Ramona Langley
Born(1893-07-09)July 9, 1893
Los Angeles, California, US
DiedNovember 11, 1983(1983-11-11) (aged 90)
Los Angeles, California, US
OccupationActress
Spouse(s)Clarence English (m. 1913; div. 1938)
Clare Woolwine (m. 1938–his death)

Ramona Langley (July 9, 1893 – November 11, 1983) was an American film actress who was active in Hollywood during the silent era. She was known primarily for her work in comedies for Universal and Nestor.[1][2][3]

Biography

A native of Los Angeles, Ramona was born in 1893 to John Langley and Mary Niles.[4] She would later tell reporters she was named after Helen Hunt Jackson's novel Ramona.[1]

In 1913, the same year she began appearing in one-reel films for the Nestor Comedy Company, she married industrialist Clarence English, and the pair relocated to a large ranch near Chihuahua, Mexico. Less than a year later, the pair evacuated their home and returned to Hollywood as a result of the Mexican Border War.[1]

Ramona was severely injured in 1914 on the set of the Universal Pictures film, She Was Only a Working Girl, after she and her male co-stars fell on a slippery concrete floor. Crushed under the weight of the men, Ramona suffered major internal injuries and was reportedly urged by director Al Christie to continue the shoot.[5] Despite lingering injuries that kept her in a sanatorium bed for months, the studio refused to compensate her for her suffering, and she was replaced in the finished film by Victoria Forde.[5][6]

After her recovery, she retired from filmmaking and focused on raising her three children. Eventually, in 1938, she and English separated.[7] That same year, Langley married her second husband, politician Clare Woolwine, in Lake Tahoe.[8] Woolwine died a year later after suffering a heart attack.[9]

Ramona died on November 11, 1983, in Los Angeles.

Select filmography

  • Scooped by a Hencoop (1914)
  • His Royal Pants (1914)
  • Twixt Love and Flour (1914)
  • When Billy Proposed (1914)
  • Snobbery (1914)
  • Cupid's Close Shave (1914)
  • When Ursus Threw the Bull (1914)
  • And the Villain Still Pursued Her (1914)
  • A Tale of the West (1914)
  • Teaching Dad a Lesson (1913)
  • A Woman's Way (1913)
  • Her Friend, the Butler (1913)
  • Locked Out at Twelve (1913)
  • When He Lost to Win (1913)
  • An Elephant on His Hands (1913)
  • The Golden Princess Mine (1913)
  • Love, Luck and a Paint Brush (1913)
  • His Wife's Burglar (1913)
  • Western Hearts (1913)
  • Curses! Said the Villain (1913)
  • A Man of the People (1913)
  • What the Wild Waves Did (1913)
  • Under Western Skies (1913)
  • Their Two Kids (1913)
  • His Crazy Job (1913)
  • The Battle of Bull Con (1913)
  • The Girl Ranchers (1913)
  • Won by a Skirt (1913)
  • The Trail of the Serpent (1913)
  • Cupid's Bad Aim (1913)
  • Weighed in the Balance (1913)
  • Some Runner (1913)
  • Hawkeye to the Rescue (1913)
  • The Pretender (1913)

References

  1. 1 2 3 Price, Gertrude M. (24 Jan 1914). "Refugee from Mexico Becomes "Movie" Star!". The Sacramento Star. Retrieved 2021-12-31.
  2. ↑ Birchard, Robert S. (2009). Early Universal City. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7385-7023-5.
  3. ↑ Grau, Robert (1914). The Theatre of Science: A Volume of Progress and Achievement in the Motion Picture Industry. Broadway publishing Company.
  4. ↑ "The Unknown Touches the Heart". The Capital Journal. 17 May 1913. Retrieved 2021-12-31.
  5. 1 2 "Motion Picture Actors Undergo Great Dangers". Marysville Evening Democrat. 7 May 1914. Retrieved 2021-12-31.
  6. ↑ "In Nestor Film". The Marion Star. 7 Feb 1914. Retrieved 2021-12-31.
  7. ↑ "Industrialist's Wife Granted Divorce in Reno". The Los Angeles Times. 13 Aug 1938. Retrieved 2021-12-31.
  8. ↑ "Lake Tahoe Rites Set Today". The Los Angeles Times. 12 Aug 1938. Retrieved 2021-12-31.
  9. ↑ "Former Nashville Resident Dies". Nashville Banner. 27 Oct 1939. Retrieved 2021-12-31.


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