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{{Short description|American actress (1906–1971)}}
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{{Infobox person
{{Infobox person
| name = Betty Bronson
| name = Betty Bronson
| image = Bettybronson.jpg
| image = Bettybronson.jpg
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| caption =
| caption = Bronson in the [[1920s]]
| birthname = Elizabeth Ada Bronson
| birth_name = Elizabeth Ada Bronson
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1906|11|17}}
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1906|11|17}}
| birth_place = [[Trenton, New Jersey|Trenton]], [[New Jersey]], U.S.
| birth_place = [[Trenton, New Jersey]], U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1971|10|19|1906|11|17}}
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1971|10|19|1906|11|17}}
| death_place = [[Pasadena, California|Pasadena]], [[California]], U.S.
| death_place = [[Pasadena, California]], U.S.
| resting_place = [[Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale)|Forest Lawn Memorial Park]], [[Glendale, California]]
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| occupation = Actress
| years_active = 1922–1971
| education = [[East Orange High School]]
| spouse = Ludwig Lauerhass
| occupation = Actress
| years_active = 1922–1971
| parents = Frank and Nellie Smith Bronson
| spouse = Ludwig Lauerhass
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| children = 1
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'''Elizabeth Ada "Betty" Bronson''' (November 17, 1906 – October 19, 1971) was an American television and film actress who began her career during the [[silent film]] era.
'''Elizabeth Ada Bronson''' (November 17, 1906 – October 19, 1971) was an American film and television actress who began her career during the [[silent film]] era.


== Early years ==
== Early years ==
Bronson was born in [[Trenton, New Jersey|Trenton]], [[New Jersey]],<ref name="gsyac">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CdEPgRJyVPIC&pg=PA53&dq=%22Elizabeth+Ada+Bronson%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwivwuuSquLWAhUN0IMKHcpcDmAQ6AEILjAB#v=onepage&q=%22Elizabeth%20Ada%20Bronson%22&f=false|title=Guide to the Silent Years of American Cinema|last1=McCaffrey|first1=Donald W.|last2=Jacobs|first2=Christopher P.|date=1999|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=9780313303456|pages=53–54|language=en|accessdate=9 October 2017}}</ref> to Frank and Nellie Smith Bronson. She moved to [[East Orange, New Jersey]] and attended [[East Orange High School]] until she "convinced her parents to let her move to California to aid her career in films."<ref name="ppss">{{cite book|last1=Hanson|first1=Bruce K.|title=Peter Pan on Stage and Screen, 1904–2010, 2d ed.|date=2011|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786486199|pages=127–128|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k3HHu_CxoWkC&pg=PA127&dq=%22Elizabeth+Ada+Bronson%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwivwuuSquLWAhUN0IMKHcpcDmAQ6AEINTAC#v=onepage&q=%22Elizabeth%20Ada%20Bronson%22&f=false|accessdate=9 October 2017|language=en}}</ref> Subsequently, the entire family moved to California.<ref name=ppss/>
Bronson was born in [[Trenton, New Jersey]],<ref name="gsyac">{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/guidetosilentyea00mcca|url-access=registration|quote=Elizabeth Ada Bronson.|title=Guide to the Silent Years of American Cinema|last1=McCaffrey|first1=Donald W.|last2=Jacobs|first2=Christopher P.|date=1999|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=9780313303456|pages=[https://archive.org/details/guidetosilentyea00mcca/page/53 53]–54|language=en|accessdate=9 October 2017}}</ref> to Frank and Nellie Smith Bronson. She moved to [[East Orange, New Jersey]] and attended [[East Orange High School]] until she "convinced her parents to let her move to California to aid her career in films."<ref name="ppss">{{cite book|last1=Hanson|first1=Bruce K.|title=Peter Pan on Stage and Screen, 1904–2010, 2d ed.|date=2011|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786486199|pages=127–128|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k3HHu_CxoWkC&q=%22Elizabeth+Ada+Bronson%22&pg=PA127|accessdate=9 October 2017|language=en}}</ref> Subsequently, the entire family moved to California.<ref name=ppss/>


==Film career==
==Film career==
Bronson began her film career at the age of 16 with a [[bit part]] in ''Anna Ascends''.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Williams|first1=Mildred|title=Betty Bronson Studied Hard to Become the Movie Peter Pan|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/14282241/betty_bronson/|work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle|date=November 30, 1924|location=New York, Brooklyn|page=81|via = [[Newspapers.com]]|accessdate = October 8, 2017}} {{Open access}}</ref> At 17, she was interviewed by [[J. M. Barrie]], author of ''Peter Pan''. Although the role had been sought by such established actresses as [[Gloria Swanson]] and [[Mary Pickford]], Barrie personally chose Bronson to play the lead in the film adaptation of his work, which was released in 1924. She appeared alongside actresses [[Mary Brian]] (Wendy Darling) and [[Esther Ralston]] (Mrs. Darling), both of whom remained lifelong friends.
Bronson began her film career at the age of 16 with a bit part in ''Anna Ascends''.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Williams|first1=Mildred|title=Betty Bronson Studied Hard to Become the Movie Peter Pan|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/14282241/betty_bronson/|work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle|date=November 30, 1924|location=New York, Brooklyn|page=81|via = [[Newspapers.com]]|accessdate = October 8, 2017}} {{Open access}}</ref> At 17, she was interviewed by [[J. M. Barrie]], author of ''Peter Pan''. Although the role had been sought by such established actresses as [[Gloria Swanson]] and [[Mary Pickford]], Barrie personally chose Bronson to play the lead in the film adaptation of his work, which was released in 1924. She appeared alongside actresses [[Mary Brian]] (Wendy Darling) and [[Esther Ralston]] (Mrs. Darling), both of whom remained lifelong friends.


Bronson had a major role in the 1925 silent film adaptation of ''[[Ben-Hur (1925 film)|Ben-Hur]]''. In 1925, she starred in another Barrie story, ''[[A Kiss for Cinderella (film)|A Kiss for Cinderella]]'', an artfully made film that failed at the box office. She made a successful transition into sound films with ''[[The Singing Fool]]'' (1928), co-starring [[Al Jolson]]. She appeared in the sequel, ''[[Sonny Boy (1929 film)|Sonny Boy]]'', with [[Davey Lee]] in 1929. She was the leading lady opposite [[Jack Benny]] in the romantic drama ''[[The Medicine Man (1930 film)|The Medicine Man]]'' (1930).
Bronson had a major role, that of Mary, mother of Jesus, in the 1925 silent film adaptation of ''[[Ben-Hur (1925 film)|Ben-Hur]]''. In 1925, she starred in another Barrie story, ''[[A Kiss for Cinderella (film)|A Kiss for Cinderella]]'', an artfully made film that failed at the box office. She made a successful transition into sound films with ''[[The Singing Fool]]'' (1928), co-starring [[Al Jolson]]. She appeared in the sequel, ''[[Sonny Boy (1929 film)|Sonny Boy]]'', with [[Davey Lee]] in 1929. She was the leading lady opposite [[Jack Benny]] in the romantic drama ''[[The Medicine Man (1930 film)|The Medicine Man]]'' (1930).


Bronson continued acting until 1933 when she married Ludwig Lauerhass, "a well‐to‐do North Carolinian",<ref name="nyt">{{cite news|title=Betty Bronson, ‘24 Peter Pan In Silent Film, Is Dead at 64|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/10/22/archives/-e-ro-24-peter-n-in-silent-film-is-dead-at-64-iactress-chosen-by.html|accessdate=9 October 2017|work=The New York Times|agency=United Press International|date=October 22, 1971|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171009013739/http://www.nytimes.com/1971/10/22/archives/-e-ro-24-peter-n-in-silent-film-is-dead-at-64-iactress-chosen-by.html|archivedate=9 October 2017}}</ref> with whom she had one child, Ludwig Lauerhass, Jr. She did not appear in films again until ''Yodelin' Kid from Pine Ridge'' (1937) starring [[Gene Autry]]. In the 1960s, she appeared in episodic television and feature films. Her last role was an uncredited part in the television [[biopic]] ''[[Evel Knievel (film)|Evel Knievel]]'' (1971).
Bronson continued acting until 1933 when she married Ludwig Lauerhass, "a well-to-do North Carolinian",<ref name="nyt">{{cite news|title=Betty Bronson, '24 Peter Pan In Silent Film, Is Dead at 64|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/10/22/archives/-e-ro-24-peter-n-in-silent-film-is-dead-at-64-iactress-chosen-by.html|accessdate=9 October 2017|work=The New York Times|agency=United Press International|date=October 22, 1971|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171009013739/http://www.nytimes.com/1971/10/22/archives/-e-ro-24-peter-n-in-silent-film-is-dead-at-64-iactress-chosen-by.html|archivedate=9 October 2017}}</ref> with whom she had one child, Ludwig Lauerhass, Jr. She did not appear in films again until ''Yodelin' Kid from Pine Ridge'' (1937) starring [[Gene Autry]]. In the 1960s, she appeared in episodic television and feature films. Her last role was an uncredited part in the television [[biopic]] ''[[Evel Knievel (1971 film)|Evel Knievel]]'' (1971).


==Bronson, the Media and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr==
==Bronson, the media, and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr==
Bronson was reclusive with the press, but received attention after being seen with [[Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.]] He had his first boyhood crush on her, as he remembered in his autobiography, ''The Salad Days'':
Bronson was reclusive with the press, but received attention after being seen with [[Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.]] He had his first boyhood crush on her, as he remembered in his autobiography ''The Salad Days'':


"Another important picture had just started. It was ''Peter Pan'', directed by a clever caricature of a wildly temperamental movie director, [[Herbert Brenon]]. After exhaustive tests, Betty Bronson, a pretty and gifted girl in her middle teens, was given this famous role... I fell for Betty! It was my first intensely juvenile, deep-sighs-and-bad-sonnets love. It was not fully requited. She only flirted with me. My rival was a fellow in his twenties, a newspaperman who was to become one of New York's most respected theater critics, Richard Watts, Jr. ...In any event, I was so smitten with Betty, I could think of little else, except when I could call on her, even though her overprotective mother was always just in the next room."
<blockquote>Another important picture had just started. It was ''Peter Pan'', directed by a clever caricature of a wildly temperamental movie director, [[Herbert Brenon]]. After exhaustive tests, Betty Bronson, a pretty and gifted girl in her middle teens, was given this famous role... I fell for Betty! It was my first intensely juvenile, deep-sighs-and-bad-sonnets love. It was not fully requited. She only flirted with me. My rival was a fellow in his twenties, a newspaperman who was to become one of New York's most respected theater critics, Richard Watts, Jr. ...In any event, I was so smitten with Betty, I could think of little else, except when I could call on her, even though her overprotective mother was always just in the next room.</blockquote>


It is known that Bronson kept all Fairbanks' letters and spoke of him fondly until her death.{{citation needed|date=August 2015}}
It is known that Bronson kept all Fairbanks' letters and spoke of him fondly until her death.{{citation needed|date=August 2015}}


==Death==
==Death==
On October 19, 1971, Bronson died after a protracted illness in [[Pasadena, California|Pasadena]], [[California]], and was interred at [[Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale)|Forest Lawn Memorial Park]] in [[Glendale, California]].<ref>{{Cite web
On October 19, 1971, Bronson died after a protracted illness in [[Pasadena, California]], and was interred at [[Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale)|Forest Lawn Memorial Park]] in [[Glendale, California]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=FOHgDAAAQBAJ&dq=betty+bronson+forest+lawn&pg=PA90 ''Resting Places'']</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Ellenberger|first1=Allan R.|title=Celebrities in Los Angeles Cemeteries: A Directory|date=2001|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786409839|page=38|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8bOJCgAAQBAJ&q=%22Elizabeth+Ada+Bronson%22&pg=PA38|accessdate=9 October 2017|language=en}}</ref>
| url = https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11520
| title = Betty Bronson (1906 - 1971) - Find A Grave Memorial
| website = www.findagrave.com
| access-date = 2016-02-29
}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Ellenberger|first1=Allan R.|title=Celebrities in Los Angeles Cemeteries: A Directory|date=2001|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786409839|page=38|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8bOJCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA38&dq=%22Elizabeth+Ada+Bronson%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwivwuuSquLWAhUN0IMKHcpcDmAQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=%22Elizabeth%20Ada%20Bronson%22&f=false|accessdate=9 October 2017|language=en}}</ref> She was survived by her son, a brother, a sister, and two grandchildren.<ref name=nyt/>


==Papers==
==Papers==
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==Filmography==
==Filmography==
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| ''[[Anna Ascends]]''
| Bit part
| Bit part
| Uncredited
| Uncredited <br /> '''Lost''' film
|-
|-
| rowspan=5|1923
| rowspan=5|1923
| ''[[Java Head (1923 film)|Java Head]]''
| ''[[Java Head (1923 film)|Java Head]]''
| Janet Ammidon
| Janet Ammidon
| '''Lost''' film
|
|-
|-
| ''The Go-Getter''
| ''The Go-Getter''
| Bit part
| Bit part
| Uncredited
| Uncredited <br /> '''Lost''' film
|-
|-
| ''[[His Children's Children]]''
| ''[[His Children's Children]]''
| Minor Role
| Minor Role
| Uncredited
| Uncredited <br /> '''Lost''' film
|-
|-
| ''[[The Eternal City (1923 film)|The Eternal City]]''
| ''[[The Eternal City (1923 film)|The Eternal City]]''
| Page
| Page
| Uncredited
| Uncredited <br /> '''Incomplete''' film
|-
|-
| ''Twenty-One''
| ''[[Twenty-One (1923 film)|Twenty-One]]''
|
|
| Uncredited
| Uncredited <br /> '''Lost''' film
|-
|-
| 1924
| 1924
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| ''[[Not So Long Ago]]''
| ''[[Not So Long Ago]]''
| Betty Dover
| Betty Dover
|'''Lost''' film
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|
|-
|-
| ''[[The Golden Princess]]''
| ''[[The Golden Princess]]''
| Betty Kent
| Betty Kent
|'''Lost''' film
|
|-
|-
| ''[[A Kiss for Cinderella (film)|A Kiss for Cinderella]]''
| ''[[A Kiss for Cinderella (film)|A Kiss for Cinderella]]''
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| ''[[The Cat's Pajamas]]''
| ''[[The Cat's Pajamas]]''
| Sally Winton
| Sally Winton
|'''Lost''' film
|
|-
|-
| ''[[Paradise (1926 film)|Paradise]]''
| ''[[Paradise (1926 film)|Paradise]]''
| Chrissie
| Chrissie
| '''Lost''' film
|
|-
|-
| ''[[Everybody's Acting]]''
| ''[[Everybody's Acting]]''
| Doris Poole
| Doris Poole
|'''Lost''' film
|
|-
|-
| rowspan=4|1927
| rowspan=4|1927
| ''[[Paradise for Two (1927 film)|Paradise for Two]]''
| ''[[Paradise for Two (1927 film)|Paradise for Two]]''
| Sally Lane
| Sally Lane
|'''Lost''' film
|
|-
|-
| ''[[Ritzy]]''
| ''[[Ritzy]]''
| Ritzy Brown
| Ritzy Brown
|'''Lost''' film
|
|-
|-
| ''[[Open Range (1927 film)|Open Range]]''
| ''[[Open Range (1927 film)|Open Range]]''
| Lucy Blake
| Lucy Blake
|'''Lost''' film
|
|-
|-
| ''[[Brass Knuckles (film)|Brass Knuckles]]''
| ''[[Brass Knuckles (film)|Brass Knuckles]]''
| June Curry
| June Curry
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|
| (*Trailer only: Library of Congress)
|-
|-
| rowspan=2|1928
| rowspan=2|1928
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| ''[[Companionate Marriage]]''
| ''[[Companionate Marriage]]''
| Sally Williams
| Sally Williams
| Alternative title: ''The Jazz Bride''
| Alternative title: ''The Jazz Bride'' <br /> '''Lost''' film
|-
|-
| rowspan=5|1929
| rowspan=5|1929
| ''[[The Bellamy Trial]]''
| ''[[The Bellamy Trial]]''
| Reporter
| Reporter
|'''Incomplete''' film
|
|-
|-
| ''[[Sonny Boy (1929 film)|Sonny Boy]]''
| ''[[Sonny Boy (1929 film)|Sonny Boy]]''
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|
|-
|-
| ''One Stolen Night''
| ''[[One Stolen Night (1929 film)|One Stolen Night]]''
| Jeanne
| Jeanne
|
|
|-
|-
| ''A Modern Sappho''
| ''[[A Modern Sappho]]''
|
|
|
|
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|-
| 1931
| 1931
| ''Lover Come Back''
| ''[[Lover Come Back (1931 film)|Lover Come Back]]''
| Vivian March
| Vivian March
|
|
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|-
| 1937
| 1937
| ''Yodelin' Kid from Pine Ridge''
| ''[[Yodelin' Kid from Pine Ridge]]''
| Milly Baynum
| Milly Baynum
| Alternative title: ''The Hero from Pine Ridge''
| Alternative title: ''The Hero from Pine Ridge''
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| 1968
| 1968
| ''[[Blackbeard's Ghost]]''
| ''[[Blackbeard's Ghost]]''
| Old Lady
| Old Lady #1
|
|
|-
|-
| 1971
| 1971
| ''[[Evel Knievel (film)|Evel Knievel]]''
| ''[[Evel Knievel (1971 film)|Evel Knievel]]''
| Sorority House Mother
| Sorority House Mother
| Uncredited, (final film role)
| Uncredited
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|-
|-
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! Year
! Title
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| Alma Sloan
| Alma Sloan
| 1 episode
| 1 episode
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|-
| 1971
| ''[[Evel Knievel (film)|Evel Knievel]]''
| Sorority House Mother
| Television film<br>Uncredited
|}
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[[Category:Actors from Trenton, New Jersey]]
[[Category:Actors from Trenton, New Jersey]]
[[Category:East Orange High School alumni]]
[[Category:1906 births]]
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Latest revision as of 15:37, 18 September 2024

Betty Bronson
Bronson in the 1920s
Born
Elizabeth Ada Bronson

(1906-11-17)November 17, 1906
Trenton, New Jersey, U.S.
DiedOctober 19, 1971(1971-10-19) (aged 64)
Pasadena, California, U.S.
Resting placeForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California
EducationEast Orange High School
OccupationActress
Years active1922–1971
SpouseLudwig Lauerhass
Children1

Elizabeth Ada Bronson (November 17, 1906 – October 19, 1971) was an American film and television actress who began her career during the silent film era.

Early years

[edit]

Bronson was born in Trenton, New Jersey,[1] to Frank and Nellie Smith Bronson. She moved to East Orange, New Jersey and attended East Orange High School until she "convinced her parents to let her move to California to aid her career in films."[2] Subsequently, the entire family moved to California.[2]

Film career

[edit]

Bronson began her film career at the age of 16 with a bit part in Anna Ascends.[3] At 17, she was interviewed by J. M. Barrie, author of Peter Pan. Although the role had been sought by such established actresses as Gloria Swanson and Mary Pickford, Barrie personally chose Bronson to play the lead in the film adaptation of his work, which was released in 1924. She appeared alongside actresses Mary Brian (Wendy Darling) and Esther Ralston (Mrs. Darling), both of whom remained lifelong friends.

Bronson had a major role, that of Mary, mother of Jesus, in the 1925 silent film adaptation of Ben-Hur. In 1925, she starred in another Barrie story, A Kiss for Cinderella, an artfully made film that failed at the box office. She made a successful transition into sound films with The Singing Fool (1928), co-starring Al Jolson. She appeared in the sequel, Sonny Boy, with Davey Lee in 1929. She was the leading lady opposite Jack Benny in the romantic drama The Medicine Man (1930).

Bronson continued acting until 1933 when she married Ludwig Lauerhass, "a well-to-do North Carolinian",[4] with whom she had one child, Ludwig Lauerhass, Jr. She did not appear in films again until Yodelin' Kid from Pine Ridge (1937) starring Gene Autry. In the 1960s, she appeared in episodic television and feature films. Her last role was an uncredited part in the television biopic Evel Knievel (1971).

Bronson, the media, and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr

[edit]

Bronson was reclusive with the press, but received attention after being seen with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. He had his first boyhood crush on her, as he remembered in his autobiography The Salad Days:

Another important picture had just started. It was Peter Pan, directed by a clever caricature of a wildly temperamental movie director, Herbert Brenon. After exhaustive tests, Betty Bronson, a pretty and gifted girl in her middle teens, was given this famous role... I fell for Betty! It was my first intensely juvenile, deep-sighs-and-bad-sonnets love. It was not fully requited. She only flirted with me. My rival was a fellow in his twenties, a newspaperman who was to become one of New York's most respected theater critics, Richard Watts, Jr. ...In any event, I was so smitten with Betty, I could think of little else, except when I could call on her, even though her overprotective mother was always just in the next room.

It is known that Bronson kept all Fairbanks' letters and spoke of him fondly until her death.[citation needed]

Death

[edit]

On October 19, 1971, Bronson died after a protracted illness in Pasadena, California, and was interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.[5][6]

Papers

[edit]

The UCLA Library Special Collections department houses the "Betty Bronson papers, 1920-1970", containing "materials related to Bronson's career and includes clippings, photographs, correspondence, scrapbooks, and personal and professional ephemera."[7]

Filmography

[edit]
Film
Year Film Role Notes
1922 Anna Ascends Bit part Uncredited
Lost film
1923 Java Head Janet Ammidon Lost film
The Go-Getter Bit part Uncredited
Lost film
His Children's Children Minor Role Uncredited
Lost film
The Eternal City Page Uncredited
Incomplete film
Twenty-One Uncredited
Lost film
1924 Peter Pan Peter Pan
1925 Are Parents People? Lita Hazlitt
Not So Long Ago Betty Dover Lost film
The Golden Princess Betty Kent Lost film
A Kiss for Cinderella Cinderella (Jane)
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ Mary Alternative title: Ben-Hur
1926 The Cat's Pajamas Sally Winton Lost film
Paradise Chrissie Lost film
Everybody's Acting Doris Poole Lost film
1927 Paradise for Two Sally Lane Lost film
Ritzy Ritzy Brown Lost film
Open Range Lucy Blake Lost film
Brass Knuckles June Curry
1928 The Singing Fool Grace
Companionate Marriage Sally Williams Alternative title: The Jazz Bride
Lost film
1929 The Bellamy Trial Reporter Incomplete film
Sonny Boy Aunt Winigred Canfield
One Stolen Night Jeanne
A Modern Sappho
The Locked Door Helen Reagan
1930 The Medicine Man Mamie Goltz
1931 Lover Come Back Vivian March
1932 Midnight Patrol Ellen Gray
1937 Yodelin' Kid from Pine Ridge Milly Baynum Alternative title: The Hero from Pine Ridge
1961 Pocketful of Miracles Mayor's wife Uncredited
1962 Who's Got the Action? Mrs. Boatwright Uncredited
1964 The Naked Kiss Miss Josephine Alternative title: The Iron Kiss
1968 Blackbeard's Ghost Old Lady #1
1971 Evel Knievel Sorority House Mother Uncredited
Television
Year Title Role Notes
1960 My Three Sons Mrs. Butler 1 episode
1964 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre 1 episode
Grindl Mrs. Cooper 1 episode
1965 Run for Your Life Alma Sloan 1 episode

References

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  1. ^ McCaffrey, Donald W.; Jacobs, Christopher P. (1999). Guide to the Silent Years of American Cinema. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 53–54. ISBN 9780313303456. Retrieved October 9, 2017. Elizabeth Ada Bronson.
  2. ^ a b Hanson, Bruce K. (2011). Peter Pan on Stage and Screen, 1904–2010, 2d ed. McFarland. pp. 127–128. ISBN 9780786486199. Retrieved October 9, 2017.
  3. ^ Williams, Mildred (November 30, 1924). "Betty Bronson Studied Hard to Become the Movie Peter Pan". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. New York, Brooklyn. p. 81. Retrieved October 8, 2017 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  4. ^ "Betty Bronson, '24 Peter Pan In Silent Film, Is Dead at 64". The New York Times. United Press International. October 22, 1971. Archived from the original on October 9, 2017. Retrieved October 9, 2017.
  5. ^ Resting Places
  6. ^ Ellenberger, Allan R. (2001). Celebrities in Los Angeles Cemeteries: A Directory. McFarland. p. 38. ISBN 9780786409839. Retrieved October 9, 2017.
  7. ^ "Betty Bronson papers, 1920-1970". Online Archive of California. Archived from the original on October 9, 2017. Retrieved October 9, 2017.
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