CLAXTON, Kate [1848-1924] -- American actress
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She first appeared with Lotta Crabtree in Chicago, but attracted no attention until the production of Led Astray, in 1873. HE It was as Louise in The Two Orphans for which she would always be associated, appearing in it as late as 1903. At about that time, she sold film rights for the script to director D. W. Griffith, who adapted it into his final epic, Orphans of the Storm (1921), a silent film starring sisters ¤Lillian and ¤Dorothy Gish.
In a Harper’s Weekly cartoon, artist Thomas Nast defended her from the rumor,
spread in the tabloid press
of the day,
that her presence in a building was bad luck.
The superstitious fear arose after a Brooklyn theater where she was performing
(1876 Brooklyn Theater Fire)
and a St. Louis hotel where she was staying were consumed in separate fires.
(Kate Claxton miraculously survived the Brooklyn Theater Fire although most of her clothing was burned off.) 
Bookmarks (off-site links) |
- Works by Kate+Claxton
- Analyses, critiques and interpretations
- Orphans of the Storm review Comparing Claxton's performance with that of the Gish sisters.
- Quotations
- For sale
- BookFinder.com Books by or about Kate+Claxton
- The Two Orphans (1911) She co-authored the screenplay
- Analyses, critiques and interpretations
- Works about
- Biographical
- Specific periods, events, aspects. Trivia.
- HarpWeek: Cartoon of the Day The Nast cartoon.
- Chronologies, synopses, encyclopedias
- Kate Claxton
- Specific periods, events, aspects. Trivia.
- Genealogy
- Memorials, tributes, shrines
- Suites
- Kate Claxton, Actress photo - Marchael photos at pbase.com her tombstone, in Brooklyn
- georgia.gov - City of Claxton Few have a whole city named for them! (Don't miss the rattlesnake roundup, and the high point: The Annual Miss Rattlesnake Roundup Pagent.)
- Bibliographies and Link Farms
- Open Directory The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human- edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors.
- Search engines A selection of search engines, for Kate+Claxton
- Discussion, interviews
- Biographical
- Collections, archives - Papers
- Historical context, background
- Gallery
- The Internet Movie Database (IMDb). As a character.
- Kate Claxton As a participant: actor, director, etc.
- Kate Claxton - Google Image Search
- Theatre Posters Collection: Item Details
- Theatre Posters Collection: Item Details
- Theatre Posters Collection: Item Details as a nun
