Ynez Seabury (June , â€" April , ) was an American actress of the
stage, silent and early sound film era.Born in Portland, Oregon, she
was a descendant of one of the first Spanish families of California.
Her maternal great-grandfather was Mario Peralta, a founder of
Oakland, California. Ynez was in motion pictures by the age of four,
having a role as Little Kathyin The Miser's Heart (). She remained on
the screen until the late s, appearing in twenty-six movies. Her final
role was an uncredited one in Samson and Delilah ().Ynez' mother,
Charlotte, appeared in stage productions in Los Angeles, California
and in Hollywood films. Her father, Forest Seabury, was a character
actor who once played in stock productions in the eastern United
States. The comic actor Berton Churchill acted with Forest and later
with Ynez when she made Allas the Deacon (), a comedy production of
the Hollywood Playhouse. He once told Ynez about holding her as a baby
of a year and a half. They watched her father act while standing in
the wings. Miss Seabury began her stage career when she was but two
years of age.She trained under such masters as D.W. Griffith. Ynez
participated in His Blossom Bride, a romantic drama of the stage. It
was produced by Richard Walton Tully and premiered at the Mason opera
house in Los Angeles in March . The scenery and lighting for the play
showed an opening prologue in the Painted Desert of Arizona and the
Hopi Indian reservation. Members of the Hopi tribe were adopted by
Ynez, who portrayed the Indian heroine. She was revered by the Hopi
because of her understanding of their lives and ambitions. Before
serving as background actors in the production, twenty-nine tribesmen
and their chief toured Los Angeles in Cadillacs and La Salles.
stage, silent and early sound film era.Born in Portland, Oregon, she
was a descendant of one of the first Spanish families of California.
Her maternal great-grandfather was Mario Peralta, a founder of
Oakland, California. Ynez was in motion pictures by the age of four,
having a role as Little Kathyin The Miser's Heart (). She remained on
the screen until the late s, appearing in twenty-six movies. Her final
role was an uncredited one in Samson and Delilah ().Ynez' mother,
Charlotte, appeared in stage productions in Los Angeles, California
and in Hollywood films. Her father, Forest Seabury, was a character
actor who once played in stock productions in the eastern United
States. The comic actor Berton Churchill acted with Forest and later
with Ynez when she made Allas the Deacon (), a comedy production of
the Hollywood Playhouse. He once told Ynez about holding her as a baby
of a year and a half. They watched her father act while standing in
the wings. Miss Seabury began her stage career when she was but two
years of age.She trained under such masters as D.W. Griffith. Ynez
participated in His Blossom Bride, a romantic drama of the stage. It
was produced by Richard Walton Tully and premiered at the Mason opera
house in Los Angeles in March . The scenery and lighting for the play
showed an opening prologue in the Painted Desert of Arizona and the
Hopi Indian reservation. Members of the Hopi tribe were adopted by
Ynez, who portrayed the Indian heroine. She was revered by the Hopi
because of her understanding of their lives and ambitions. Before
serving as background actors in the production, twenty-nine tribesmen
and their chief toured Los Angeles in Cadillacs and La Salles.
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