Mignon Anderson


Mignon Anderson was an American film and stage actress. Her career was at its peak in the 1910s.

Early years

Born in Baltimore, Anderson was the daughter of Hallie Howard and Frank Anderson, who were also actors. She grew up in New York City and acted on stage before she ventured into films.

Career

In 1911, she joined Thanhouser Studios in New Rochelle, New York. She was very diminutive and a blonde. Anderson starred alongside William Garwood in a number of short films including A New Cure for Divorce in 1912.
She began working for Universal Pictures in January 1917. A year later, she left Universal and thereafter worked on a freelance basis. Her final film was Kisses.

Personal life and death

Anderson's engagement to actor Irving Cummings ended because her family did not want her to marry a Jew and his family opposed his marrying a gentile.
Playing in Thanhouser films brought about an acquaintance with Morris Foster, also of that company. She was married to Foster from 1915 until his death in 1966.
On February 25, 1983, Anderson died in Burbank, California at the age of 90, and was laid to rest on the Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills).

Filmography

The Winter's Tale Robert Emmet Silas Marner The Pied Piper of Hamelin David Copperfield A Master of Millions As It Was in the Beginning Nicholas Nickleby The Star of the Side Show Dora Thorne Her Secret On the Stroke of Five Farm and Flat The Finger of Scorn The Merchant of Venice Treasure Trove A New Cure for Divorce Old Doctor Judd Big Sister When a Count Counted Lucile Orator, Knight and Cow Charmer At the Foot of the Ladder Please Help the Pore Miss Robinson Crusoe When Mercy Tempers Justice The Truant's Doom The Thunderbolt Standing Room Only A Will and a Way At Liberty—Good Press Agent With the Mounted Police Just a Shabby Doll King René's Daughter Little Dorrit Robin Hood A Daughter Worth While The Plot Against the Governor A Clothes-Line Quarrel A Beauty Parlor Graduate Pamela Congreve Two Little Dromios Turkey Trot Town The Elusive Diamond Why Reginald Reformed The Golden Cross The Scientist's Doll Guilty or Not Guilty When Sorrow Fades The Tin Soldier and the Dolls Beating Back When Algy Froze Up From the Flames Getting Rid of Algy Lost: A Union Suit A Dog of Flanders Rivalry The Man Without Fear The Million Dollar Mystery The Harlow Handicap The Substitute The Messenger of Death The Guiding Hand Stronger Than Death Conscience Jean of the Wilderness The Terror of Anger A Denver Romance Naidra, the Dream Woman When East Meets West A Hatful of Trouble Lucy's Elopement The Bridal Bouquet Her Menacing Past An Inside Tip A Yellowstone Honeymoon In the Jury Room The Shoplifter The Magnet of Destruction The Reformation of Peter and Paul A Scientific Mother The Song of the Heart The House That Jack Moved The Girl of the Sea Innocence at Monte Carlo A Maker of Guns Madame Blanche, Beauty Doctor Dot on the Day Line Boat Outcasts of Society Milestones of Life The Revenge of the Steeple-Jack A Message Through Flames The Price of Her Silence John T. Rocks and the Flivver At the Patrician Club The Mill on the Floss The Woman in Politics The Knotted Cord The City of Illusion Her Husband's Wife Pamela's Past Perils of the Secret Service Even As You and I