Martha Mansfield

Martha Mansfield

From Wikipedia Martha Mansfield (July 14, 1899 – November 30, 1923) was an American actress in silent films and vaudeville stage plays. She was born Martha Ehrlich in New York City to Maurice and Harriett Gibson Ehrlich. She had a younger sister, Edith, born in 1905. Although many biographies state that Martha was born in Mansfield, Ohio, her birth record and death certificate both have New York City as her place of birth. Her mother, Harriet, was from Mansfield, Ohio, having emigrated there from Ireland in 1885. Martha later adopted the name of the town as her stage name. Her first Hollywood movie was Civilian Clothes (1920) directed by Hugh Ford. She gained prominence as Millicent Carew in the film adaptation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, which starred John Barrymore. She then signed with Selznick Pictures where she was cast with Eugene O'Brien in The Perfect Lover (1919). In 1921, Mansfield returned to the stage in a vaudeville tour. She appeared in two independent films the following year: Queen of the Moulin Rouge and Till We Meet Again. She spent the remainder of the year touring the vaudeville circuit. In 1923, Mansfield completed her contract for Selznick and signed with Fox Film Corporation. Her first film for Fox was The Silent Command, starring Edmund Lowe and Béla Lugosi. The final completed features in her short film career were Potash and Permutter and The Leavenworth Case, both from 1923. On November 29, 1923, while working on location in San Antonio, Texas on the film The Warrens of Virginia, Mansfield was severely burned when a tossed match ignited her Civil War costume of hoop skirts and flimsy ruffles. Mansfield was playing the role of Agatha Warren and had just finished her scenes and retired to a car when her clothing burst into flames. Her neck and face were saved when leading man Wilfred Lytell threw his heavy overcoat over her. The chauffeur of Mansfield's car was burned badly on his hands while trying to remove the burning clothing from the actress. The fire was put out, but she sustained substantial burns to her body. She was rushed to a hospital where she died less than twenty-four hours later of "burns of all extremities, general toxemia and suppression of urine". Mansfield was 24 years old. Accompanied by actor Phillip Shorey, Mansfield's body was transported back to her home in New York City. She was interred at the Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx.

  • Title: Martha Mansfield
  • Popularity: 0.643
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1899-07-13
  • Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
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  • Also Known As: Martha Ehrlich, Martha Early
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Martha Mansfield Movies

  • 1920
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    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

    6.8 1920 HD

    A doctor's research into the roots of evil turns him into a hideous depraved fiend.

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  • 1920
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    Mothers of Men

    Mothers of Men

    5 1920 HD

    Young Austrian girl Marie Helmar, is left penniless by the death of her father and disgraced by Prussian officer Captain Von Pfaffen, she flees to...

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  • 1921
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    Society Snobs

    Society Snobs

    1 1921 HD

    Lorenzo Carilo selects more-or-less menial jobs at which to make a living, other more "select" jobs not paying enough, and then he meets and falls in...

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  • 1917
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    Max in a Taxi

    Max in a Taxi

    4.8 1917 HD

    A wealthy alcoholic is disowned by his father for his drunken behavior. Now penniless, he takes a job as a taxi driver, despite not knowing how to...

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  • 1917
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    Max Wants a Divorce

    Max Wants a Divorce

    4.9 1917 HD

    Max is forced to choose between losing his newly wedded wife and a fortune. He hits upon a brilliant scheme: He will give his wife grounds for a...

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  • 1923
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    Potash and Perlmutter

    Potash and Perlmutter

    1 1923 HD

    The film is based on an ethnic Jewish comedy with characters created by Montague Glass and Charles Klein.

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    The Wonderful Chance

    The Wonderful Chance

    5.4 1920 HD

    Upon leaving prison, an ex con vows to go straight, but circumstances force him to return to crime. Meanwhile, a gang of crooks kidnaps a visiting...

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  • 1923
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    The Silent Command

    The Silent Command

    5 1923 HD

    A distinguished young Naval officer from a celebrated military falls prey to a terrorist and his seductress accomplice bent on destroying the Panama...

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  • 1921
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    His Brother's Keeper

    His Brother's Keeper

    1 1921 HD

    Rex Radcliffe, vice president of the Northern Atlantic Railroad, is opposed by company president William Harding in his desire to put over a deal...

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  • 1922
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    Queen of the Moulin Rouge

    Queen of the Moulin Rouge

    1 1922 HD

    Queen of the Moulin Rouge is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by Ray C. Smallwood and starring Martha Mansfield, Joseph Striker and Jane...

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  • 1923
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    Fog Bound

    Fog Bound

    1 1923 HD

    Silent film directed by Irvin Willat

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  • 1921
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    The Last Door

    The Last Door

    1 1921 HD

    The Last Door (1921)

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  • 1923
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    Is Money Everything?

    Is Money Everything?

    6 1923 HD

    A farmer, unhappy with his life, decides to go the city to try and make his fortune. He takes a friend along with him. The two of them become...

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  • 1917
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    Max Comes Across

    Max Comes Across

    1 1917 HD

    The adventures of Max Linder, some based on real events, some fictional, as he travels by ocean liner from France to America.

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  • 1924
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    The Warrens of Virginia

    The Warrens of Virginia

    1 1924 HD

    As the Civil War begins, Ned Burton leaves his Southern love Agatha Warren and joins the Union army. He is later protected and saved from death by...

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  • 1920
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    Civilian Clothes

    Civilian Clothes

    1 1920 HD

    During the First World War, Captain Sam McGinnis marries Florence Lanham, a Salvation Army worker in France. When she mistakenly hears that Sam has...

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  • 1918
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    Broadway Bill

    Broadway Bill

    1 1918 HD

    Bill Clayton is known as Broadway Bill because he is the most prominent Bill in the night life of the white way. Muriel loves Bill, but loathes his...

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  • 1918
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    The Spoiled Girl

    The Spoiled Girl

    1 1918 HD

    James Montgomery Flagg first draws his sketch of the girl, and then tearing it from its frame reveals the real girl lounging in bed with the pouting...

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  • 1919
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    The Perfect Lover

    The Perfect Lover

    1 1919 HD

    Brian Lazar returns to his shabby dwelling after pawning a valuable ring. A woman, accompanied by a detective, accuses him of being a thief, but,...

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  • 1919
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    Should a Husband Forgive?

    Should a Husband Forgive?

    1 1919 HD

    After Mary Carroll's husband learns that she has had an affair, he challenges her former lover to a duel and is killed. Mary is thrown out by her...

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  • 1921
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    Women Men Love

    Women Men Love

    1 1921 HD

    Prosperous architect David Hunter, lives with his wife Evelyn, who loves gambling and admiration, as well as his small daughter Dora, and his...

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  • 1921
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    Gilded Lies

    Gilded Lies

    1 1921 HD

    When Keene McComb, a young explorer on an expedition to the North Pole, is given up for lost, his fiancée, Hester Thorpe, is coerced by an...

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  • 1921
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    A Man of Stone

    A Man of Stone

    1 1921 HD

    Capt. Deering, a British war hero whose exploits in the Arabian desert have earned him the nickname "The Man of Stone", returns home to London to...

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  • 1922
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    Till We Meet Again

    Till We Meet Again

    1 1922 HD

    Swindler Arthur Montrose has tricked Marion Bates into getting committed to an insane asylum, after cheating her and her friends out of all of their...

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  • 1923
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    The Woman in Chains

    The Woman in Chains

    1 1923 HD

    A disloyal wife abandons her husband and child to become a cabaret dancer. Her lover goes to jail to protect her. In his absence she marries an...

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  • 1923
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    Youthful Cheaters

    Youthful Cheaters

    1 1923 HD

    Ted MacDonald and his father, Edmund, sail to the South Seas to treat a cholera epidemic among the natives. Upon their return to Long Island, New...

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  • 1923
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    The Little Red Schoolhouse

    The Little Red Schoolhouse

    1 1923 HD

    Jeb Russell and his son Matt run a bootlegging operation in the basement of the New England schoolhouse where Mercy Brent teaches. When her...

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  • 1923
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    The Leavenworth Case

    The Leavenworth Case

    1 1923 HD

    Eleanor Leavenworth (Seena Owen) is about to be arrested for the murder of her rich bachelor uncle, and suspicion is cast on each member of the...

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  • 1919
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    The Hand Invisible

    The Hand Invisible

    1 1919 HD

    Steel magnate Rodney Graham divorces his wife, Alice, after she suffers an injury that renders her unable to give him an heir. He pursues debutante...

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