Woman / Hebrew at Crag and Corridor
The Musician's Daughter (1914) as May - as an Adult
The Woman Pays (1914) as Margaret Watson
King René's Daughter (1913) as Iolante, the Blind Girl
$6 Million
