Mammy Lou was apparently the oldest person to appear in a motion picture.

Life

In 1918, she appeared in the silent film The Glorious Adventure

The Glorious Adventure

The Glorious Adventure was an American silent film which was one of the last made in the Kinemacolor process.-Production background:...

, directed by Hobart Henley

Hobart Henley

Hobart Henley was an American silent film actor, director, and screenwriter....

, playing the part of The Mansion's Servant, the mansion being the Hermitage Plantation in Savannah, Georgia

Savannah, Georgia

Savannah is the largest city and the county seat of Chatham County, in the U.S. state of Georgia. Established in 1733, the city of Savannah was the colonial capital of the Province of Georgia and later the first state capital of Georgia. Today Savannah is an industrial center and an important...

. Mammy Lou claimed she was 114 years of age, and had been a slave in Savannah until Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union, while ending slavery, and...

abolished slavery.

If this legend is true, then Mammy Lou was the oldest person to appear in a feature film up until that time. This claim is unauthenticated though, and if proven, this would mean that Mammy Lou was around 60 years of age at the time she received her freedom from slavery.

External links

• Mammy Lou at the Internet Movie Database