Ramona Langley

A native of Los Angeles, Ramona was born in 1893 to John Langley and Mary Niles.^[4] She would later tell reporters she was named after Helen Hunt Jackson's novel Ramona.^[1]

In 1913, the same year she began appearing in one-reel films for the Nestor Comedy Company, she married industrialist Clarence English, and the pair relocated to a large ranch near Chihuahua, Mexico. Less than a year later, the pair evacuated their home and returned to Hollywood as a result of the Mexican Border War.^[1]

Ramona was severely injured in 1914 on the set of the Universal Pictures film, She Was Only a Working Girl, after she and her male co-stars fell on a slippery concrete floor. Crushed under the weight of the men, Ramona suffered major internal injuries and was reportedly urged by director Al Christie to continue the shoot.^[5] Despite lingering injuries that kept her in a sanatorium bed for months, the studio refused to compensate her for her suffering, and she was replaced in the finished film by Victoria Forde.^[5][6]

After her recovery, she retired from filmmaking and focused on raising her three children. Eventually, in 1938, she and English separated.^[7] That same year, Langley married her second husband, politician Clare Woolwine, in Lake Tahoe.^[8] Woolwine died a year later after suffering a heart attack.^[9]

Ramona died on November 11, 1983, in Los Angeles.

• Scooped by a Hencoop (1914)
• His Royal Pants (1914)
• Twixt Love and Flour (1914)
• When Billy Proposed (1914)
• Snobbery (1914)
• Cupid's Close Shave (1914)
• When Ursus Threw the Bull (1914)
• And the Villain Still Pursued Her (1914)
• A Tale of the West (1914)
• Teaching Dad a Lesson (1913)
• A Woman's Way (1913)
• Her Friend, the Butler (1913)
• Locked Out at Twelve (1913)
• When He Lost to Win (1913)
• An Elephant on His Hands (1913)
• The Golden Princess Mine (1913)
• Love, Luck and a Paint Brush (1913)
• His Wife's Burglar (1913)
• Western Hearts (1913)
• Curses! Said the Villain (1913)
• A Man of the People (1913)
• What the Wild Waves Did (1913)
• Under Western Skies (1913)
• Their Two Kids (1913)
• His Crazy Job (1913)
• The Battle of Bull Con (1913)
• The Girl Ranchers (1913)
• Won by a Skirt (1913)
• The Trail of the Serpent (1913)
• Cupid's Bad Aim (1913)
• Weighed in the Balance (1913)
• Some Runner (1913)
• Hawkeye to the Rescue (1913)
• The Pretender (1913)