Norma Whalley

Norma Whalley was a theatre and film actress active in the United States and Britain.^[1][2][3]

Biography

Whalley was the daughter of Henry Octavius Whalley, a doctor working in Australia.^[4]

During the late 1890s she toured South Africa, meeting Paul Kruger, president of the Transvaal Republic soon after the Jameson Raid.^[5]

In 1901 she was married to J. Sherrie Matthews,^[6] an American vaudeville performer, who since mid-1900 had been prevented from working due to ill health,^[7] and by 1902 was permanently disabled after a stroke of paralysis.^[8] In 1904 she divorced Matthews to marry Percival Clarke (later Sir Percival^[9]), son of Sir Edward George Clarke.^[1][4][10]

Acting career

Theatre

Whalley was brought to the United States for a production by George Edwardes.

She worked in the Chicago and New York for several years from the late 1890s. Whalley appeared in the Broadway production of The Man in the Moon between April and November 1899.^[11][12]

Selected filmography

• Mr. Gilfil's Love Story (1920)
• Colonel Newcome (1920)
• Greatheart (1921)
• The Mystery of Mr. Bernard Brown (1921)
• Open Country (1922)
• The Pointing Finger (1922)
• The Pauper Millionaire (1922)
• Half a Truth (1922)
• The Crimson Circle (1922)
• A Gipsy Cavalier (1922)
• The Knight Errant (1922)
• The Experiment (1922)
• Sliver Blaze (1923)
• The Virgin Queen (1923)
• The Luck of the Navy (1927)
• Bitter Sweet (1933)
• This Is the Life (1933)
• The Camels Are Coming (1934)

References

1. 1 2 "Norma Whalley Weds". The Evening Telegraph. 6 August 1904. Retrieved June 21, 2011. 
2. ↑ "WHALLEY, Norma". BFI Film & TV Database. British Film Institute. Retrieved June 22, 2011. 
3. ↑ "Miss Normah i.e. Norma Whalley picture / Johnston & Hoffmann". National Library of Australia. Retrieved June 21, 2011. 
4. 1 2 "Sir Percival Clarke Dead". Courier-Mail. 7 October 1936. Retrieved June 21, 2011. 
5. ↑ "Thinks Kruger's Manners Bad - Norma Whalley, a Vaudeville Actress Tells of Her Experiences in South Africa". Chicago Daily Tribune. 30 December 1899. Miss Whalley was introduced to President Kruger...She was in Johannesburg just after the Jameson Raid  |access-date= requires |url= (help)
6. ↑ "Sherrie Matthews A Benedict". Toledo Bee. 7 April 1901. Retrieved June 21, 2011. 
7. ↑ "Benefit for J. Sherrie Matthews". The New York Times. 1901-05-19. Retrieved 2011-06-21. 
8. ↑ "Benefit for J. S. Mathews". The New York Times. 1902-06-01. Retrieved 2011-06-21. 
9. ↑ "Supplement to the London Gazette" (PDF). 1 January 1931. Retrieved June 21, 2011. 
10. ↑ "NOTES.". The Queenslander (Brisbane, Qld. : 1866-1939). Brisbane, Qld.: National Library of Australia. 8 October 1904. p. 26. Retrieved 21 June 2011. 
11. ↑ "Norma Whalley Theatre Credits". BroadwayWorld.com. Retrieved June 21, 2011. 
12. ↑ "Norma Whalley". IBDB.com. Retrieved June 21, 2011. 

External links

• Norma Whalley at the Internet Movie Database