Audrey Maple

Audrey Maple was born Elsie H. Schroeder in Trenton, New Jersey. Her father was a musician.[1]

Audrey Maple performed on vaudeville in a novelty act called Pianophiends.[2] In the operetta The Love Waltz (1908-1909), she was half of a highly publicized "eight-minute kiss" during a dance scene.[3][4]

She appeared in Broadway productions, mostly musical comedies, including The Arcadians (1910), The Firefly (1912-1913), Molly O (1916),[5] Katinka (1916),[6] Good Night, Paul (1917),[7] Her Regiment by Victor Herbert (1917),[8][9] Monte Cristo Jr. (1919), Tangerine (1921-1922), Princess April (1924), Naughty Riquette (1926), My Princess (1927), Sunny Days (1928), Angela (1928-1929), and The Street Singer (1929-1930).[10]

Maple appeared in two films, The Plumbers are Coming (1929) and Enlighten Thy Daughter (1934).

Maple's personal life involved enough gossip, scandal, and legal entanglements to prompt commentary in newspapers: "What again! It's perfectly terrible the way wives pick on poor little Audrey Maple, the pretty musical comedy star, and try to make out that she is a naughty girl."[11][12][13] In 1928 she survived a car accident in Chicago that killed one of her co-stars, dancer Rosalie Claire.[14]

In 1940, Audrey Maple married engineer and inventor Ernest A. Zadig,[15] and retired from the stage. She died in New York in 1971, aged 72 years.[16]

• Audrey Maple on IMDb
• Audrey Maple at the Internet Broadway Database
• A photograph of Audrey Maple in the Billy Rose Theatre Collection Photograph File, New York Public Library Digital Collections.