Ivy Troutman (September , â€" January , ) was an American supporting
actress active during the first half of the twentieth century. She
acted in at least twenty-one Broadway productions between and ,
appearing in such long-running plays as A Pair of Sixes, Baby Mine and
The Late George Apley. In the s Troutman, with her husband, portrait
painter Waldo Peirce, joined the colony of American expatriates in
Paris that included Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda
Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway.Ivy Troutman was born in Long Branch,
New Jersey, the middle of three daughters raised by John J. Troutman
and Lyda H. West. Her father, a native of New York, was a carpenter by
trade. Her mother, who was born in New Jersey, died at the age of
thirty-three just a few days past Troutman’s ninth birthday.
Troutman attended Saint Mary's School in Raleigh, North Carolina,
where the family had relocated at some point in her youth and, after
their return to Long Branch, Chattle High School.Troutman made her
professional stage debt at Wallack's Theatre on April , , playing a
minor rôle in the Leo Ditrichstein drama, The Last Appeal. Later that
year and into the next she toured with E. H. Sothern as Isabel in If I
Were King, a historical drama by Justin Huntly McCarthy. At the Herald
Square Theatre in March ,Troutman played Annie Bellamy to the Peg
Woffington of Grace George in Frances Aymar Mathews’s biographical
drama, Pretty Peggy.She subsequently left the cast of Pretty Peggy to
play leading rôles with Amelia Bingham's touring company before
joining Boston’s Castle Square Theatre the following season as a
stock player. Over the â€" season Troutman toured as Bessie Tanner in
George Ade's comedy The Other Girl, and in she portrayed Estelle
Kitteridge in a tour of the Augustus Thomas comedy The Other Girl. At
the Empire Theatre on March , , Troutman played Frances Berkeley in
Ade’s comedy-drama, Father and the Boys and the following year
toured in Augustus Thomas’ The Witching Hour.
actress active during the first half of the twentieth century. She
acted in at least twenty-one Broadway productions between and ,
appearing in such long-running plays as A Pair of Sixes, Baby Mine and
The Late George Apley. In the s Troutman, with her husband, portrait
painter Waldo Peirce, joined the colony of American expatriates in
Paris that included Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda
Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway.Ivy Troutman was born in Long Branch,
New Jersey, the middle of three daughters raised by John J. Troutman
and Lyda H. West. Her father, a native of New York, was a carpenter by
trade. Her mother, who was born in New Jersey, died at the age of
thirty-three just a few days past Troutman’s ninth birthday.
Troutman attended Saint Mary's School in Raleigh, North Carolina,
where the family had relocated at some point in her youth and, after
their return to Long Branch, Chattle High School.Troutman made her
professional stage debt at Wallack's Theatre on April , , playing a
minor rôle in the Leo Ditrichstein drama, The Last Appeal. Later that
year and into the next she toured with E. H. Sothern as Isabel in If I
Were King, a historical drama by Justin Huntly McCarthy. At the Herald
Square Theatre in March ,Troutman played Annie Bellamy to the Peg
Woffington of Grace George in Frances Aymar Mathews’s biographical
drama, Pretty Peggy.She subsequently left the cast of Pretty Peggy to
play leading rôles with Amelia Bingham's touring company before
joining Boston’s Castle Square Theatre the following season as a
stock player. Over the â€" season Troutman toured as Bessie Tanner in
George Ade's comedy The Other Girl, and in she portrayed Estelle
Kitteridge in a tour of the Augustus Thomas comedy The Other Girl. At
the Empire Theatre on March , , Troutman played Frances Berkeley in
Ade’s comedy-drama, Father and the Boys and the following year
toured in Augustus Thomas’ The Witching Hour.
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