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Clara Kimball Young (born Edith Matilda Clara Kimball; September 6, 1890 – October 15, 1960) was an American film actress who was popular in the early silent film era.
Clara Kimball Young. Actress: The Common Law. Clara Kimball Young was born Clarisa Kimball on September 6, 1890, to Edward Kimball and the former Mrs. E.M. Kimball, traveling stock company actors with the Holden Co.
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Mar 3, 2024 · Clara Kimball Young was once the most popular movie star in America, and the queen of adult society dramas of the 1910s. But by the mid 1920s she was out of films, and when she came back in the 1930s it was largely in bit roles in B pictures.
film actress producer theatre actress. Worked In: United States. by Karen Ward Mahar. In 1916, Clara Kimball Young became only the second female film star, after Mary Pickford, to set up her own namesake production company: the Clara Kimball Young Film Corporation.
Born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1890, the daughter of a stagehand and an actress, Clara Kimball Young made her stage debut at age three. She became a skilled actress in vaudeville productions and stock and then began her association with the film company Vitagraph in 1909.
Dec 27, 2015 · Clara Kimball Young was a tallish woman of mature appearance, even in her earliest screen appearances. She had a plain but expressive face with large round dark eyes for which she was famed, and long dark hair.
Clara Kimball Young was an actress who had a successful Hollywood career. In 1909, she made her film acting debut with Vitagraph. She made her stage acting debut at the age of three.
