Letter and Photographs of Clara Morris

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Letter and Photographs of Clara Morris

1902

https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/u4353294

In a letter to Michael O'Donnell Morris refers to their mutual interest in the Irish dance tune "Garryowen." The collection also contains three photographs of Morris clipped from magazines; two of the same pose in street clothes and one in the role of "Leah, the Forsaken." A caption accompanying one of the former notes she has given up a role as a vaudeville star to write.

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University of Virginia. Library

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Morris, Clara, 1848-1925

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Actress Clara Morris was born in Toronto and moved with her mother to Cleveland, Ohio. She became a ballet girl in the resident company of the Cleveland Academy of Music; after nine years of training with that company she played a leading lady at Wood's Theatre in Cincinnati in 1869. She made her New York debut in September in "Man and Wife," directed by Augustin Daly at his Fifth Avenue Theatre. She worked with Daly in a series of highly emotional roles over the next three years in such plays a...

O'Donnell, Michael S., fl. 1892-1915,

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