Mabel "Nell" Taliaferro was an American

United States

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 stage, and a silent screen actress, known as the Sweetheart of American Movies. Taliaferro was descended on her father's side from one of the early families who settled in Virginia in the 17th century, the Taliaferros, whose roots are in northern Italy

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Born as Maybelle Evelyn Taliaferro in New York City

New York City

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 and raised in Richmond, Virginia

Richmond, Virginia

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, in 1912 her career began with the Selig Studios film version of Cinderella co-starring her then husband Thomas Carrigan. She continued performing in films through her retirement in 1921. In 1940, she appeared in her final picture, My Love Came Back. Taliaferro was a sister of film and stage actress Edith Taliaferro

Edith Taliaferro

Edith Taliaferro was a popular Broadway actress of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She was active on the stage until 1935 and she had roles in three silent films. She is best known for her 1913 performance in Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm...

 and the cousin of actress Bessie Barriscale

Bessie Barriscale

Bessie Barriscale was an American silent film and stage actress, and a major star for producer Thomas Ince in the late 1910s.-Early life and career:...

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Filmography

• My Love Came Back (1940)
• Alexander Hamilton (1924)
• The Rich Slave (1921)
• Sentimental Tommy
  Sentimental Tommy (1921 film)
  Sentimental Tommy is a silent film directed by John S. Robertson which has Mary Astor in one of her earliest roles, although her scenes were deleted before release. The film, which made a star of Gareth Hughes, is now considered a lost film.-Cast:...
  
  (1921)
• The Mite of Love (1919)
• Draft 258 (1917)
• Peggy Leads the Way (1917)
• The Jury of Fate
  The Jury of Fate
  -Cast:* William Sherwood - Donald Duncan* Mabel Taliaferro - Jaques Jeanne* Frank Bennett - François Leblanc * Charles Fang - Ching* Albert Tavernier - Henri Labordie* Bradley Barker - Louis Hebert* H. F. Webber - Duval Hebert...
  
  (1917)
• Peggy, the Will O' the Wisp
  Peggy, the Will O' the Wisp
  Peggy, the Will O' the Wisp is a 1917 drama film directed by Tod Browning.-Cast:* Mabel Taliaferro - Peggy Desmond* Thomas Carrigan - Captain Neil Dacey * William J. Gross - Anthony Desmond...
  
  (1917)
• The Barricade (1917)
• A Wife by Proxy (1917)
• The Sunbeam (1916)
• The Dawn of Love (1916)
• God's Half Acre (1916)
• Snowbird (1916)
• Her Great Price (1916)
• The Three of Us (1914)
• The Sunbeam (1912)
• Cinderella (1911; released January 1, 1912)

Stageplay

• Springtime Folly (1951)
• Bloomer Girl (1946)
• Victory Belles (1944)
• George Washington Slept Here (1941)
• Back Fire (1932)
• The Piper (1920)
• Luck in Pawn (1919)
• Young Wisdom (1914)
• The Call of the Cricket (1910)
• Springtime (1909)
• Polly of the Circus (1908)
• Pippa Passes (1906)
• You Never Can Tell (1905)
• Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1905)
• The Land of Heart's Desire (1903)
• The Consul (1903)
• The Little Princess (1903)
• An American Invasion (1902)
• The Price of Peace (1901)
• Lost River (1900)
• Children of the Ghetto (1899)

TV

• The De Santre Story (1956)
• The Hat from Hangtown (1952)
• Mistress Sims Inherits (1949)
• You Can't Take It with You (1945)

External links

• Mabel Taliaferro at IBDb.com
• Mabel Taliaferro portrait gallery of Mabel Taliaferro NY Public Library
• portrait of Mabel Taliaferro 1910s(moviecard)