About Eleanor Lazarovich-Hrebelianovich
Lived 1862 – 1957 (aged 94–95). Eleanor Lazarovich-Hrebelianovich was an American writer and stage actor.
Princess Eleanor Lazarovich-Hrebelianovich ( – ) was an American actress who gained international fame under her maiden name Eleanor Calhoun and the wife of Prince Lazarovich-Hrebelianovich, a claimant to the throne of the Kingdom of Serbia.
Eleanor Hulda Calhoun was born in Visalia, California. Nicknamed "Nellie", she was the daughter of Judge E. E. Calhoun, a Tulare County, California pioneer and relative of John C. Calhoun, and Laura A. Davis Calhoun, a writer on biological and agricultural topics.
Her stage debut was as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet at the Grand Opera House in San Francisco in 1880. She became a protégé of Phoebe Hearst, but when Calhoun announced her engagement to Hearst's son William Randolph Hearst, she became enraged, labeling Calhoun a "Devil fish". Hearst informed Calhoun that her son would be disinherited if they married, and may have offered her a cash bribe. Calhoun moved to London.
Calhoun made her London debut in 1882 as Rosalind in As You Like It. In 1884, she and her friend Janey Sevilla Callander, Lady Campbell organized a lavish outdoor performance of As You Like It at the Campbell home of Coombe Hill Farm near Kingston upon Thames. Aside from Calhoun as Rosalind, the cast consisted of amateur actors. From 1883 to 1885 she appeared at the Haymarket Theatre, starring in roles such as Dora in Diplomacy and Lydia Languish in The Rivals. In 1888, she produced a stage adaptation of The Scarlet Letter at the Royalty Theatre, starring as Hester Prynne with Johnston Forbes-Robertson as Dimmesdale.
Calhoun moved to Paris to study and appear on stage with the famous French actor Benoît-Constant Coquelin. They starred in a French translation of The Taming of the Shrew at the Théâtre d'Orléans, with Calhoun playing Katherine. The height of her time in France was her role as Hermione in Andromache.
She largely retired from the stage after her marriage, but returned to star in several prominent performances. She returned to California in 1912 to appear as Doña Josefa de la Cortina de Argüello in the historical pageant The Mission Play. She ended her stage career performing Lady Macbeth in Stratford-on-Avon.
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Who was Eleanor Lazarovich-Hrebelianovich?
American writer and actress
When was Eleanor Lazarovich-Hrebelianovich born?
Eleanor Lazarovich-Hrebelianovich was born in 1862 in San Jose, Visalia.
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Eleanor Lazarovich-Hrebelianovich died on 9 January 1957 in New York City.
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Eleanor Lazarovich-Hrebelianovich was a writer and stage actor.
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Eleanor Lazarovich-Hrebelianovich was American.
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