Gertrude Selby

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gertrude Selby
Gertrude Selby - 1919 MPW.jpg
Born
Gertrude Olga Selby

November 7, 1894
Pennsylvania, USA
DiedJune 22, 1975 (aged 80)
Los Angeles, California, USA
OccupationActress
Spouse(s) (div.)

Gertrude Selby was an American actress who was active in Hollywood in the silent era. She appeared in dozens of films between 1914 and 1920, most of which were short comedies.

Biography[]

Gertrude was born in Philadelphia to William Selby and Olga Hansen, and she was educated in New York City.[1] She began her career as a vaudevillian before breaking into the nascent motion picture industry around 1914, working frequently on L-KO comedies.[2][1][3]

In 1919, at age 24, she married wealthy Chicago socialite in Beverly Hills after a three-week courtship, against the wishes of Necher's family.[4] The couple divorced in the late 1920s, with Selby filing on the grounds of cruelty.[5][6][7] Netcher later married actress Constance Talmadge.

Selby appears to have retired from acting around the time she got married to Netcher, and spent several years post-divorce living in Spain with her mother and sister.[8] The three were evacuated from their apartment in Barcelona at the start of the Spanish Civil War.[9] Selby spent time post-Spain in a penthouse in Paris before returning to the United States in the early 1940s at the outbreak of World War II.[10][11] She does not appear to have ever remarried.

Select filmography[]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "The Photoplay Age". The Daily Gazette. 14 Apr 1916. Retrieved 2021-12-29.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ^ "Hitch in Hitch". Chicago Tribune. 6 Sep 1919. Retrieved 2021-12-29.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. ^ "LKO Has Famous Group of Girls". Statesman Journal. 4 Dec 1915. Retrieved 2021-12-29.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. ^ Lathrop, Monroe (17 Sep 1919). "To Put the Bible in Films". The Kansas City Star. Retrieved 2021-12-29.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ^ "Former Actress Sues". The Birmingham News. 29 Nov 1928. Retrieved 2021-12-29.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. ^ "Help Each Other to Divorces". Chicago Tribune. 26 Jan 1929. Retrieved 2021-12-29.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. ^ "Mrs. Netcher Gets Divorce for Cruelty". Lincoln Journal Star. 25 Dec 1928. Retrieved 2021-12-29.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. ^ McIntyre, O.O. (12 Jun 1933). "New York Day by Day". Journal and Courier. Retrieved 2021-12-29.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  9. ^ "Spanish Civil War Horrors Related by Los Angeles Girl". The Los Angeles Times. 25 Oct 1936. Retrieved 2021-12-29.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  10. ^ Leimert, Lucille (30 Aug 1939). "Chatterbox". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2021-12-29.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  11. ^ "Visitor". The Los Angeles Times. 18 Mar 1942. Retrieved 2021-12-29.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
Retrieved from ""