Elsie Mackay (actress)
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Elsie Mackay
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Elsie Mackay (born c. 1900, date of death unknown) was an American
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 actress on Broadway
Broadway theatre
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 and films in the 1920s and 1930s.

Private life

Elsie Mackay became the second wife of actor Lionel Atwill
Lionel Atwill
Lionel Atwill was an English stage and film actor born in Croydon, London, England.He studied architecture before his stage debut at the Garrick Theatre, London in 1904. He become a star in Broadway theatre by 1918, and made his screen debut in 1919. He acted on the stage in Australia but was most...

 circa 1919/20, but they divorced in March 1928, after he had detective
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s raid an apartment on Manhattan's 68th Street in 1925, where Mackay was found with actor Max Montesole. One source claims that they had a son, John. A second source says that Atwill was survived by his son John in 1946. A third source is somewhat contradictory as Atwill's son John from his first marriage died in World War II
World War II
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.

Theatre and film

Elsie Mackay's theatre career included:
  • 'Grumpy' at Hollis Street Theatre, Boston. March 27, 1915-16.


Elsie Mackay's Broadway
Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...

 career included
  • 'Another Man's Shoes' 1918', where she replaced Alma Tell
    Alma Tell
    Alma Tell was an American stage and motion picture actress whose career in cinema began in 1915 and lasted into the talkie era of the early 1930s....

     as Lionel Atwill's leading woman.
  • 'As You Like It
    As You Like It
    As You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 or early 1600 and first published in the folio of 1623. The play's first performance is uncertain, though a performance at Wilton House in 1603 has been suggested as a possibility...

    ' (as Rosalind) 1919,
  • 'Clarence' (as Violet Pinney) 1919,
  • 'Poldekin' (as Maria) 1920,
  • 'Deburau' (as Marie Duplessis) 1921,
  • 'The White-Faced Fool', 1922
  • 'The Comedian' (as Jacqueline) 1923.


Elsie Mackay's film career included
  • Sylvia Scarlett
    Sylvia Scarlett
    Sylvia Scarlett is a 1935 romantic comedy film starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, based on The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett‎, a novel by Compton MacKenzie. Directed by George Cukor, it was notorious as one of the most famous unsuccessful movies of the 1930s...

    (1935)(uncredited)

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