Marguerite Snow (September , â€" February , ) was an American silent
film and stage actress. In her early films she was billed as Margaret
Snow.Snow was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her father, Billy Snow,
was a comedian and a minstrel, and the family lived in Savannah,
Georgia. After his death, her mother moved the family to Denver,
Colorado. Snow attended Loretta Heights Academy and acted in local
summer stock plays.Snow became an actress at an early age and played
many parts while still a child. Her stage career did not begin in
earnest until she was sixteen years old. Her first engagement was with
James O'Neill in a revival of The Count of Monte Cristo. She played in
The College Widow, Mrs. Temple's Telegram, as Elsa in The Devil, and
at the Bijou Theater, Wheeling, where as leading lady of the stock
company she played ten different parts.[citation needed] On Broadway,
she performed in The Devil () and The Other Fellow ().Beginning in ,
Snow gained prominence in silent films made by the Kinemacolor
Company, the Thanhouser Film Company in New Rochelle, New York, and
the old Metro Pictures studio before it became MGM. In she starred in
films such as The Moth and The Buddhist Priestess. Some of her later
feature pictures are Baseball and Bloomers (), A Niagara Honeymoon (),
The Caged Bird (), The Silent Voice (), A Corner in Cotton (),
Broadway Jones (), The Veiled Woman (), and Kit Carson Over The Great
Divide (). In Broadway Jones Snow played a pretty stenographer at the
Jones' gun factory as the movie's leading lady. This was the first
Artcraft photoplay of George M. Cohan. She never made a movie after
the introduction of sound to films.
film and stage actress. In her early films she was billed as Margaret
Snow.Snow was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her father, Billy Snow,
was a comedian and a minstrel, and the family lived in Savannah,
Georgia. After his death, her mother moved the family to Denver,
Colorado. Snow attended Loretta Heights Academy and acted in local
summer stock plays.Snow became an actress at an early age and played
many parts while still a child. Her stage career did not begin in
earnest until she was sixteen years old. Her first engagement was with
James O'Neill in a revival of The Count of Monte Cristo. She played in
The College Widow, Mrs. Temple's Telegram, as Elsa in The Devil, and
at the Bijou Theater, Wheeling, where as leading lady of the stock
company she played ten different parts.[citation needed] On Broadway,
she performed in The Devil () and The Other Fellow ().Beginning in ,
Snow gained prominence in silent films made by the Kinemacolor
Company, the Thanhouser Film Company in New Rochelle, New York, and
the old Metro Pictures studio before it became MGM. In she starred in
films such as The Moth and The Buddhist Priestess. Some of her later
feature pictures are Baseball and Bloomers (), A Niagara Honeymoon (),
The Caged Bird (), The Silent Voice (), A Corner in Cotton (),
Broadway Jones (), The Veiled Woman (), and Kit Carson Over The Great
Divide (). In Broadway Jones Snow played a pretty stenographer at the
Jones' gun factory as the movie's leading lady. This was the first
Artcraft photoplay of George M. Cohan. She never made a movie after
the introduction of sound to films.
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