Anne Cornwall
Actress

Anne Cornwall

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Gender:
Female
Birth:
17 January 1897(New York City, New York, U.S.A.)
Death:
2 March 1980(Van Nuys, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California)
Family:
Spouse(s):
Charles Maigne
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Introduction

Anne Cornwall (January 17, 1897 – March 2, 1980), was an American actress.

Biography

Born in 1897, Cornwall performed for forty years in many silent film productions starting in 1918, and later in talkies, until 1959. She was first married to writer/director Charles Maigne, then later to Los Angeles engineer Ellis Wing Taylor, who fathered her only child, Peter Taylor. In 1925, she was one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars.

Selected filmography

  • The Firing Line (1919)
  • The Copperhead (1920)
  • Her Gilded Cage (1922)
  • To Have and to Hold (1922)
  • Only 38 (1923)
  • Dulcy (1923)
  • The Gold Diggers (1923)
  • 40-Horse Hawkins (1924)
  • Arizona Express (1924)
  • The Splendid Crime (1926)
  • The Flaming Frontier (1926)
  • College (1927)
  • Eyes of the Totem (1927)
  • Men O' War (1929)
  • You Can't Take It with You (1938)
  • Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939)