Anne Cornwall
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Anne Cornwall was an American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 actress. She performed for forty years in many early silent film
Silent film
A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...

 productions starting in 1918, and later in talkies, until 1959. She was first married to writer/director Charles Maigne
Charles Maigne
Charles Maigne was an American screenwriter and film director of the silent era. He wrote for 32 films between 1916 and 1928...

, then later to Los Angeles Engineer Ellis Wing Taylor. Taylor fathered her only child, Peter.

In 1925, Anne was one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars
WAMPAS Baby Stars
The WAMPAS Baby Stars was a promotional campaign sponsored by the Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers in the United States which honored thirteen young women each year whom they believed to be on the threshold of movie stardom. They were selected from 1922 to 1934, and annual...

.

Selected filmography

  • Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
    Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
    Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is a 1939 American drama film starring Jean Arthur and James Stewart about one man's effect on American politics. It was directed by Frank Capra and written by Sidney Buchman, based on Lewis R. Foster's unpublished story. Mr...

    (1939)
  • Men O' War
    Men O' War
    -Plot:The film opens with a montage of scenes in a park; canoes on a lake, a band playing in a bandstand, before showing us a washerwoman walking along one of the paths in the park with a basket of laundry on her shoulder. A ladies' undergarment falls from the basket onto a shrub...

    (1929) (Laurel & Hardy movie)
  • College
    College (1927 film)
    College is a 1927 comedy-drama silent film directed by James W. Horne and Buster Keaton, and starring Buster Keaton, Anne Cornwall, and Harold Goodwin.-Plot:...

    (1927) (Buster Keaton's girlfriend)
  • Arizona Express
    Arizona Express
    Arizona Express is a 1924 silent American drama film directed by Tom Buckingham and starring Evelyn Brent. Prints of the film survive in the Museum of Modern Art.- Cast :* Pauline Starke as Katherine Keith* Evelyn Brent as Lola Nichols...

    (1924)
  • To Have and to Hold
    To Have and to Hold
    -Screen adaptations:The book has been twice adapted to the screen. The first silent film in 1916 was made by Jesse L. Lasky’s Famous Players company. It was directed by George Melford and starred Wallace Reid and Mae Murray. In 1922, Lasky did a remake, this time starring Bert Lytell and Betty...

    (1922)
  • Her Gilded Cage
    Her Gilded Cage
    Her Gilded Cage is a 1922 silent drama film directed by Sam Wood and starring Gloria Swanson. It is a lost film.-Cast:* Gloria Swanson - Suzanne Ornoff* David Powell - Arnold Pell* Harrison Ford - Lawrence Pell* Anne Cornwall - Jacqueline Ornoff...

    (1922)

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