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Catherine Calvert (born Catherine Cassidy, April 20, 1890 – January 18, 1971) was an American actress.

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Catherine Calvert
From Who's Who on the Screen, 1920
Born	Catherine Cassidy (1890-04-20)April 20, 1890 Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Died	January 18, 1971(1971-01-18) (aged 80) Uniondale, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Spouse(s)	Paul Armstrong ​ ​ (m. 1913; died 1915)​ George A. Carruthers ​ ​ (m. 1925; died 1952)​
Children	1

Biography

The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cassidy,[1] Catherine Calvert was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland.[2]

She made her stage debut in the play Brown of Harvard in September 1908, in Albany, New York.[2] On Broadway, she portrayed Laura Moore in The Deep Purple (1911), May Joyce in The Escape (1913), and Dona Sol in Blood and Sand (1921).[3]

After many years' experience onstage in productions including The Deep Purple (a play by her future husband, Paul Armstrong), in 1910, she entered films via Keeney Pictures Corporation in A Romance of the Underworld (1918; based on a play in which she had appeared onstage).[4]

Other films in which she appeared include Marriage, Out of the Night, Career of Katherine Bush, Marriage for Convenience, and Fires of Faith.[4] Around 1920 she was a star of Vitagraph Studios.[4]

Calvert married Armstrong in New Haven in 1913.[5] They remained wed until his death in 1915.[1] She later married Canadian grain exporter George A. Carruthers.[6]

In 1971, Calvert died in Uniondale, New York, at age 80.[6]

Filmography

• Partners (1916) (*short)
• House of Cards (1917)
• The Peddler (1917))
• Think It Over (1917)
• Behind the Mask (1917)
• Outcast (1917)
• The Uphill Path (1918)
• A Romance of the Underworld (1918)
• Out of the Night (1918)
• Marriage (1918)
• Marriage For Convenience (1919)
• Fires of Faith (1919)
• The Career of Katherine Bush (1919)
• Dead Men Tell No Tales (1920)
• The Heart of Maryland (1921)
• You Find It Everywhere (1921)
• Moral Fibre (1921)
• The Green Caravan (1922)
• That Woman (1922)
• The Indian Love Lyrics (1923)
• Out to Win (1923)

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Catherine Calvert.

• Catherine Calvert at IMDb 
• Catherine Calvert at AllMovie
• Catherine Calvert at the Internet Broadway Database
• Catherine Calvert photo gallery NY Public Library Billy Rose Collection
• Catherine Calvert portraits at Corbis

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