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Doris Keane was an American actress.
She was born in the USA but educated largely in
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.
Her first professional role was in
Whitewashing Julia in 1903. This was a small role but she went on to play leading roles in
The Happy Marriage in 1909 and
The Lights o' London in 1911.
In 1913, she played Margherita Cavallini in
Edward SheldonEdward Brewster Sheldon was an American dramatist. His plays include Salvation Nell and Romance , which was made into a motion picture with Greta Garbo....
's
Romance. Her leading man in this long running play was William Courtenay who played the part of a priest. Sheldon had originally offered the male lead to his friend
John BarrymoreJohn Sidney Blyth , better known as John Barrymore, was an acclaimed American actor. He first gained fame as a handsome stage actor in light comedy, then high drama and culminating in groundbreaking portrayals in Shakespearean plays Hamlet and Richard III...
. Barrymore turned it down preferring to still do comedies. Sheldon reportedly fell in love with her and yearned for her all his life. She played this part in
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and Europe for the next five years and returned in revivals regularly during the 1920s. In 1920, she made a silent film of
Romance distributed by the then newly formed
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. Her male lead in the film was Norman Trevor. She also played Catherine the Great in
Czarina in 1922 after Sheldon had revised the play especially for her.
She married the much younger actor
Basil SydneyBasil Sydney was an English actor who made over fifty screen appearances, most memorably as Claudius in Laurence Olivier's 1948 film of Hamlet. He also appeared in classic films like Treasure Island , Ivanhoe and Around the World in Eighty Days , but the focus of his career was the legitimate...
in 1918; they divorced in 1925. She had one child, a daughter Ronda, from a previous relationship before her marriage to Basil Sydney. Ronda married a man by the name of Munschenheim. Keane died in 1945 and was cremated.
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