Anne Hartley Gilbert, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Anne Hartley Gilbert

British actress

Date of Birth: 21-Oct-1821

Place of Birth: Rochdale, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 02-Dec-1904

Profession: actor, stage actor

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Anne Hartley Gilbert

  • Anne Hartley Gilbert (October 21, 1821 – December 2, 1904) professionally billed as Mrs.
  • G.
  • H.
  • Gilbert was a British actress. She was born Anne Jane Hartley at Rochdale, Lancashire, England.
  • At fifteen she was a pupil at the ballet school connected with Her Majesty's Theatre, in the Haymarket, conducted by Paul Taglioni, and became a dancer.
  • Her first conspicuous appearance on stage was made as a dancer, in the Norwich theatrical circuit, England, in 1845.
  • In 1846 she married George H.
  • Gilbert (d.
  • 1866), a performer in the theatre company of which she was a member.
  • Together they filled many engagements in English theatres, moving to America in 1849.Her first 15 years in America were spent in inland cities such as Chicago, Cleveland, and Cincinnati.
  • Mrs Gilbert's first success in a speaking part was in 1857 as Wichavenda in John Brougham's Po-ca-hon-tas.One of the most brilliant and decisive successes of her professional life was gained at the Broadway Theatre where, on 5 August 1867, Mr.
  • and Mrs.
  • W.
  • J.
  • Florence presented Thomas William Robertson's comedy Caste, for the first time in America.
  • On leaving the Broadway she went to Daly's Fifth Avenue Theatre on Twenty-fourth Street with Robertson's comedy of Play.
  • The cast included E.
  • L.
  • Davenport, George Holland, William Davidge, J.
  • L.
  • Polk, Agnes Ethel, and George Clarke.
  • Mrs.
  • Gilbert played Mrs.
  • Kinpeck.
  • For many years she played opposite James Lewis as his "wife", or playing old women's parts, in which she had no equal.After Mr.
  • Daly's death in 1899 she came under Charles Frohman's management and later became a member of Annie Russell's company.
  • On October 24, 1904, at the New Lyceum Theatre, Mrs.
  • Gilbert made her first appearance as a star, being then in the eighty-second year of her age, in a play, by Clyde Fitch, called Granny with a young Marie Doro in one of her earliest roles.
  • Granny was announced as her farewell role and she read a special poem composed by Fitch at the end of each performance.
  • Her final New York appearance occurred at the Lyceum on November 12, 1904.
  • She acted for fifty-four years (after five years as a dancer), and she remained in active employment to the last.
  • Mrs Gilbert was uniquely respected and popular, both with audiences and behind the footlights.
  • She performed last on December 1 three days after Granny opened in Chicago, and died there on the following day from a brain hemorrhage.

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