Ethel Clayton
Known for: Acting
From Wikipedia Ethel Clayton (November 8, 1882 — June 6, 1966) was an American actress of the silent film era. Clayton's screen debut came in 1909, in a short called Justified. She jockeyed her early film appearances with a burgeoning stage career. Her pretty blond looks were reminiscent of the famous Gibson Girl drawings by Charles Dana Gibson. On the stage she appeared mainly in musicals or musical reviews such as The Ziegfeld Follies of 1911. These musical appearances indicate a singing talent Clayton may have possessed but went unused in her many silent screen performances. In 1912 she appeared in "The Country Boy" on stage at the Lyceum Theatre in Rochester New York and made her feature length film debut in For the Love of a Girl. The film was directed by Barry O'Neil. She was cast with Harry Myers, Charles Arthur, and Peter Lang. She was also directed by William Demille, Robert G. Vignola, George Melford, Donald Crisp, Dallas M. Fitzgerald, and Clifford Sanforth. Like many silent film actors Clayton's career was hurt by the coming of sound to motion pictures. She continued her career in small parts in movies until she retired in 1948. Her screen credits number more than 180. Clayton was first married to actor-director Joseph Kaufman until his death in 1918 in the Spanish Influenza epidemic. She later married silent film actor and former star Ian Keith twice and they divorced twice. In both cases Clayton cited cruelty and excessive drinking. Clayton and Keith were first married in Minneapolis in 1928 and first separated on January 13, 1931. Ethel Clayton died on June 6, 1966 at St. John's Hospital in Oxnard, California, aged 83. She was buried at Ivy Lawn Memorial Park in Ventura, California. For her contributions to the motion picture industry, Ethel Clayton has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Filmography
Film
Make Way for Tomorrow
Customer (uncredited)
1937
Film
Waikiki Wedding
Tourist (uncredited)
1937
Film
The Major and the Minor
Ball Guest (uncredited)
1942
Film
You and Me
Employment Agency Clerk (uncredited)
1938
Film
Easy Living
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
1937
Film
Wealth
Mary McLeod
1921
Film
Wells Fargo
Pioneer Woman
1937
Film
The Wolf
Jules' Sweetheart
1914
Film
Dixie
Woman (uncredited)
1943
Film
If I Were King
Old Woman (uncredited)
1938
Film
Yankee Pluck
Polly Pollard
1917
Film
Mardi Gras
Mardi Gras Woman
1943
Film
His New York Wife
Alicia Duval
1926
Film
The All-American
Mrs. Bowen
1932
Film
Can a Woman Love Twice?
Mary Grant
1923
Film
Geronimo
1939
Film
Yours for the Asking
Casino Patron (uncredited)
1936
Film
The Accusing Finger
1936
Film
King of Chinatown
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
1939
Film
True to Life
Woman (uncredited)
1943
Film
Beyond the Blue Horizon
Guest at Chase's Residence (uncredited)
1942
Film
Men with Wings
Woman
1938
Film
Hollywood Boulevard
Undetermined Minor Role (uncredited)
1936
Film
West Point Widow
Nurse
1941
Film
Her Own Money
Mildred Carr
1922
Film
Artists & Models
Seamtress (uncredited)
1937
Film
The Woman Beneath
Betty Fairchild
1917
Film
The Bar-C Mystery
Mrs. Lane
1926
Film
A Sporting Chance
Carey Brent
1919
Film
Say It in French
Bit Part (uncredited)
1938
Film
Secrets
Audrey Carlton
1933
Film
The Bondage of Fear
Vesta Wheatley
1917
Film
Thrill of Youth
Alice Fenwick
1932
Film
Pilgrim's Progress
Elizabeth - Bunyon's Wife
1912
Film
Cocoanut Grove
Undetermined Role
1938
Film
The Lion and the Mouse
Shirley Rossmore / Sarah Green
1914
Film
New York Town
(uncredited)
1941
Film
The Remittance Woman
Marie Campbell
1923
The Dormant Power
1917
Film
The Crooked Circle
Yvonne
1932
Film
Pettigrew's Girl
Daisy Heath
1919
Film
Man's Woman
Violet Galloway
1917
Film
A Lady in Love
Barbara Martin
1920
Film
Cafe Society
Woman
1939
Film
Exclusive
1937
Film
Turn Off the Moon
Lady (uncredited)
1937
Film
Dollars and the Woman
Madge Hilyer
1916
Film
The Web of Desire
Grace Miller
1917
Film
Hit the Deck
Mrs. Payne
1929
The House Next Door
Ulrica Cotswolt
1914
His Soul Mate
Nellie - the Stenographer
1915
Film
Private Jones
Mrs. Winthrop (uncredited)
1933
Film
Love Thy Neighbor
Minor Role
1940
The Fortune Hunter
Betty Graham
1914
The Unmarried Husband
Nell - the Actress Wife
1915
Film
Let's Fall in Love
Star
1933
Film
The Sins of Rosanne
Roseanne Ozanne
1920
Film
Friend John
Ruth Rogers - the Quaker Maid
1913
Film
Exit the Vamp
Marion Shipley
1921
Film
Hold 'Em Navy
Girl
1937
Film
Risky Business
Mrs. Stoughton
1926
Film
Boy Trouble
1939
Call of the Circus
1930
Film
Lightnin'
Margaret Davis
1925
Film
Maggie Pepper
Maggie Pepper
1919
Film
Rich Relations
Mrs. Blair
1937
Film
The Cradle
Margaret Harvey
1922
Film
Crooked Streets
Gail Ellis
1920
The Sporting Duchess
Lady Muriel Desborough
1915
Film
The Volunteer
Self - Cameo Appearance
1917
Film
Sham
Katherine Van Riper
1921
Film
Sunny Side Up
Cissy Cason
1926
Film
The Princess from Hoboken
Mrs. O'Brien
1927
The Tout's Remembrance
Agnes Dudley - the Storekeeper's Daughter
1910
Film
Husband and Wife
Doris Baker
1916
Film
Men, Women, and Money
Marcel Middleton
1919
Film
For the Defense
Anne Woodstock
1922
Here Comes the Bride
Reed's Stenographer
1915
Film
The Sap Takes a Wrap
Mrs. Wallace
1939
Wings of Youth
Katherine Manners
1925
Film
A Woman's Way
Marion Livingston
1916
Film
The Mystery Girl
Countess Therese
1918
Film
Beyond the Wall
Helen Carlton
1916
Film
The Ladder of Lies
Edith Parrish
1920
Film
Beyond
Avis Langley
1921
Film
When the Earth Trembled
Dora Sims
1913
Film
Young Mrs. Winthrop
Constance Winthrop
1920
Film
More Deadly Than the Male
Helen O'Hara
1919
Film
The Witch Woman
Marie Beaupre
1918
Film
If I Were Queen
Ruth Townley
1922
Film
The 13th Commandment
Daphne Kip
1920
Film
The Great Divide
Ruth Jordan
1915
Film
The Stolen Paradise
1917
Film
The Price of Possession
Helen Carston
1921
It All Depends
Clara Dean
1915
Film
Stolen Hours
Diana Lester
1918
Film
The Hidden Scar
Janet Hall
1916
Film
The New South
Georgia Gwynne, as an adult
1916
Film
The Princess on Broadway
Mrs. Seymour
1927
Film
Women's Weapons
Anne Elliot
1918
A Woman Went Forth
Ethel Rogers
1915
Just Maine Folks
Ethel Walters
1912
His Brother's Wife
Helen Barton
1916
Film
A City Sparrow
Milly West
1920
The Price Demanded
Rose Delane
1913
Film
Merry Widower
The Hunter's Wife
1926