Amelia Summerville
Birthday: 1862-10-13
Place of Birth: County Kildare, Ireland
Biography: From Wikipedia Amelia Summerville (1862–1934), born Amelia Shaw, was an Irish-born American stage and silent film actress. Summerville was born in County Kildare, Ireland and migrated to Toronto, Canada as a child. She first appeared on stage at the age of 7 in an operetta in Toronto. In 1884, Summerville appeared in her first leading role in the play Adonis. She originated the role of Rosetta, the Mountain Maid. Summerville appeared in fourteen Broadway plays from 1899 to 1925. She also performed in silent films during the 1910s and 1920s.
Movies
Mrs. Dane's Defense
An Englishwoman misbehaves in Canada, driving a traveling companion to suicide and bearing a secret ...
View Movie
The Witness for the Defense
Stella Derrick and Dick Hazelwood love each other, but their families want them to make better finan...
View Movie
Romola
In Renaissance Florence, a Florentine trader meets a shipwrecked stranger, who introduces himself as...
View Movie
The Great Deception
Cyril Mansfield, a handsome young Englishman, is associated with the German Secret Service as a spy ...
View Movie
Getting Mary Married
A young woman must resist the charms of a handsome stranger and stay single if she wants to inherit ...
View Movie
April Folly
April Poole (Davies), a young writer in love with publisher Kerry Sarle (Tearle), visits the office ...
View Movie
Romance
A young man planning to marry receives a cautionary tale from his bishop based on the sad tale of th...
View Movie
How Could You, Caroline?
Caroline Rogers, a spirited young girl with a taste for highly romantic novels, comes home from boar...
View Movie
Just Out of College
Edward Swinger contrives to win the hand of the lovely Caroline Pickering by selling her father his ...
View Movie
My Little Sister
A woman writes about her sister's tragedy, vowing to help others in similar situations: Because Bett...
View Movie