Ethel Clayton
From Wikipedia Ethel Clayton (November 8, 1882 — June 6, 1966) was an American actress of the silent film era. Clayton's screen debut came in 1909, in a short called Justified. She jockeyed her early film appearances with a burgeoning stage career. Her pretty blond looks were reminiscent of the famous Gibson Girl drawings by Charles Dana Gibson. On the stage she appeared mainly in musicals or musical reviews such as The Ziegfeld Follies of 1911. These musical appearances indicate a singing talent Clayton may have possessed but went unused in her many silent screen performances. In 1912 she appeared in "The Country Boy" on stage at the Lyceum Theatre in Rochester New York and made her feature length film debut in For the Love of a Girl. The film was directed by Barry O'Neil. She was cast with Harry Myers, Charles Arthur, and Peter Lang. She was also directed by William Demille, Robert G. Vignola, George Melford, Donald Crisp, Dallas M. Fitzgerald, and Clifford Sanforth. Like many silent film actors Clayton's career was hurt by the coming of sound to motion pictures. She continued her career in small parts in movies until she retired in 1948. Her screen credits number more than 180. Clayton was first married to actor-director Joseph Kaufman until his death in 1918 in the Spanish Influenza epidemic. She later married silent film actor and former star Ian Keith twice and they divorced twice. In both cases Clayton cited cruelty and excessive drinking. Clayton and Keith were first married in Minneapolis in 1928 and first separated on January 13, 1931. Ethel Clayton died on June 6, 1966 at St. John's Hospital in Oxnard, California, aged 83. She was buried at Ivy Lawn Memorial Park in Ventura, California. For her contributions to the motion picture industry, Ethel Clayton has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
106 acting credits
Acting · 106
Hollywood Boulevard
1936
Make Way for Tomorrow
1937
The Major and the Minor
1942
Easy Living
1937
Boy Trouble
1939
Wells Fargo
1937
If I Were King
1938
Say It in French
1938
You and Me
1938
Cocoanut Grove
1938
Secrets
1933
Love Thy Neighbor
1940
The All-American
1932
King of Chinatown
1939
Cafe Society
1939
The Accusing Finger
1936
Beyond the Blue Horizon
1942
Men with Wings
1938
Geronimo
1939
Artists & Models
1937
Wings of Youth
1925
Yours for the Asking
1936
New York Town
1941
Waikiki Wedding
1937
True to Life
1943
Exclusive
1937
Sham
1921
Lightnin'
1925
The Bar-C Mystery
1926
Turn Off the Moon
1937
Her Own Money
1922
Private Jones
1933
Merry Widower
1926
The Cradle
1922
Dixie
1943
The Crooked Circle
1932
A Lady in Love
1920
Hold 'Em Navy
1937
The Sins of Rosanne
1920
Beyond
1921
Let's Fall in Love
1933
Yankee Pluck
1917
Risky Business
1926
The Mystery Girl
1918
A Woman's Way
1916
West Point Widow
1941
Rich Relations
1937
The 13th Commandment
1920
Thrill of Youth
1932
A City Sparrow
1920
The Princess from Hoboken
1927
Pilgrim's Progress
1912
Mardi Gras
1943
The Web of Desire
1917
The Volunteer
1917
The Price of Possession
1921
Young Mrs. Winthrop
1920
Hit the Deck
1929
The New South
1916
The Hidden Scar
1916
The Wolf
1914
For the Defense
1922
The Great Divide
1915
Stolen Hours
1918
Beyond the Wall
1916
Exit the Vamp
1921
Crooked Streets
1920
The Witch Woman
1918
A Sporting Chance
1919
Pettigrew's Girl
1919
Call of the Circus
1930
Women's Weapons
1918
The Bondage of Fear
1917
Friend John
1913
The Sap Takes a Wrap
1939
Men, Women, and Money
1919
Can a Woman Love Twice?
1923
Maggie Pepper
1919
His New York Wife
1926
The Remittance Woman
1923
The Sporting Duchess
1915
The Lion and the Mouse
1914
A Woman Went Forth
1915
His Brother's Wife
1916
Husband and Wife
1916
If I Were Queen
1922
Here Comes the Bride
1915
The House Next Door
1914
The Tout's Remembrance
1910
Wealth
1921
Man's Woman
1917
The Woman Beneath
1917
Sunny Side Up
1926
More Deadly Than the Male
1919
The Price Demanded
1913
The Dormant Power
1917
It All Depends
1915
The Stolen Paradise
1917
The Ladder of Lies
1920
The Fortune Hunter
1914
When the Earth Trembled
1913
Dollars and the Woman
1916
Just Maine Folks
1912
The Princess on Broadway
1927
His Soul Mate
1915
The Unmarried Husband
1915