Throwback Thursday and Mary Eaton
Mary Easton was one of the “Seven Little
Eatons”, a famous performing group in the 1920s and 30s. She was born on
January 29, 1901 in Norfolk, Virginia and went on to achieve more fame than any
of her brothers or sisters.
She performed in the Ziegfeld Follies,
and was the alternate for Marilyn Miller, the biggest Ziegfeld star of the
time. Despite her success on Broadway, the development of talking pictures soon
lured her away to Hollywood.
She appeared in the Marx Brothers movie The Cocoanuts (1919), and then received
the leading role in Glorifying the
American Girl, also in 1929. Sadly, this became the pinnacle of her career,
and she, along with her brother Charles and sister Pearl, soon turned to
alcohol. Mary married three times – each husband was an alcoholic. She died of cirrhosis
on the liver on October 10, 1948,when she was only 47.
Her sister Peal was murdered in her
Manhattan Beach apartment in 1958, and the crime remains unsolved.
From the Big
Blue Book of Ballet Secrets
Ballet History Secret #315:
“Mary Eaton began her film career in a movie featuring
the Marx Brothers.”
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find opportunities to make someone smile, and to offer random acts of kindness
in everyday life.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
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