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Edna Maison(1892-1946)

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Edna Maison
Edna Maison was born Carmen Edna Maisonave on August 17, 1892 (some sources say 1886) in San Francisco, California. Her father, Peter Maisonave, was a grocer who had immigrated from France. When she was a child her family moved to Los Angeles. Edna was educated the Immaculate Heart Academy. At the age of six she began her acting career with the Cooper Stock Company in Burbank. She was a very talented singer and performed with the California Opera Company and the Edgar Temple Opera Company. Edna also attended Woodbury business college and briefly worked as a stenographer. In September of 1911 she married Tom Poste, a clothing salesman. She was signed by Pathe Studios in 1912 and made her film debut in The Girl Sheriff. Over the next two yeas she appeared in more than thirty films including Misleading Evidence and A Double Reward (she was sometimes billed as Miss Mason).

Edna loved to work and she hated taking vacations. The beautiful brunette was offered a contract at Universal studios in 1914. She was given starring roles in the drams The Unmasking, Courage, and Their Island Of Happiness. Unfortunately her marriage to Tom became abusive and they separated several times. Edna divorced him in 1917 claiming he had knocked one of her teeth out. On November 28, 1917 she married film executive Beverly Griffith. Soon after she decided to retire from acting. Her final role was in the 1918 film The Mysterious Mr. Drama. She spent the next twenty years being a housewife and traveling around the world. As she got older she began suffering from various health problems. Her marriage to Beverly ended in 1938. Sadly on January 11, 1946 she died from heart disease at the age of fifty-three. She was buried at Calvary Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.
BornAugust 17, 1892
DiedJanuary 11, 1946(53)
BornAugust 17, 1892
DiedJanuary 11, 1946(53)
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Pauline Bush, James Robert Chandler, Lon Chaney, Edythe Chapman, William C. Dowlan, Murdock MacQuarrie, Edna Maison, James Neill, Frank Rice, and Richard Rosson in Richelieu (1914)
Richelieu
5.4
  • Marion de Lormer
  • 1914
A Double Reward
Short
  • Nellie Wayne
  • 1912
Love's Turmoil
Short
  • Dorothy Gray
  • 1917
Edna Maison in The Mysterious Mr. Browning (1918)
The Mysterious Mr. Browning
  • Undetermined Role
  • 1918

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  • Edna Maison in The Mysterious Mr. Browning (1918)
    The Mysterious Mr. Browning
    • Undetermined Role
    • 1918
  • Harry Holden, Louise Lovely, and Harry Mann in A Rich Man's Darling (1918)
    A Rich Man's Darling
    • Madame Ricardo
    • 1918
  • Love's Turmoil
    Short
    • Dorothy Gray
    • 1917
  • The Jewel of Death
    Short
    • The Nautch Girl
    • 1917
  • Mister Vampire
    6.5
    Short
    • The Wife
    • 1916
  • Through Baby's Voice
    Short
    • The Wife
    • 1916
  • The Dumb Bandit
    Short
    • The Sheepherder's Wife
    • 1916
  • The One Woman
    Short
    • Irene Forbes
    • 1916
  • After the Play
    Short
    • Princess Olga
    • 1916
  • Undine (1916)
    Undine
    4.4
    • Lady Berthelda
    • 1916
  • Anna Pavlova in The Dumb Girl of Portici (1916)
    The Dumb Girl of Portici
    6.4
    • Princess Elvira (as Miss Edna Maison)
    • 1916
  • A Daughter of Penance
    Short
    • Pia - the Waif
    • 1916
  • Buck Simmons, Puncher
    Short
    • Jessie Adams
    • 1916
  • Manna (1915)
    Manna
    Short
    • Nell
    • 1915
  • Was She a Vampire?
    Short
    • Enid
    • 1915

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  • Alternative names
    • Little Edna
  • Born
    • August 17, 1892
    • San Francisco, California, USA
  • Died
    • January 11, 1946
    • Hollywood, California, USA(heart disease)
  • Spouses
      Beverly GriffithNovember 27, 1917 - 1938 (divorced)
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    Brunette leading lady of the 1910's, with Universal.

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