Lucy Cotton
actress
- Born:
- 1895-08-29, Houston, Texas, USA
- Died:
- 1948-12-12, Miami Beach, Florida, USA
- Professions:
- actress
Biography
Houston, 29 August 1895: a restless starlet-to-be draws her first breath. By twenty, Lucy Cotton had stepped before the cameras in Life Without Soul, the screen still cool from the newborn art of feature film. Four quick years later she stoked hearts in The Miracle of Love, and in 1920 closed her silent-era run with Blind Love, leaving audiences a final flicker of her wide-eyed spell. Off-screen, she collected surnames the way other women collected pearls. A Russian prince, Vladimir Eristavi-Tchitcherine, opened the matrimonial credits; shipping heir William M. F. Magraw followed, then banker Charles Hann Jr., Army officer Col. Lytton Gray Ament, and finally press magnate Edward Russell Thomas. Each marriage a headline, each divorce a closing curtain. She exited the world as brightly as she had lit it up, dying on 12 December 1948 in Miami Beach, Florida—far from Texas dust yet still beneath the Southern sun.
