HOLLYWOOD SILENT FILM ACTRESS CLARA KIMBALL YOUNG BORN 1890 SEPTEMBER 6
HOLLYWOOD SILENT FILM ACTRESS CLARA KIMBALL YOUNG BORN 1890 SEPTEMBER 6 Clara Kimball Young (September 6, 1890 – October 15, 1960)[1] was an American film actress, who was highly regarded and publicly popular in the early silent film era. Early life[edit] Clarisa Kimball was born in Chicago to Edward M. and Pauline (née Maddern) Kimball, travelling stock actors. She made her stage debut at the age of three, and throughout her early childhood travelled with her parents and acted with their theater company. She attended St. Francis Xavier Academy, Chicago. Afterwards she was hired into a stock company and resumed her stage career, travelling extensively through the United States and playing various small town theaters.[2] Early in her career she met and married a fellow stock company and known Broadway actor named James Young. Young's previous wife had been the songwriter/lyricist Rida Johnson Young. After sending a photograph to Vitagraph St...