Wissenswertes

Sister of actor/director George Stewart and actress Lucille Lee Stewart.

Attended and graduated from Erasmus High School in Brooklyn, New York.

American silent screen star. Entered films with Vitagraph in Brooklyn at the age of sixteen. Romantically partnered on screen with Earle Williams. Had her own, short-lived production company with Louis B. Mayer around the time of her best-known film, Virtuous Wives (1918). Under contract with First National from 1919. Remained a major draw card with movie audiences throughout the 1920s. Retired in 1928 with the advent of sound as one of the wealthiest women in Hollywood.

According to an article in Pantomime magazine (October 12, 1921, p. 17), she owned an English bulldog named King Casey who appeared in at least one of the films she made with Edwin Carewe in 1921.

She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6724 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960.

Following her sudden death, she was interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California, in the Sanctuary of Liberty.