Mabel Withee
American actress (c. 1897–1952)
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Mabel Withee (c. 1897 – November 3, 1952) was an American actress on stage and in silent film.
Mabel Withee | |
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Mabel Withee, from a 1919 publication | |
| Born | c. 1897 Detroit, Michigan, U.S. |
| Died | November 3, 1952 (aged 54-55) Bayside, Queens, New York City, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Spouses | |
| Children | 1 |
Early life
Withee was born in Detroit, Michigan, the daughter of Leonard Withee.[1]
Career
Withee's Broadway appearances were mainly in musical comedies and revues, including roles in Sinbad (1918–1919, with Al Jolson and Kitty Doner),[2] George White's Scandals (1919), Just a Minute (1919), The Rose Girl (1921, the first show at the Ambassador Theatre),[3] Sonny (1921), The Rose of Stanboul (1922),[4] The World We Live In (1922–1923), Lady Butterfly (1923), Dew Drop Inn (1923), Artists and Models (1924–1925), The Cocoanuts (1925–1926, with the Marx Brothers).[5][6] She also starred in Mary Ann (1927) on vaudeville.[7][8]
She acted in one silent film, Once to Every Man (1918).[9]
Theatre critic George Jean Nathan considered Withee to have "the most beautiful legs in the world".[10] She retired from show business in 1928, when she married her second husband.[11]
Personal life
Withee was "wooed" by Egyptian prince Mohammed Ali Ibrahim in 1922, but rejected his proposal of marriage.[12] She married real estate broker Herman Leon Sarshik in 1926.[1] She asked for the marriage to be annulled on the basis of fraud in 1928.[13] She married again, to producer Larry Puck, later that year, and through him was the sister-in-law of actress Eva Puck. She had one son, Emmett Puck. She died in 1952, in her mid-fifties, in Bayside, Queens.[11][14]
