Meiser, Edith (1898–1993)
Meiser, Edith (1898–1993)
American actress. Born May 9, 1898, in Detroit, Michigan; died Sept 26, 1993, in New York, NY; m. Tom McKnight (div.).
Made stage debut with Jessie Bonstelle's company in Detroit (1921); made Broadway debut as Matilda Mayhew in The New Way (1923), followed by Fata Morgana, The Guardsman, He, The Strangler Fig (which she also adapted), Jupiter Laughs, Mexican Hayride, Sabrina Fair, Happy Hunting, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, and many editions of the Garrick Gaieties; wrote the play The Wooden O and the novel Death Catches Up with Mr. Kluck (filmed as Death on the Air).
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