GLADYS BROCKWELL

Gladys Brockwell was an actress from the 1910s to the 1920s. She was born in 1894 and started acting for D.W. Griffith in 1913. She became a leading actress at William Fox, and she was one of their top actresses throughout the 1920s. When sound came in, she made the transition well, appearing in a number of early sound movies. However, tragedy struck in 1929, when Gladys was a passenger in a car driven by her boyfriend, and the car went over a cliff, and she sustained massive injuries, and died six days later, and she was only 34. Her boyfriend survived.