Born today: stage and screen star Mabel Taliaferro (1887-1979). From one of America’s oldest Italian-American families, Taliaferro was raised in Richmond and started out in the theatre by working with Chauncey Olcott. Her first Broadway production, of a career that would embrace two dozen, was Children of the Ghetto (1899). Other notable plays from her […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:06AM on May 21, 2018