Beulah Poynter
actress, writer
- Birth name:
- Beulah Marguerite Poynter
- Born:
- 1886-06-06, St. Joseph, Missouri, USA
- Died:
- 1960-08-13, Manhasset, New York, USA
- Professions:
- actress, writer
Biography
A prairie thunderstorm welcomed Beulah Poynter into the world on 6 June 1886 in St. Joseph, Missouri, and the stage lights never let her go. By twenty-eight she had stepped before Pathé cameras to embody Lena Rivers (1914), followed swiftly by the heart-tugging Little Girl That He Forgot (1915) and the wish-fulfillment fable The Miracle of Money (1920). Between curtain calls she sharpened a second craft, sending her own stories onto Broadway and into magazines. Three husbands shared her spotlight: producer George Leffler, matinee idol John Bowers, and actor-manager Burton S. Nixon. On 13 August 1960 the footlights dimmed for the last time in Manhasset, New York, but the reels still spin, keeping Beulah forever alive in black-and-white.
