Aimée Dalmores (died January 22, 1920), née Aimée Cerruti, was an
Italian-born American actress in musical theatre and silent
films.Aimée Dalmores was born in Salerno, with the surname Cerruti,
"of Neapolitan parentage." She immigrated to the United States with
her family at the age of five. She returned to Europe to study art in
Paris.In 1920, Cerruti's parents lived at 309 East 144th Street in the
Bronx. James J. Cerruti, also at that address, was a stenographer and
typist with the New York Department of Public Charities in 1916 and
1917. James J. Cerruti was her brother; he had a career in the Army
Signal Corps and later became an artist; he recalled his Italian
immigrant parents and their home in the Bronx, and his sister "who ran
away to be an actress".Broadway appearances by Dalmores included roles
in Dancing Around (1914-1915), Josephine (1918), and The Master
(1918). Other stage credits included Taking Chances (1915), The
Unchastened Woman (1916), Peace and Quiet (1916), Anna Cora Mowatt's
short play Fashion (1917), and Fifth Avenue (1917). She was in the
cast of The French Episode (1917), directed by Ben Ali Haggin, part of
a pageant presented on Long Island, to benefit the American Red Cross
during World War I. In 1918 she was the leading lady of the Robins
Stock company in Toronto, where she starred in Broken Threads. Her
film roles were in silent pictures from 1917, Scandal, starring
Constance Talmadge, The On-the-Square Girl, written by Ouida Bergère,
and Madame Fifi.
Italian-born American actress in musical theatre and silent
films.Aimée Dalmores was born in Salerno, with the surname Cerruti,
"of Neapolitan parentage." She immigrated to the United States with
her family at the age of five. She returned to Europe to study art in
Paris.In 1920, Cerruti's parents lived at 309 East 144th Street in the
Bronx. James J. Cerruti, also at that address, was a stenographer and
typist with the New York Department of Public Charities in 1916 and
1917. James J. Cerruti was her brother; he had a career in the Army
Signal Corps and later became an artist; he recalled his Italian
immigrant parents and their home in the Bronx, and his sister "who ran
away to be an actress".Broadway appearances by Dalmores included roles
in Dancing Around (1914-1915), Josephine (1918), and The Master
(1918). Other stage credits included Taking Chances (1915), The
Unchastened Woman (1916), Peace and Quiet (1916), Anna Cora Mowatt's
short play Fashion (1917), and Fifth Avenue (1917). She was in the
cast of The French Episode (1917), directed by Ben Ali Haggin, part of
a pageant presented on Long Island, to benefit the American Red Cross
during World War I. In 1918 she was the leading lady of the Robins
Stock company in Toronto, where she starred in Broken Threads. Her
film roles were in silent pictures from 1917, Scandal, starring
Constance Talmadge, The On-the-Square Girl, written by Ouida Bergère,
and Madame Fifi.
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