Edna Munsey

Munsey was an actress and singer in several musicals and comedies,^[5] including The Gingerbread Man (1915), The Little Cafe (1915), The Only Girl (1915–1916) by Victor Herbert,^[2] and Rock-a-Bye Baby (1918) with music by Jerome Kern.^[6][7] She was also seen on the vaudeville stage^[8] in the United States and Canada.^[1][9] She appeared in one silent film, Patsy (1917), starring June Caprice.^[10] Of her soprano singing voice, a Chicago critic hailed her sweet tone but criticized her enunciation: "You can't tell whether Edna is singing in French, Latin or Greek," he complained, adding "but who cared, not on a sweltering, accursed day like yesterday, anyhow."^[11]

She traveled with her mother as her chaperone and companion during her career.^[12] "It is strange what erroneous ideas most people have of the life of a girl who is really in earnest on the stage," she commented in a 1915 interview, in which she described a life of discipline and sacrifice for her career.^[13]

She married Thomas Dillon, a steel company executive. She died in 1951 in New York.^[14]

• Edna Munsey at IMDb
• Edna Munsey at the Internet Broadway Database