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Vane Featherston
actress
- Birth name:
- Vane Featherstonhaugh
- Born:
- 1864-12-16, London, England, UK
- Died:
- 1948-11-06, Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, UK
- Professions:
- actress
Biography
Born within the frost-laced breath of a London December in 1864, Vane Featherston stepped onto the gas-lit boards of Victorian stages long before celluloid claimed her. Her sole surviving flicker—The Brass Bottle, released the same year Europe marched to war—still holds her laughing, wide-eyed performance like a genie bottled for posterity. She slipped away quietly on 6 November 1948 in Maidenhead, Berkshire, leaving behind one reel of film and a century’s worth of footlights.
