Leila_McIntyre

Leila McIntyre

Leila McIntyre

American actress


Leila McIntyre (December 20, 1882 – January 9, 1953) was an American actress and vaudeville performer.

Quick Facts Born, Died ...

Early life

Leila McIntyre was from Vermont,[1] She was on stage from childhood.[2]

Career

Leila McIntyre and John Hyams, from a 1917 publication.

Leila McIntyre was a vaudeville performer,[3] first as half of Linton & McIntyre, "The Chattering Chums",[4] and finding fame as part of the Hyams & McIntyre comedy team with her husband, John Hyams.[5] She appeared in several Broadway productions, including Mother Goose (1903),[6] A Little of Everything (1904),[7] York State Folks (1905), The Girl of My Dreams (1911)[8] and The Dancing Duchess (1914).[9] In a review of The Girl of My Dreams, the New York Times noted that McIntyre had "a pretty saucer-eyed innocent stare and quavering treble" suited to her ingenue role.[10]

Leila McIntyre appeared in almost forty films, usually in small roles, including twice as Mary Todd Lincoln, in The Plainsman (1936) and in The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936). She was also seen in Hurricane (1929), On the Level (1930), Marriage on Approval (1933), Her Secret (1933), Private Worlds (1935), Murder in the Fleet, Mr. Cinderella (1936), Pick a Star (1937),[11] The Housekeeper's Daughter (1939) and Captain Eddie (1945). Her last film role was in The Hoodlum Saint (1946).[12]

Personal life

Leila McIntyre married fellow actor John Hyams, in 1904. Their daughter, Leila Hyams (1905-1977), also became an actress.[13] Leila McIntyre was widowed in 1940.[14] She died in 1953, aged 70 years, in Los Angeles, California.[15]

Filmography

More information Year, Title ...

References

  1. "Easter Blooms in the Theaters" The Gazette Times, Pittsburgh (April 20, 1919): 54. via Newspapers.comOpen access icon
  2. "Lincoln Stage Notes" The Lincoln Daily Star (October 13, 1911): 7. via Newspapers.comOpen access icon
  3. "Orpheum Offerings" Western Magazine (November 1, 1919): xii.
  4. "Advance Comment" The Capital (July 19, 1902): 11.
  5. Anthony Slide, Encyclopedia of Vaudeville (University Press of Mississippi 2012): 256-257. ISBN 9781617032509
  6. "Klaw and Erlanger are Well Prepared" Broadway Weekly (August 18, 1904): 17.
  7. Roland Burke Hennessy, "The American Stage: A Little of Everything and Much of Faye Templeton" Broadway Weekly (June 23, 1904): 12.
  8. "Leila McIntyre in The Girl of my Dreams" Cosmopolitan Magazine (November 1911): 807.
  9. "Hyams & McIntyre" in Frank Cullen, Florence Hackman, Donald McNeilly, eds., Vaudeville Old & New: An Encyclopedia of Variety Performances in America (Psychology Press 2007): 545-546. ISBN 9780415938532
  10. "'Girl of My Dreams' at the Criterion" New York Times (August 8, 1911): 9. via ProQuest
  11. Leila McIntyre filmography, Turner Classic Movies.
  12. "Mrs. Leila McIntyre" Tampa Tribune (January 11, 1953): 6. via Newspapers.comOpen access icon

Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Leila_McIntyre, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.