Zena Virginia Keefe was an American

United States

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 actress in silent film

Silent film

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, active in the 1910s and 1920s.

Her film debut in short films occurred around 1911. By 1916, she was playing a substantial role in films including Her Maternal Right, and leading roles in films like Enlighten Thy Daughter

Enlighten Thy Daughter (1917 film)

Enlighten Thy Daughter is a 1917 silent film directed by Ivan Abramson.The exploitation film/sexual hygiene film warns against the dangers of premarital sex. Lillian Stevens is young woman who ends up having sex with Harold Winthrop after both are caught in an unexpected storm during a date. Of...

(1917). She continued to appear in at least a few movies every year, until her final appearance in Trouping with Ellen in 1924.

Keefe married William M. Brownell.

Keefe died on November 16, 1977 in Danvers, Massachusetts

Danvers, Massachusetts

Danvers is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. Located on the Danvers River near the northeastern coast of Massachusetts, Danvers is most widely known for its association with the 1692 Salem witch trials, and for its famous asylum, the Danvers State Hospital.-17th century:The land...

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Selected Filmography

• Her Maternal Right (1916) as Mary Winslow
• The Rail Rider (1916) as Mildred Barker
• Perils of Our Girl Reporters (1916)
• Enlighten Thy Daughter
  Enlighten Thy Daughter (1917 film)
  Enlighten Thy Daughter is a 1917 silent film directed by Ivan Abramson.The exploitation film/sexual hygiene film warns against the dangers of premarital sex. Lillian Stevens is young woman who ends up having sex with Harold Winthrop after both are caught in an unexpected storm during a date. Of...
  
  (1917) at Lillian Stevens
• An Amateur Widow (1919)
• Piccadilly Jim
  Piccadilly Jim
  Piccadilly Jim is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States on February 24, 1917 by Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, and in the United Kingdom in May 1918 by Herbert Jenkins, London...
  
  (1919)
• The Woman God Sent (1920)
• The Broken Silence (1922)
• Trouping with Ellen (1924)