JULIA MARLOWE

Julia Marlowe (born Sarah Frances Frost in 1865) was an English-born stage actress from the 1890s to the 1920s. When she was 4, her family moved to the U.S. She began performing in her early teens on the stage in Cincinnati in Gilbert & Sullivan and later Shakespeare. She moved to New York, got voice training, and changed her name to Julia Marlowe. In the late 1880s, she got her first Broadway roles. She became the leading Broadway actress alongside actor E.H. Sothern, who she married in 1911 (it was her second marriage) until he passed away in 1933. Some of her works include: Colinette (in the title role), When Knighthood Was in Flower, and Hamlet (as Ophelia). She passed away in 1950 at the age of 85.