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Mary Boland
American actress (1882–1965)
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Mary Boland (born Marie Anne Boland; January 28, 1882 – June 23, 1965) was an American stage and film actress.
Early years
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Boland was the daughter of repertory actor William Augustus Boland,[1] and his wife Mary Cecilia Hatton.
She had an older sister named Sara.[2] The family later moved to Detroit.
Boland went to school at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Detroit.
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By age fifteen she had left school and was performing on stage.
In 1901, she began acting on stage with a local stock theater company.[1]
Career
She debuted on Broadway in 1907 in the play The Ranger[3] with Dustin Farnum and had appeared in eleven Broadway productions, notably with John Drew, becoming his "leading lady in New York and on the road."[4] She made her silent film debut for Triangle Studios in 1915.
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