Olive Wyndham

Olive Wyndham
Olive Wyndham, from a 1912 publication. Portrait by Sarony.
Born Olive Frances Wyndham Meysenburg
(1886-06-16)June 16, 1886
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Died November 24, 1971(1971-11-24) (aged 85)
Nationality American
Occupation actor
Years active 1904-1927

Olive Wyndham (June 16, 1886 – November 24, 1971) was an American actress on stage and in silent films.

Early life

Olive Frances Wyndham Meysenburg was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,[1] the daughter of E. A. von Meysenburg, a German diplomat, and Oral Josephine Wyndham. Her older sister Janet Beecher was also an actress.[2]

Career

Olive Wyndham, and a toy terrier named Mary, from a 1913 publication.

Wyndham's stage credits included roles in The Ruling Power (1904), She Stoops to Conquer (1905), Sir Anthony (1906), The Aero Club (1907), The Man From Home (1908),[3] Blue Grass (1908),[4] The Cottage in the Air (1909), The School for Scandal (1909), Sister Beatrice (1910), The Thunderbolt (1910), Nobody's Daughter (1911), The Only Son (1911), Chains (1912), Oliver Twist (1912),[5] What Happened to Mary (1913),[6] Countess Julia (1913), The Last Resort (1914), Children of Earth (1915),[7] The Greatest Nation (1916), The Sweetmeat Game (1916),[8] The Knife (1917),[9] Nothing But Lies (1918), A Voice in the Dark (1919),[10] The Green Goddess (1921), The Charlatan (1922), Thin Ice (1922), The Steam Roller (1924), Dinner at Eight (1932). In 1927 she was acting in Massachusetts, including in Cradle Snatchers with her sister Janet Beecher.

Olive Wyndham appeared in two silent films, Your Girl and Mine (1914, a suffrage film backed by the National American Woman Suffrage Association) and Fighting Bob (1915).[11] Her striking fashion choices were a matter of press interest, as in the 1907 headline "Olive Wyndham's Hat Biggest in United States".[12]

Personal life

Olive Wyndham was engaged to marry lawyer Walter Kirkpatrick Brice in 1915,[13] but the engagement was broken a few months later.[14] She married mining engineer Andrew White Newberry in 1925.[15] She married Lucien Hamilton Tyng in 1933.[16] She died in Santa Monica, California in 1971, aged 85 years.

References

  1. ↑ Who's Who in the Theatre (Pittman 1922): 893-894.
  2. ↑ "A Home-Grown Comedienne" Cosmopolitan (November 1914): 808-809.
  3. ↑ "Olive Wyndham, An Actress Devoid of Affectation" Star Tribune (June 10, 1908): 4. via Newspapers.com
  4. ↑ "Bad Realism and Good" Munsey's Magazine (1909): 554.
  5. ↑ W. P. Eaton, "Some Recent Worthwhile Plays" American Magazine (June 1912): 238.
  6. ↑ Ann Randolph, "Olive Wyndham: Her Art and Herself" The National Magazine (October 1913): 157-160.
  7. ↑ Louis V. DeFoe, "The Puzzle of the Prize Play" The Green Book Magazine (April 1915): 645.
  8. ↑ "Chinese Play at Palace" New York Times (November 21, 1916): 9. via ProQuest
  9. ↑ "Tense Melodrama by Eugene Walter" New York Times (April 13, 1917): 11. via ProQuest
  10. ↑ "Republic: A Voice in the Dark" Theatre Magazine (September 1919): 181.
  11. ↑ "Make Reel Appeal" People's Voice (January 7, 1915): 3. via Newspapers.com
  12. ↑ "Olive Wyndham's Hat Biggest in United States" Wilkes-Barre Times Leader (October 7, 1907): 5. via Newspapers.com
  13. ↑ "W. K. Brice to Wed Actress" New York Times (July 3, 1915): 16. via ProQuest
  14. ↑ "Brice-Wyndham Betrothal Broken" New York Times (October 20, 1915): 11. via ProQuest
  15. ↑ "Olive Wyndham a Bride" New York Times (May 15, 1925): 22. via ProQuest
  16. ↑ "Lucien Tyng Weds Olive F. Wyndham" New York Times (October 17, 1933): 25. via ProQuest
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