Constance Purdy

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Constance Purdy
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St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
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Los Angeles, California, U.S.
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Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California
OccupationTemplate:Pluralize from textActress
Years active1934–1952
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Constance Purdy (August 3, 1887 – April 1, 1960) was an American film actress and classical music performer.[1]

Early life

Purdy was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on August 3, 1887, to American railroad executive Thomas C. Purdy and Janet Campbell Purdy.[2] As a young girl she reportedly sang for Tsar Nicholas in Russia. At the age of 16 Purdy studied voice in Paris, rooming with future opera diva and film actress Geraldine Farrar,[3] before embarking on a career as a contralto singer, lecturer, and translator of traditional Russian songs. Her friend and personal representative Mabel F. Hammond,[4] often accompanied her on piano.[5]

Career

Purdy did not enter into film acting until 1934, with her first appearance, uncredited, being in the film Pursued starring Rosemary Ames. The 1930s saw her in four film appearances, only one of which was credited, that being in the 1935 film Thunder in the Night starring Edmund Lowe and Karen Morley. Most of her film appearances were in the 1940s, playing fifty different roles from 1940 to 1949, of which only six were credited. During the 1950s she had four film appearances, one of which was credited, and one television series appearance. She appeared in a 1951 episode of the TV series The Lone Ranger entitled "Trouble at Black Rock." During this period Purdy remained active in music circles, teaming up with Grace Widney Mabee,[6] chair of the National Film Music Council, to launch Film Music Notes,[7] and serving as the journal's co-editor.[8][9]

Death

Purdy retired after 1952, and was living in Los Angeles at the time of her death on April 1, 1960, aged 72. Her gravesite is at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale.[10]

Partial filmography

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Campbell, Viola Vaille (Barnes) (1914). "An Exponent of American and Russian Songs". The Musical Monitor. 4. Mrs David Allen Campbell, Publisher: 316.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Who's Who in Railroading in North America. Vol. 96. Simmons-Boardman. 1906. p. 486.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Opera Star, 1903 S.B. Queen, At Opening of Civic Light Opera". CDNC. San Bernardino County. May 10, 1959. p. 37.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.National Federation of Music Clubs, ed. (1916). "Constance Purdy and Russian Music". The Musical Monitor. 6. Mrs David Allen Campbell, Publisher: 14, 233.
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Constance Purdy (1916). "Costume Recital". The Musical Monitor. 6. Mrs David Allen Campbell, Publisher: 366.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Grace Widney Mabee". Pacific Coast Musical Review. 42. A Metzger: 140. 1922.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Bulletin Board". Music Educators Journal. 33 (1): 12–16. 1946. doi:10.2307/3388425. JSTOR 3388425. S2CID 221047389.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Film Music Notes. Vol. IX. New York. 1949. pp. 5ff.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Jack Alicoate, ed. (1945). The 1945 Film Daily Year Book of Motion Pictures. The Film Daily Year Book. Vol. 27 (Annual ed.). p. 746.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Ellenberger, Allan R. (2001). Celebrities in Los Angeles Cemeteries: A Directory. McFarland. pp. 79–80. ISBN 9780786450190. Retrieved February 5, 2018.

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