Stella Muir
English silent film actress
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Stella Muir (12 September 1900 – 3 June 1984), known as the English Mary Pickford was an early twentieth-century English film actress.[citation needed]
Born12 September 1900
Scarborough, North Riding of Yorkshire, England
Died3 June 1984 (aged 83)
Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England
OccupationActress
Stella Muir | |
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Stella Muir, from a 1919 advertisement | |
| Born | 12 September 1900 Scarborough, North Riding of Yorkshire, England |
| Died | 3 June 1984 (aged 83) Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England |
| Occupation | Actress |
Life
Born Edith Alice May Muir on 12 September 1900, in Scarborough, Yorkshire, she worked as factory girl in a clothing manufacturers in the York Street area of Leeds.[1] Muir had a short film career working in silent movies, initially in crowd work. She was credited in three films in 1919, a series of twelve shorts in 1920 and three more short films in 1922.
Muir died on 3 June 1984 in Marlow, Buckinghamshire.
Filmography
- The Heart of a Rose (1920) as Rose Fairlie[2][3]
- A Lass o' the Looms (1919)
- The Call of the Sea (1919)
- Film Pie No.s 1-12 (1920)
- The Old Actor’s Story (1922) as Nell
- The Magic Wand(1922)
- The Lights O' London (1922)