Alta Allen

Alta Allen (born Alta Crowin) (September 6, 1904 – July 24, 1998) was an American actress.

Allen was born as Alta Crowin in Oakland, California in 1904 to a Scottish mother, Jessie (née Robertson), and W. J. Crowin, who hailed from the West Coast. She made her first professional performance at an Oakland theater in a production of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. Allen's role in this production was as Beth March. She was ten years old at the time.[citation needed ]

Allen was "one of the most popular of Oakland's younger social set."

Allen's early professional experience included acting in stock theater in Oakland and directing and performing in the Fairmont's Rainbow Lane revue.

In 1920, William Fox, the founder of the Fox Film Corporation, observed Allen as she performed the leading role at a musical revue within the Fairmont Hotel. Subsequently, she signed a contract with his studios, although she would only perform one role in any silent film released by Fox Film: the 1921 comedy Skirts. She would subsequently sign a contract with Universal Studios, and later appeared in several films released by this corporation, including The Marriage Chance (1922), and A Self-Made Failure (1924). Her final credited screen appearance occurred in 1926, as Thora Barton in the cast of The Set-Up.

On November 25, 1920, Allen married actor, screenwriter, and director Hampton Del Ruth (the couple later divorced). She died of natural causes at her Boonsboro home on June 24, 1998, the age of 93.[citation needed ]

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Vorname:Alta
Geburtsdatum:06.09.1904 (♍ Jungfrau)
Geburtsort:Oakland
Sterbedatum:24.07.1998
Sterbeort:Boonsboro
Nationalität:Vereinigte Staaten
Muttersprache:Englisch
Sprachen:Englisch;
Geschlecht:♀weiblich
Berufe:Schauspieler,

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