Mabel Poulton(1901-1994)

Mabel Poulton was born in London in 1901. She began working as a Stenographer and entered film as an actress by chance, her first role was in George Pearson's Le pantin meurtri (1920) starring Betty Balfour at Welsh-Pearson studios. Thereafter she starred in many silent film dramas, often playing mischievous or feisty roles, and perhaps best remembered in Adrian Brunel's The Constant Nymph (1928). Mabel was considered to be one of Britain's leading film actresses along with Betty Balfour until the advent of sound film which brought a premature end to Mabel's film career. She appeared in few talkies, her final film was a character role in a short drama Strange to Relate (1943). She died in London age 93.