Leora Spellman (July , or â€" September , ) was an American
vaudeville performer and stage and film actress and the wife of
Charles B. Middleton.Born Leora Theresa Spellmeyer in Bonne Terre,
Missouri, she began singing on stage as a child, and as a young lady
began working in vaudeville where she met and married fellow performer
Charles Middleton in . They then teamed up to create a vaudeville act
billed as "Middleton and Spellmeyer."Using the stage name Laura
Spellman, she worked primarily in live theatre, as did her husband,
but in they made their silent film debut together in "Wits vs. Wits."
However, she continued working on stage, and appeared in only two more
films. Her husband eventually built a very successful career as a
character actor in film, notably as "Emperor Ming" in the Flash Gordon
serials.Although sixteen years his junior, Leora Spellman predeceased
her husband by four years, dying in in Los Angeles, California from a
heart attack. She is interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in
Hollywood next to her husband. Although most published sources list
the year of her birth as , her gravestone indicates she was born in .
The US Federal Census indicates age , with a birth month and year of
July , on an information sheet dated June , . [Ancestry.com]
vaudeville performer and stage and film actress and the wife of
Charles B. Middleton.Born Leora Theresa Spellmeyer in Bonne Terre,
Missouri, she began singing on stage as a child, and as a young lady
began working in vaudeville where she met and married fellow performer
Charles Middleton in . They then teamed up to create a vaudeville act
billed as "Middleton and Spellmeyer."Using the stage name Laura
Spellman, she worked primarily in live theatre, as did her husband,
but in they made their silent film debut together in "Wits vs. Wits."
However, she continued working on stage, and appeared in only two more
films. Her husband eventually built a very successful career as a
character actor in film, notably as "Emperor Ming" in the Flash Gordon
serials.Although sixteen years his junior, Leora Spellman predeceased
her husband by four years, dying in in Los Angeles, California from a
heart attack. She is interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in
Hollywood next to her husband. Although most published sources list
the year of her birth as , her gravestone indicates she was born in .
The US Federal Census indicates age , with a birth month and year of
July , on an information sheet dated June , . [Ancestry.com]
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