The photo above shows 18 year old Melbourne-born Mary Maguire with Basil Rathbone and Jane Bryan on a break during the making of “Confession” in 1937. The photographer is unknown. From the author’s collection.

This site is dedicated to some of the undocumented Australian actresses – and actors – who travelled to work overseas, particularly before World War II.

So far… and in order of birth…

• Saharet (Paulina Clarissa Molony).
  Born Richmond, Victoria, Australia, 23 March 1878.
  Died Battle Creek, Michigan, USA, 24 July 1964.

• Alice Crawford.
  Born Bendigo, Victoria, Australia, 5 January 1880.
  Died place and date unknown (sometime after 1946).

• Carrie Moore, (Caroline Moore). [snapshot only and links to other sources]
  Born Geelong, Victoria, Australia, 31 July 1882.
  Died Sydney New South Wales, Australia, 5 September 1956.

• William Thomas and Emma Thomas
  William born Collingwood, Victoria, Australia, 1 January 1889
  Died Boulder, Western Australia, 1969

  Emma born Collingwood, Victoria, Australia, 1885
  Died Sunshine, Victoria, 1963

• Daphne Pollard (Daphne Trott) and on Daphne and Alf Goulding
  Born Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia, 19 October 1891.
  Died Los Angeles, California, USA. 22 February 1978.

• Mary Macgregor (Francis Mary Macgregor)
  Born Brisbane, Queensland,Australia, 16 August, 1904
  Died Mornington, Victoria, Australia, 17 March, 1954

• Lotus May Thompson
  Born Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia, 26 August 1904
  Died Los Angeles, California, USA, 24 May 1963

• Constance Worth also known as Jocelyn Howarth (Enid Joyce Howarth).
  Born Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 19 August, 1911.
  Died Los Angeles, California USA, 18 October 1963.

• Joan Winfield (Joan Marie Therese MacGillicuddy)
  Born Melbourne, Australia 24 September 1918.
  Died Los Angeles, California, USA, 16 June 1978.

• Mary Maguire (Helene Teresa Maguire) 1919-1938, 1939-1974, Epilogue
  Born Melbourne, Australia, 22 February 1919
  Died Los Angeles, California, USA, 18 May, 1974

And

Frank Healy’s San Francisco Opera Company 1907

 

 

Nick Murphy

September 2018