Edna Luby (October , â€" October , ) was an American actress and
comedian. She acted on stage and in silent films and performed in
vaudeville as a celebrity impersonator. Luby was the niece of Sigmund
Lubin, a pioneer film producer.The daughter of an optician, Edna Luby
was born in New York City to Louis and Emma Luby. A short while later
Luby and her family relocated to London, England, where as a young
girl she attracted some attention by mimicking her classmates. She
soon developed a keen interest in the theatre that was nourished by
her mother when, at the age of ten, she began receiving elocution
instructions from the American-born British actress, Geneviève
Ward.Luby was back in New York by where she made her professional
stage debut at the Garden Theatre as a stand-in for actress May
Buckley in Hearts Are Trumps that year during its February to May run.
Hearts Are Trumps, a four-act melodrama, was written by Cecil Raleigh,
produced by Charles Frohman and had also introduced to Broadway
theatergoers a young Cecil B. De Mille. In late Luby was well
received at the Madison Square Theatre, New York after she succeeded
Jessie Busley in the rôle of Estelle in The Two Schools. In December
Luby played Greta opposite Fritzi Scheff in Babette at the Broadway
Theatre, and a subsequent road tour. In May she joined the cast of
the Anna Held hit musical comedy A Parisian Model at the Broadway
Theatre. and later that year she appeared in the original Ziegfeld
Follies production, playing Miss Mimique and Miss Edna Might.
comedian. She acted on stage and in silent films and performed in
vaudeville as a celebrity impersonator. Luby was the niece of Sigmund
Lubin, a pioneer film producer.The daughter of an optician, Edna Luby
was born in New York City to Louis and Emma Luby. A short while later
Luby and her family relocated to London, England, where as a young
girl she attracted some attention by mimicking her classmates. She
soon developed a keen interest in the theatre that was nourished by
her mother when, at the age of ten, she began receiving elocution
instructions from the American-born British actress, Geneviève
Ward.Luby was back in New York by where she made her professional
stage debut at the Garden Theatre as a stand-in for actress May
Buckley in Hearts Are Trumps that year during its February to May run.
Hearts Are Trumps, a four-act melodrama, was written by Cecil Raleigh,
produced by Charles Frohman and had also introduced to Broadway
theatergoers a young Cecil B. De Mille. In late Luby was well
received at the Madison Square Theatre, New York after she succeeded
Jessie Busley in the rôle of Estelle in The Two Schools. In December
Luby played Greta opposite Fritzi Scheff in Babette at the Broadway
Theatre, and a subsequent road tour. In May she joined the cast of
the Anna Held hit musical comedy A Parisian Model at the Broadway
Theatre. and later that year she appeared in the original Ziegfeld
Follies production, playing Miss Mimique and Miss Edna Might.
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