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Clara Kimball Young
Actress
Female
Born
Sep 6, 1890
Hometown
Chicago
Died
Oct 15, 1960
Death Place
Woodland Hills, C...
Other Names
Kimball, Clarisa
Clara Kimball Young was an American film actress, who was highly regarded and publicly popular in the early silent film era.
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CHILDHOOD
1890
Birth
Born on September 6, 1890.
TWENTIES
1912
21 Years Old
Early in her career she met and married a fellow stock company and known Broadway actor named James Young. Young's previous wife had been the songwriter/lyricist Rida Johnson Young. After sending a photograph to Vitagraph Studios, Clara Kimball Young, as she was then known, and her husband were both offered yearly contracts in 1912.
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1913
22 Years Old
By 1913 she had become one of the most popular leading ladies at Vitagraph and placed at number seventeen in a public popularity poll.
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1914
23 Years Old
In 1914 Vitagraph released the drama My Official Wife which starred Young as a Russian revolutionary and was directed by her husband James Young and co-starred the popular leading man Earle Williams.
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1915
24 Years Old
After a string of successful roles, Young was firmly established as one of the chief attractions of World Film Corporation and her husband James was now a much sought after director. By 1915 Young's popularity was rivalling that of other early luminary actresses of the era: Mary Pickford, Dorothy and Lillian Gish, Pearl White, Edna Purviance, and Mabel Normand.
1916
25 Years Old
Young became involved in a much publicized affair with Selznick, culminating in a 1916 divorce suit brought about by James Young, charging Clara with alienation of affection.
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1917
26 Years Old
In 1917 Kimball Young became involved in an affair with Harry Garson, with whom she then teamed up with in a business venture.
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THIRTIES
1925
34 Years Old
Kimball Young also began suffering a series of press attacks for her business dealings and personal relationship with Garson. By 1925, her stardom began to fade and she made her last silent film Lying Wives.
1928
37 Years Old
Kimball Young spent the remainder of the 1920s performing in vaudeville, and in 1928 quietly married Dr. Arthur Fauman.
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FIFTIES
1941
50 Years Old
She quietly retired from her acting career in 1941.
LATE ADULTHOOD
1960
70 Years Old
Clara Kimball Young died of a stroke at the Motion Picture House on October 15, 1960 in Woodland Hills, California and was interred at the Grand View Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
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