Edith Thornton
actress
- Born:
- 1896-01-09, New York City, New York, USA
- Died:
- 1984-02-13, Glendale, California, USA
- Professions:
- actress
Biography
On a winter’s day in 1896, Edith Thornton drew her first breath amid the clang of Manhattan’s elevated trains. By twenty she had stepped before a camera, scolding wayward daughters in the 1916 cautionary tale *It May Be Your Daughter*. Eight years later she hurled herself down a flight of stairs in the cliff-hanger serial *The Fatal Plunge*, and in 1926 she sparked comic chaos as the pint-sized spitfire of *The Little Firebrand*. Between takes she swapped vows with action-leading-man Charles Hutchison. Eighty-eight springs after her New York beginning, she closed her eyes for the final time in Glendale, California, leaving behind flickering images that still jump off the silent screen.
Filmography
In the vault (4)
