Edith Roberts (actress)

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Edith Roberts
Roberts in 1922
Born	Edith Josephine Kohn (1899-09-17)September 17, 1899 New York City, U.S.
Died	August 20, 1935(1935-08-20) (aged 35) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Resting place	Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Occupation	Actress, vaudevillian
Years active	1915–1929
Spouse(s)	Harold Carter
Children	1

Edith Roberts (born Edith Josephine Kohn; September 17, 1899 – August 20, 1935) was an American silent film actress from New York City. She was a child performer in vaudeville before she came to Hollywood in 1915. Among her more than 150 screen credits are roles in Seven Keys to Baldpate (1925), Big Brother (1923), The Wagon Master (1929), and The Mystery Club (1926). Her final film role was in Two O'Clock in the Morning (1929).^{[citation needed]}

Career[]

Born in New York City,^[1] Roberts was a child actress.^[2]

In 1927, Roberts spent four months in Australia and the Fiji Islands as co-star of a film for Australasian Film Company, Ltd. She also starred in films for Universal.^[3] In 1920, she completed work on White Youth and signed a long-term contract with Universal.^[4]

Death[]

Roberts was married to Harold "Nick" Carter. She died at age 35 from sepsis at the Hollywood Hospital in 1935, shortly after giving birth to a son, Robert, her only child. A Christian Science memorial service was conducted at the chapel at Hollywood Cemetery, Los Angeles, California.

Selected filmography[]

Roberts in Backbone (1923)

• When the Call Came (1915)
• Billy's College Job (1915)
• The Trail of the Wild Wolf (1916)
• Cinders (1916)
• Jilted in Jail (1917)
• The Brazen Beauty (1918)
• The Deciding Kiss (1918)
• Set Free (1918)
• Bill Henry (1919)
• White Youth (1920)
• Her Five-Foot Highness (1920)
• Alias Miss Dodd (1920)
• The Adorable Savage (1920)
• The Triflers (1920)
• The Fire Cat (1921)
• Opened Shutters (1921)
• Luring Lips (1921)
• Flesh and Blood (1922)
• Pawned (1922)
• Thorns and Orange Blossoms (1922)
• A Front Page Story (1922)
• Saturday Night (1922)
• Backbone (1923)
• The Dangerous Age (1923)
• Roulette (1924)
• Twenty Dollars a Week (1924)
• The Bowery Bishop (1924)
• The Age of Innocence (1924)
• Thy Name Is Woman (1924)
• Roaring Rails (1924)
• Three Keys (1925)
• Heir-Loons (1925)
• Wasted Lives (1925)
• On Thin Ice (1925)
• The New Champion (1925)
• Seven Keys to Baldpate (1925)
• There You Are! (1926)
• The Taxi Mystery (1926)
• The Jazz Girl (1926)
• The Mystery Club (1926)
• The Adorable Outcast (1928)
• Dreary House (1928)
• The Man from Headquarters (1928)
• The Phantom of the North (1929)

References[]

• Los Angeles Times, Last Honor Paid To Edith Roberts, August 23, 1935, Page A2.
• The New York Times, Mrs. Harold Carter, August 22, 1935, Page 15.

External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Edith Roberts.

• Edith Roberts at IMDb
• Edith Roberts at Virtual History