Also Known As: Catherine Cassidy
Biography: The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cassidy, Catherine Calvert was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. She made her stage debut in the play Brown of Harvard in September 1908, in Albany, New York. On Broadway, she portrayed Laura Moore in The Deep Purple (1911), May Joyce in The Escape (1913), and Dona Sol in Blood and Sand (1921). After many years' experience onstage in productions including The Deep Purple (a play by her future husband, Paul Armstrong), in 1910, she entered films via Keeney Pictures Corporation in A Romance of the Underworld (1918; based on a play in which she had appeared onstage). Other films in which she appeared include Marriage, Out of the Night, Career of Katherine Bush, Marriage for Convenience, and Fires of Faith. Around 1920 she was a star of Vitagraph Studios. Calvert married Paul Armstrong in New Haven in 1913. They remained wed until his death in 1915. She later married Canadian grain exporter George A. Carruthers. In 1971, Calvert died in Uniondale, New York, at age 80.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Birthday: April 20, 1890
Deathday: January 18, 1971
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Gender: Female
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Overview: A jealous girl compromises a Lord's gypsy wife but confesses when the gypsy cures her baby's diphtheria.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-01
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-01
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-08-11
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Overview: Convent raised Doris Elliott moves to New York to live with her brother Richard not knowing that he is part of a drug trafficking ring controlled by unscrupulous ward boss Michael O'Leary. At first Doris remains ignorant of the pervasiveness of crime and corruption in the Lower East Side until her friend, Mamie Bronson, whose brother, "Dopey Benny," has fallen victim to drugs, confesses that O'Leary has raped her. When O'Leary breaks into their home and attempts to rape her as well, he is shot when Richard unexpectedly arrives. Finding O'Leary dead and Richard unconscious, the police arrest Doris, and she is tried for murder. Defense lawyer Thomas McDonald, who has been working to expose the politician, is losing his case when Dopey Benny testifies that he killed O'Leary to avenge his sister's assault. Acquitted Doris is now free to marry Thomas.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-06-30
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Overview: The Mannings are a professional couple--she's a doctor, he's a lawyer--who are so absorbed in their careers that they have little time for their young daughter Louise, who is basically left to be raised by their servants. They're shaken out of their single-minded pursuit of their careers when Louise--feeling neglected, unloved and unhappy--runs away with a young newsboy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-06-04
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Overview: Andrew Gibson inherits problems when his father dies and leaves shares of his piano manufacturing business to his workmen. To add to his troubles, Andrew's girl, Nora Gorodna, is being pursued by José Ferra, one of the workmen; and Lila Normand, a society girl, tricks Andrew into proposing.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-07-01
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-03
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-07-02
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-08-13
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-03
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-10
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-10-01
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-11-25
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-02-03
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-08-03
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-08-03
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-05-01
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-09-18
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-12-31
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-07-01
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-01
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