Bridgetta Clark

Bridgetta Clark (born Ruth Porter Clark, January 13, 1891

Career A native of Illinois, Clark was the youngest of nine children born to Bridget "Gretta" Glennon and Lincoln Ellis Clark, eventually studying with Theodora Ursula Irving, a New York-based teacher and fellow faculty member at Dickson's Hollywood Community Theater. Borrowing her mother's first name—both the formal and informal version—to arrive at the stage name Bridgetta, Clark made her film debut in 1921. Arguably her best known role, as the mother of Rudolph Valentino's character in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, it was followed that same year by another pairing with Valentino and his Horsemen leading lady Alice Terry in The Conquering Power. Clark appeared in one more film in 1921, and one in 1922, before joining the faculty of Dickson's school. In the spring term, however, she was granted a leave of absence when she had the opportunity to make what would prove to be uncredited appearances in Rex Ingram's Scaramouche and Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments.

Personal life and death On October 3, 1926, Clark commemorated the 57th anniversary of her parents' wedding by becoming the wife of Russian-American electrical engineer Paul Earl Lobanoff. Following her retirement from acting, Clark continued—as Mrs. Paul Lobanoff—to speak in public on occasion, both in California and following their move to Phoenix, Arizona in 1957.

On October 10, 1980, Clark died at the Village Green Nursing Home in Phoenix, Arizona. 1926 The Greater Glory Mitzi von Berg Lost film