Catherine Calvert

Catherine Calvert (born Catherine Cassidy; April 20, 1890 – January 18, 1971) was an American actress.

Catherine Calvert
From Who's Who on the Screen, 1920
Born	Catherine Cassidy (1890-04-20)April 20, 1890 Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Died	January 18, 1971(1971-01-18) (aged 80) Uniondale, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Spouses	Paul Armstrong ​ ​ (m. 1913; died 1915)​ George A. Carruthers ​ ​ (m. 1925; died 1952)​
Children	1

Biography

The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cassidy,^[1] Catherine Calvert was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland.^[2]

She made her stage debut in the play Brown of Harvard in September 1908, in Albany, New York.^[2] On Broadway, she portrayed Doris Moore in The Deep Purple (1911),^[3][4] May Joyce in The Escape (1913), and Dona Sol in Blood and Sand (1921).^[5]

After many years' experience onstage in productions including The Deep Purple (a play by her future husband, Paul Armstrong), in 1910, she entered films via Keeney Pictures Corporation in A Romance of the Underworld (1918; based on a play in which she had appeared onstage).^[6]

Other films in which she appeared include Marriage, Out of the Night, Career of Katherine Bush, Marriage for Convenience, and Fires of Faith. Around 1920, she was a star of Vitagraph Studios.^[6]

Calvert married Armstrong in New Haven in 1913.^[7] They remained wed until his death in 1915.^[1] She later married Canadian grain exporter George A. Carruthers, who died in 1952.^[8]

In 1971, Calvert died in Uniondale, New York, at age 80.^[8]

Filmography

Marriage for Convenience (1919)

• Partners (1916) (*short)
• House of Cards (1917)
• The Peddler (1917))
• Think It Over (1917)
• Behind the Mask (1917)
• Outcast (1917)
• The Uphill Path (1918)
• A Romance of the Underworld (1918)
• Out of the Night (1918)
• Marriage (1918)
• Marriage For Convenience (1919)
• Fires of Faith (1919)
• The Career of Katherine Bush (1919)
• Dead Men Tell No Tales (1920)
• The Heart of Maryland (1921)
• You Find It Everywhere (1921)
• Moral Fibre (1921)
• The Green Caravan (1922)
• That Woman (1922)
• The Indian Love Lyrics (1923)
• Out to Win (1923)