Margaret Mayo papers 1882-1970 1901-1950

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Margaret Mayo papers 1882-1970 1901-1950

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Margaret Mayo (1882-1951) was an American actress and dramatist. Her papers document Mayo's professional life as an actress, playwright, and screenwriter; her position as head of the Scenario Department of Goldwyn Pictures Corporation; her work overseas entertaining the troops during World War I; her real estate holdings in the Hudson Valley; her marriage to actor, director, playwright, and dramatist Edgar Selwyn; and her interests in spiritualism and animal welfare.

20.83 linear feet; 50 boxes

The New York Public Library. Billy Rose Theatre Division.

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Mayo, Margaret, 1882-1951

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Margaret Mayo (November 19, 1882-Februrary 25, 1951) was an American actress and dramatist. She was born as Lillian Slatten in Brownsville, Illinois, to Warren Slatten and Elizabeth Slatten (née Cavender). After her parents divorced, Mayo moved with her mother to Portland, Oregon, where she attended school at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Salem, Oregon. Mayo moved to New York City in her early teens and won a small part in the play Thoroughbred at the Garrick Theatre in 1896. S...