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American actress and vaudeville performer

Audrey Maple
Maple c.1917
BornElsie H. Schroeder
1899
Trenton, New Jersey, U.S.
DiedApril 18, 1971(1971-04-18) (aged 71–72)
New York City, U.S.
OccupationActress
Years active1908–1940
Spouse Ernest A. Zadig ​(m. 1940)​

Audrey Maple (born Elsie H. Schroeder; 1899 – April 18, 1971) was an American actress, singer, and vaudeville performer.

Early life

Audrey Maple was born Elsie H. Schroeder in Trenton, New Jersey. Her father was a musician.

Career

Audrey Maple, from a 1907 publication.

Audrey Maple performed in vaudeville in a novelty act called Pianophiends. In the operetta The Love Waltz (1908-1909), she was half of a highly publicized "eight-minute kiss" during a dance scene.

She appeared in Broadway productions, mostly musical comedies, including The Arcadians (1910), The Firefly (1912-1913), Molly O (1916), Katinka (1916), Good Night, Paul (1917), Her Regiment by Victor Herbert (1917), Monte Cristo Jr. (1919), Tangerine (1921-1922), Princess April (1924), Naughty Riquette (1926), My Princess (1927), Sunny Days (1928), Angela (1928-1929), and The Street Singer (1929-1930).

Maple appeared in two films, The Plumbers are Coming (1929) and Enlighten Thy Daughter (1934).

Personal life

Maple's personal life involved enough gossip, scandal, and legal entanglements to prompt commentary in newspapers: "What again! It's perfectly terrible the way wives pick on poor little Audrey Maple, the pretty musical comedy star, and try to make out that she is a naughty girl." In 1928 she survived a car accident in Chicago that killed one of her co-stars, dancer Rosalie Claire.

In 1940, Audrey Maple married engineer and inventor Ernest A. Zadig, and retired from the stage. She died in New York in 1971, aged 72 years.

References

  1. "Audrey Maple's Career" Evening Public Ledger (October 7, 1922): 11. via Newspapers.comOpen access icon
  2. "Stageland" The Scrap Book (September 1907): 457.
  3. "Theatrical Chatter" Buffalo Enquirer (May 11, 1908): 2. via Newspapers.comOpen access icon
  4. "At Poli's: 'The Love Waltz' With Its Eight-Minute Kiss" Hartford Courant (January 30, 1909): 11. via Newspapers.comOpen access icon
  5. "Cort: Molly O'" Theatre Magazine (July 1916): 11.
  6. "'Katinka' Opens at Schubert" Boston Post (August 29, 1916): 7. via Newspapers.comOpen access icon
  7. "Hudson: Good Night, Paul" Theatre Magazine (October 1917): 207.
  8. "The Theatres Before the Holidays" The Sun (December 9, 1917): 4. via Chronicling AmericaOpen access icon
  9. "Bewitching Music in 'Her Regiment'" New York Times (November 13, 1917): 11. via Newspapers.comOpen access icon
  10. Thomas S. Hischak, Broadway Plays and Musicals (McFarland 2012): 19, 143, 307, 318. ISBN 9780786453092
  11. "Come Audrey, the Witness Chair is Waiting Again!" Pittsburgh Press (April 26, 1925): 115. via Newspapers.comOpen access icon
  12. "Romance Loses Steiner his Heritage and Wife's Love" Daily News (May 27, 1925): 3. via Newspapers.comOpen access icon
  13. "Help! Those Stars Stole Our Husbands!" Tampa Tribune (October 25, 1925): 47. via Newspapers.comOpen access icon
  14. "Audrey Maple Escapes Fate of Companion" Daily News (June 18, 1928): 2. via Newspapers.comOpen access icon
  15. Bob Thomas, "Genius? No, Just Practical Inventor" Florida Today (September 26, 1973): 1D. via Newspapers.comOpen access icon
  16. "Audrey Maple Dies; Actress of '20s, 72" New York Times (April 19, 1971): 40.

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