Ethyle Cooke
actress
- Born:
- 1880-08-04, Lynn, Massachusetts, USA
- Died:
- 1949-04-20, Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA
- Professions:
- actress
Biography
Lynn, Massachusetts, greeted the world with Ethyle Cooke on 4 August 1880, and from that day forward the stage—and later the screen—had a quietly magnetic presence. She slipped into Shakespeare’s world as Jessica in the 1912 *Merchant of Venice*, conjured art-world romance in 1915’s *Inspiration*, and wrangled mischief opposite her real-life partner in 1917’s *Patsy*. Off-camera, her leading man remained Harry Benham, the actor who shared both her marquee and her heart. Sixty-eight springs after her first cry in Lynn, she drew her final breath in Waukesha, Wisconsin, on 20 April 1949.
