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Manora Thew
actress
- Birth name:
- Manora Alice Thew
- Born:
- 1891-04-12, Negapatam, Madras, India
- Died:
- 1987-04-12, Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
- Professions:
- actress
Biography
April 12, 1891: a baby girl drew her first breath in the steamy port of Negapatam, Madras, and the languid Indian dawn christened her Manora Thew. By the late-1910s that same name flickered across British cinema screens like a conjurer’s lantern—first in The Man and the Moment (1918), then twice more in 1919 with The Toilers and Splendid Folly, each performance stitching her into the fabric of silent-era memory. Exactly sixty-six springs after her arrival in the world, on her birthday in 1987, she closed her eyes for the last time in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, leaving the Thames valley hush to echo a life that had traveled from colonial India to the nascent dream factories of London and back to an English riverside town.
