Charlotte Walker

Charlotte Ganahl Walker (December 29, 1876 – March 23, 1958) was a Broadway theater actress.

Stage actress Walker made her stage debut as a teen in 1893. At nineteen 1895 she performed in London, England in a comedy called The Mummy and in the same year performed with Richard Mansfield. Later, she returned to her native Texas after marrying and had two children. In 1900, she made her Broadway debut in Miss Prinnt. She returned to the stage in 1901 and appeared with James A. Herne. She was a leading lady with James K. Hackett from 1901 to 1905. In 1907 she appeared in the Broadway hit The Warrens of Virginia whose cast also had Gladys Smith (later Mary Pickford) and Cecil B. DeMille. She appeared as June in Trail of the Lonesome Pine, in 1911. She would later reprise the role in Cecil B. DeMille's 1916 film Trail of the Lonesome Pine. David Belasco noticed her in On Parole. He signed her for starring roles in plays The Warrens of Virginia, Just a Wife, and Call The Doctor. Each of the Belasco productions was staged prior to World War I.

She continued to act on the Broadway stage. In 1923 she played with Ethel Barrymore in The School For Scandal. It was produced by the Player's Club.

Films Walker's motion picture career began in 1915 with Kindling and Out of the Darkness. Sloth (1917) is a five-reeler which features Walker. In the third reel of this film she plays a youthful Dutch maid who is about sixteen years old. The setting is an old Dutch settlement on Staten Island, New York. The theme stresses the perils of indolence to a nation of people. It cautions against permitting luxury to replace the simple life led by America's forebears. In her later silent film work Walker can be seen in The Midnight Girl (1925) starring alongside a pre-Dracula Bela Lugosi. The Midnight Girl is one of Walker's few silents that survives.

As a film actress Walker continued to perform in films into the early 1930s. Her later screen performances include roles in Lightnin' (1930), Millie (1931), Salvation Nell (1931), and Hotel Variety (1933).

Personal life

Walker married her first husband, Dr. John B. Haden, on November 16, 1896, in New York City. With him she had two daughters, Beatrice Shelton Haden (born 1897) and Katherine Haden (b. 1899), who was known as the actress Sara Haden. After her divorce, she returned to the stage. Dr. Haden died in 1930. Her second husband, Eugene Walter, was a playwright who adapted the novel The Trail of the Lonesome Pine for the Broadway stage. The second marriage also ended in divorce in 1930.

Charlotte Walker died in 1958 at a hospital in Kerrville, Texas at age 81.

Filmography

Silent Year Title Role Notes 1915 Kindling Maggie Schultz Paramount Pictures Out of the Darkness Helen Scott Paramount Pictures 1916 The Trail of the Lonesome Pine June Tolliver Paramount Pictures 1917 Pardners Olive Mutual Film Lost film The Seventh Sin Margaret Brent / Sally Wells / Molly Pitcher Triangle Film Corporation Mary Lawson's Secret Mary Lawson Pathé Exchange Lost film 1918 Just a Woman Anna Ward US Exhibitor's Booking Corporation Lost film Men Mrs. Burton US Exhibitor's Booking Corporation Lost film Every Mother's Son An American Mother Fox Film Corporation Lost film 1919 Eve in Exile Eve Ricardo Pathé Exchange 1924 The Lone Wolf Clare Henshaw Associated Exhibitors Lost film The Sixth Commandment Mrs. Calhoun Associated Exhibitors Lost film Classmates Mrs. Stafford First National Lost film 1925 The Mad Marriage Rosemary Films Lost film The Midnight Girl Mrs. Schuyler Chadwick Pictures The Manicure Girl Mrs. Morgan Paramount Pictures Lost film 1926 The Savage Mrs. Atwater First National Lost film The Great Deception Mrs. Mansfield First National Lost film 1927 The Clown Columbia Pictures 1928 Annapolis Aunt Pathé Exchange Sound Year Title Role Notes 1929 Paris Bound Helen White Pathé ExchangeSouth Sea Rose The Mother Superior Fox Film Corporation Lost film 1930 Double Cross Roads Mrs. Tilton Fox Film CorporationThree Faces East Catherine, Lady Chamberlain First NationalScarlet Pages Mrs. Mason First NationalLightnin' Mrs. Thatcher Fox Film Corporation 1931 Millie Mrs Maitland RKOSalvation Nell Maggie Tiffany Pictures 1933 Hotel Variety Capitol Film Exchange Lost film 1937 Scattergood Meets Broadway RKO