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Sylvia Breamer(1897-1943)

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Sylvia Breamer
Sam Purdy, a banker-turned-politician-turned-sheep farmer is repeatedly blackmailed by his half-brother because of their love for a woman named Mary.
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The First Degree (1923)
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Sylvia Breamer was one of a flock of Australians who came to Hollywood in the early silent era. She had been a stage actress in her native Sydney for several years, and had played in several Australian productions of American stage plays, which met with great success. Hoping to capitalize on that success, she traveled to the US to try her luck on Broadway. She wasn't there long before word got to Hollywood of an extraordinarily beautiful young Australian actress who had just hit Broadway, and soon she found herself making screen tests for several different studios.

Breamer hit Hollywood in 1917 and was put in several Charles Ray comedies for Triangle, and soon was working with such leading men as William S. Hart, Thomas Meighan, and Herbert Rawlinson. She continued making films until 1926. She tried her hand at talkies and made one in 1936, Too Many Parents (1936), but apparently either didn't care for them or was intimidated by them, and left films for good.

Breamer died in New York City in 1943, at the tragically young age of 45. No details of her personal life or death are available.
BornJune 9, 1897
DiedJune 7, 1943(45)
BornJune 9, 1897
DiedJune 7, 1943(45)
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Known for

Gertrude Astor in Robes of Sin (1924)
Robes of Sin
6.5
  • Ruth Rogens
  • 1924
Sylvia Breamer in Dawn (1919)
Dawn
  • Dorothy Parkman
  • 1919
Calvert's Valley (1922)
Calvert's Valley
  • Hester Rymal
  • 1922
Doubling for Romeo (1921)
Doubling for Romeo
6.9
  • Lulu
  • Juliet
  • 1921

Credits

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Actress



  • Frances Farmer, Sherwood Bailey, George Ernest, Billy Lee, Lester Matthews, and Buster Phelps in Too Many Parents (1936)
    Too Many Parents
    6.4
    • Malloy
    • 1936
  • Lightning Reporter
    • Ruth Barlow
    • 1926
  • Marie Prevost in Up in Mabel's Room (1926)
    Up in Mabel's Room
    6.9
    • Alicia
    • 1926
  • Too Much Youth (1925)
    Too Much Youth
    • Marguerite
    • 1925
  • Sylvia Breamer and Frank Mayo in Women and Gold (1925)
    Women and Gold
    • Myra Barclay
    • 1925
  • Gertrude Astor in Robes of Sin (1924)
    Robes of Sin
    6.5
    • Ruth Rogens
    • 1924
  • Reckless Romance (1924)
    Reckless Romance
    • Edith Somers
    • 1924
  • Sylvia Breamer, Frank Mayo, and Myrtle Stedman in The Woman on the Jury (1924)
    The Woman on the Jury
    • Betty Brown
    • 1924
  • Corinne Griffith in Lilies of the Field (1924)
    Lilies of the Field
    6.9
    • Vera
    • 1924
  • Her Temporary Husband (1923)
    Her Temporary Husband
    • Blanche Ingram
    • 1923
  • Colleen Moore in Flaming Youth (1923)
    Flaming Youth
    7.0
    • Dee Fentriss
    • 1923
  • Thundergate (1923)
    Thundergate
    • Alberta Hayward
    • 1923
  • John Bowers, Marjorie Daw, Frankie Lee, and Gertrude Messinger in The Barefoot Boy (1923)
    The Barefoot Boy
    • Milicent Carter
    • 1923
  • Bavu (1923)
    Bavu
    • Olga Stropik
    • 1923
  • The Radio-Active Bomb
    Short
    • Nadja
    • 1923

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Personal details

  • Alternative name
    • Sylvia Bremer
  • Born
    • June 9, 1897
    • Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
  • Died
    • June 7, 1943
    • New York City, New York, USA(heart attack)
  • Spouses
      Edmund R. BohanJuly 13, 1931 - May 1939 (divorced)
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