Barbara Castleton was an American silent film

Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...

 actress. Castleton appeared in motion pictures from 1914 through 1923, accumulating twenty-eight screen credits.

Career

Born in Little Rock, Arkansas

Little Rock, Arkansas

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, Castleton was one of the lower echelon stars who made films for Samuel Goldwyn Studio

Samuel Goldwyn Studio

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, along with Cullen Landis

Cullen Landis

Cullen Landis was an American motion picture actor and director whose career began in the early years of the silent film era.-Biography:...

, James Kirkwood

James Kirkwood, Sr.

James Kirkwood, Sr. was an American actor and director....

, and Rowland Lee

Rowland Lee

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. The company's major stars were Madge Kennedy

Madge Kennedy

Madge Kennedy was a movie and stage actress of the silent film era....

, Geraldine Farrar

Geraldine Farrar

Geraldine Farrar was an American soprano opera singer and film actress, noted for her beauty, acting ability, and "the intimate timbre of her voice." She had a large following among young women, who were nicknamed "Gerry-flappers".- Early life and opera career :Farrar was born in Melrose,...

, Will Rogers

Will Rogers

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, and Tom Moore. Her first performance as a film actress came in The Ordeal (1914). She had the lead in Branding Iron (1920), a film directed by Reginald Barker.

Personal life and death

Her first husband was George W. Zimmerman, an attorney from Vancouver, British Columbia. Castleton won a divorce suit from Zimmerman in October 1921 in Reno, Nevada

Reno, Nevada

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. She contended that he gambled and lived beyond his income. The decree was granted on ground of cruelty. Castleton wed playwright Willard Mack

Willard Mack

Willard Mack was a Canadian-born actor, director, and playwright.Born Charles McLaughlin, in Morrisburg, Ontario, at an early age his family moved to Brooklyn, New York. After two years, they relocated to Cedar Rapids, Iowa where McLaughlin finished high school...

 in June 1920.

Castleton was a collector of furniture. In March 1923 she purchased a pair of early seventeenth century blue velvet armchairs with Van Dyke fringe and an octagonal walnut center table with an elaborate carved base, also from the seventeenth century. The pieces were purchased at the Dabissi sale of fine old furniture held at the American Art Galleries in New York City

New York City

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.

Castleton died in Boca Raton, Florida

Boca Raton, Florida

Boca Raton is a city in Palm Beach County, Florida, USA, incorporated in May 1925. In the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 74,764; the 2006 population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau was 86,396. However, the majority of the people under the postal address of Boca Raton, about...

 in 1978.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1914	The Ordeal		Alternative title: The Mothers of Liberty
1916	A Daughter of the Gods A Daughter of the Gods A Daughter of the Gods is a silent film that featured Australian swimming star Annette Kellerman.The film was controversial because of the sequences of what was regarded as superfluous nudity by the main character, Nydia, played by Kellerman...
1917	For the Freedom of the World	Betty Milburn
	Her Good Name	Agnes Gurnee
	God's Man	Bertie
	On Trial	Mrs. Robert Strickland
	Parentage	Agnes Melton
	Sins of Ambition	Ruth Maxwell
1918	Empty Pockets	Muriel Schuyler
	Vengeance	Lady Elsie Drillingcourt
	The Heart of a Girl	Betty Lansing
	Heredity	Nedda Trevor, as an adult	Alternative title: The Blood of the Trevors
	Just Sylvia	Sylvia
1919	Peg o' My Heart	Ethel Chicester
	What Love Forgives
	The Silver King
	The Rough Neck	Frances	Alternative title: The Roughneck
	The Man Who Turned White
	Dangerous Hours Dangerous Hours Dangerous Hours is a 1919 silent drama film directed by Fred Niblo. Prints of the film survive in the UCLA Film and Television Archive. It premiered in February 1920.The film was based on a short story published in the Saturday Evening Post...	May Weston
1920	Dangerous Days	Audrey Valentine
	Out of the Storm	Margaret Hill
	The Branding Iron	Joan Carver
1921	The Child Thou Gavest Me	Norma Huntley
1922	False Fronts	Helen Baxter
	What's Wrong with the Women? What's Wrong with the Women? What's Wrong with the Women? is a silent film Jazz Age drama, directed by Roy William Neill, produced by Daniel Carson Goodman, and starring Barbara Castleton and Constance Bennett....	Janet Lee
	The Streets of New York	Lucy Bloodgood
	My Friend the Devil	Anna Ryder
1923	The Net	Allayne Norman

External links

• Barbara Castleton photo at NYP Library