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Vera Lewis

Biography

Vera Lewis

Overview

  • Born
    June 10, 1873 · New York City, New York, USA
  • Died
    February 8, 1956 · Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA (arteriosclerosis)
  • Birth name
    Vera Mackey
  • Nickname
    • Lou, Mama Lou
  • Height
    5′ 8″ (1.73 m)

Biography

  • Vera Lewis was born on June 10, 1873 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for The Roaring Twenties (1939), Betty in Search of a Thrill (1915) and Four Daughters (1938). She was married to Ralph Lewis. She died on February 8, 1956 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.

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  • Spouse
      Ralph Lewis

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  • Sharp-featured small part character actress who played innumerable vitriolic, thoroughly unpleasant spinsters, gossips, stepmothers, landladies and other assorted harridans and dragons from the mid-1910's to the mid-40's. Unlike her screen personae, she was said to have been a really sweet person in real life.
  • Was the woman in theater audience who screams when Kong escapes in King Kong (1933).
  • Born NY city. Stage actress. Entered films 1914. Appeared in 25+ silents, 60+ talkies. Appears in Birth of a Nation and Intolerance multi-line-biography.

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