Heroine of the Month: Nancy Caswell
Many actors and actresses leave film for many reason to never return, Nancy Caswell has the interesting distinction of leaving acting twice. She was a child actress who started her film career at age four in The Kingdom of Love (1917). She also appeared in Riders of the Purple Sage (1918) and Under Crimson Skies (1920).
At that point she dropped out of film, only to return over ten years later as an adult with bit parts in Murder at Vanities (1934) and The Whole Town Is Talking (1935). Her biggest role was also her final film, joining many other silent film alumnus like Rex Lease and Wiliam Farnum in Stage and Screen’s epic serial Custer’s Last Stand (1936), playing the daughter of an ex-confedrate doctor looking for a hidden cave of gold on sacred Indian land, which inadvertantly leads to the battle at Little Big Horn. After this she left films again permantly.
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