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Actor, born in the USA on the 18th of March, 1892, died on the 9th of October, 1967.
Gay: N/A |
Lesbian: 1 out of 9 |
Trans: N/A |
Queer: N/A |
It’s not known with any certainty whether she was a lesbian or bisexual, but see the biography below.
Edith Storey was among the greatest and most recognized heroines of silent cinema and her name appeared on one of the first stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
She was born on the 18th of March, 1892 in New York, New York and was still a child when she started acting, touring the world over in The Little Princess and Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch. As a teenager in 1908, she joined the Vitagraph company, just ten years after it had been founded, and began starring in short films, such as playing the lead role of Sebastian in an early 1910 adaptation of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.
Though already a major figure, it was 1914’s The Christian that made Storey a star and cemented the Vitagraph company’s place in the film industry. Also in 1914, she played Lillian Travers/Lawrence Talbot in Sidney Drew’s satirical transgender comedy A Florida Enchantment.
Every film Storey starred in with Vitagraph after The Christian was a greater success than the last, but in 1917 she decided to leave Vitagraph and join the new Metro studio, which would later merge with Goldwyn and Louis B. Mayer Pictures to become MGM. WWI interrupted her acting career, however: she left the screen to become a military ambulance driver in France.
On her return after the war, her stardom seemed to vanish. In the ‘20s, she worked on a few B-movies like Moon Madness for the little-known Robertson-Cole studio before retiring in obscurity. She died in Northport, New York on the 9th of October, 1967.
In regard to her possibly being a lesbian, as has been said, there is little to go on to give a definite yes or no, but there is this: she never married, living alone with her brother, and contemporary celebrity magazines and tabloids make no mention of any male interest. She did, however, go on lengthy tours alone with a number of actresses. It’s dangerous to read too much into that, it may mean nothing, but it’s worth at least a blip.
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