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Actor, born in the USA on the 28th of August, 1863, died on the 9th of April, 1919.
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Drew appears to have been straight.
It’s difficult to say much about Sidney White Drew. What sources exist tend to be wildly contradictory and sketchy on linking details together. He was either born on the 28th of August, 1863 in New York, New York to an unknown women then adopted into the Drew family, or he’s their biological son, born aboard a ship in the Atlantic on the 28th of September while his parents were returning to the US from their European tour.
He became an actor and entered the vaudeville circuit at some point, when is difficult to say, but by 1911 he and his wife Gladys Rankin were engaged as a comedy duo for the Kalem Company. The two had a son, Sidney Rankin-Drew, who also acted, often with his cousin Lionel Barrymore.
1913 signaled their transition into movies when they signed with Vitagraph. Rankin died that same year and Drew remarried to a screenwriter named Lucille McVey, who also acted under the name Jane Morrow.
They began making films of their own, with Morrow writing the scripts, Drew directing, and both acting. In 1914, they created A Florida Enchantment, a satirical comedy about mysterious seeds with the ability to change women into men and vice versa.
In 1916, the pair signed with Metro, becoming one of the most popular marital comedy duos of the period, but they would leave the studio after son Rankin-Drew’s death in WWI combat. Sidney Drew never recovered from the loss of his only child and himself died a year later, on the 9th of April, 1919 in New York.
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