#emily stevens

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Hot Vintage Stage Actress Round 3

Emily Stevens vs Marie Doro

Emily Stevens (left)

Marie Doro (right)

Voting ended onMay 31, 2024

Emily Stevens: Victoria Fairchild in Modern Marriage (1911 Broadway); Myra Dimsley in The Point of View (1912 Broadway); Madonna in Madonna of the Future (1926 Broadway)

Marie Doro: Lady Millicent in Little Mary (1904 Broadway); Dora in Granny (1904 Broadway); Friquet in Friquet (1905 West End)

Propaganda under the cut.

Emily Stevens:

she stims!!! i dont wanna diagnose someone from a hundred years ago with anything but as someone with audhd, it was so lovely reading reviews of her as an actress and reading about how she constantly fidgeted and bit her lip like seeing someone from a hundred years ago who did the same things i do made her feel so human to me and was really special

Marie Doro:

I am so sad that she died long before I was born so now I don’t have a chance with her, she embodies everything my little lesbian heart looks for in a woman. Incredibly pretty? Check, intelligent and witty? Check, an expert on Shakespeare and Elizabethan poetry? Check, a literal occultist who hosted seances? Check, she’s got it all

I need you to know I literally read the entire Charlie Chaplin autobiography just to read the scraps of information about her in it. I’m obsessed

[happywebdesign]

https://www.emilystevens.co/

[vintagestagehotties]

Hot Vintage Stage Actress Round 1

Ada Reeve vs Emily Stevens

Ada Reeve (left)

Emily Stevens (right)

Voting ended onApr 23, 2024

Ada Reeve: Dudley in San Toy (1901 West End); Ada Branscombe in Three Little Maids (1902 West End); Rhodanthe in Butterflies (1908 West End)

Emily Stevens: Victoria Fairchild in Modern Marriage (1911 Broadway); Myra Dimsley in The Point of View (1912 Broadway); Madonna in Madonna of the Future (1926 Broadway)

Propaganda under the cut

Ada Reeve:

Emily Stevens:

she stims!!! i dont wanna diagnose someone from a hundred years ago with anything but as someone with audhd, it was so lovely reading reviews of her as an actress and reading about how she constantly fidgeted and bit her lip like seeing someone from a hundred years ago who did the same things i do made her feel so human to me and was really special

[vintagestagehotties]

Hot Vintage Stage Actress Round 2

Emily Stevens vs Mrs Patrick Campbell

Emily Stevens (left)

Mrs Patrick Campbell (right)

Voting ended onMay 13, 2024

Emily Stevens: Victoria Fairchild in Modern Marriage (1911 Broadway); Myra Dimsley in The Point of View (1912 Broadway); Madonna in Madonna of the Future (1926 Broadway)

Mrs Patrick Campbell: Mélisande in Pelléas et Mélisande (1904 Broadway); Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion (1914 West End); Hedda Gabler in Hedda Gabler (1922 West End)

Propaganda under the cut

Emily Stevens:

she stims!!! i dont wanna diagnose someone from a hundred years ago with anything but as someone with audhd, it was so lovely reading reviews of her as an actress and reading about how she constantly fidgeted and bit her lip like seeing someone from a hundred years ago who did the same things i do made her feel so human to me and was really special

Mrs Patrick Campbell:

Mrs Pat created the role of Eliza Doolittle and was one of the only deaths George Bernard Shaw gave enough of a shit about to put in his diary. Most likely due to the whole madly in love with her and creating a ton of stage characters for her thing

[writer-in-wonder]

i’m barely 5 min into emily’s latest youtube video where she introduces us to her boyfriend and i cannot i’m so happy for you and sawyer 😭

the fact that he literally saw one of her reels 4 years ago and thought she was cute and then when he realized last year that she was friends with one of his friends he was like WAIT 😭😭😭

[lost-in-woodlawn]

The above photo comes via New York Public Library Digital Collections and features an actress who rests in Woodlawn Cemetery, Emily Stevens.

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/a1615a3c-295b-fd0e-e040-e00a180636c0

The Neighborhood Playhouse in Manhattan usually presented dramas back in the 1920s, but for several years they put on revues in the summer months that parodied what was going on in theatre at the time (decades before “Forbidden Broadway.”) Emily Stevens was a popular theatre actress (who would go onto silent films;) she was imitated by actor Albert Carroll in the Playhouse’s “Grand Street Follies” in 1925.   Looks like Emily had a good sense of humor about it!  The Neighborhood Playhouse was co-founded by Irene Lewisohn who also rests in Woodlawn Cemetery (she also appeared in the 1925 “Grand Street Follies”;) she will be the topic of a future post.

(above photo via Library of Congress)

Writer Anita Loos described Emily in her book Kiss Hollywood Good-By as “a full-blown, red-headed beauty.” She appeared in 15 silent films and many plays over the course of 25 years, including the title role in Ibsen's "Hedda Gabler" on Broadway in 1926.  Actress Minnie Maddern Fiske was her cousin; Fiske came from Chicago to attend Emily’s funeral. Her parents were theatrical manager Robert E. Stevens and actress Emma Maddern.

Emily died in 1928 at her apartment at 50 W. 67th Street in Manhattan after an apparent sedative overdose which led to pneumonia; she was 54 years old.

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Emily Stevens and George Le Guere in The Soul of a Woman, 1915. Incomplete print of this film survives in the Library of Congress archive.