Marguerite Gale

Biography

Marguerite Gale first drew breath in 1885, stepping onto a stage that would soon stretch from nickelodeons to feature reels. Within a year of the medium’s adolescence she faced The Yellow Menace (1916), survived How Molly Malone Made Good (1915), and defied The Man Hater (1917), sealing her silhouette into the flickering birth of American film. Six decades later, on 20 August 1948, the final curtain fell in Amsterdam, New York, quieting a voice that had once lived only in light and shadow.