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| Virginia Clark |
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born:
08 September 1899 New York City, New York, United States of America |
died:
22 April 1977 Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City, New York, United States of America (age 77) |
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Black-haired, gray-eyed American actress who had a brief film career in the 1910s before spending much of the next decade on the Broadway stage. Virginia's parents were born Julia (née Tracy, c.1873-1946, born in Bengal, India to Irish parents) and New Yorker James E. Clark (c. 1865-1909), who married 27 September 1894 in New York City. She had one older sister, Beatrice (Clark) Edmunds (1896-1968). Virginia was educated at the Convent of Notre Dame in New York. She began her stage career on the Keith vaudeville circuit, eventually playing child and ingenue leads for Universal, Edison, Selznick, Kleine, etc. and playing in comedies with Billy West, Oliver Hardy and Jimmy Aubrey. She also acted on Broadway throughout the 1920s. One Broadway show she was in, JIM JAM JEMS (Oct 1920 - Jan 1921), also included names such as Joe E. Brown, Frank Fay, Harry Langdon and Ned Sparks in its cast. In 1928, she married Aron Steuer (1898-1985), son of Max D. Steuer, a prominent criminal lawyer in New York; Aron himself became a New York state court judge. Virginia and Aron had three children: Max D. II (c. 1931), James Clark (c. 1934-1950) and Lynn (c. 1938). Tragically, 16-year old James hung himself from a tree outside Deerfield Academy in Deerfield, Massachusetts, where he was a sophomore student. After marrying Aron, her obituary notes, Virginia Clark Steuer "devoted much of her life to work in Roman Catholic charities." Husband Aron and remaining children Max and Lynn survived her when she passed. In her 1917 and 1918 Motion Picture Studio Directory entries, she claims a birth place of Seattle, Washington, USA. |
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Height: 5'4" |
Films listed on this page: 1 film with Babe Hardy. |
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