Frances Ne Moyer

Frances E. Ne Moyer McCruden (September 28, 1896 – December 1981) was an actress who appeared in almost a hundred silent comedy films between 1913 and 1919. Her surname is sometimes found as NeMoyer, Ne-Moyer, or Nemoyer.

Early life and education Ne Moyer was born in Westfield, New York, the daughter of Henry W. NeMoyer and Mary Jane Harrington NeMoyer. She attended Miss Nardin's Academy in Buffalo, New York. Her family was in show business and she performed with the Anson Gilmore Stock Company. She also played piano.

Career Beginning in her teens, Ne Moyer appeared in films for Lubin Studio and the Kalem Company. She fell about 30 feet from a cliff for a scene in The Smuggler's Daughter (1914), barely escaping injury. She worked with noted vamp Theda Bara in Gold and the Woman (1916); later, Ne Moyer played a vamp character in The Law of Nature (1919), her last film.

Her sister Marguerite Ne Moyer was also a film actress; they were both members of the Lubin company and appeared in several comedies together, including The Rest Cure (1913), She Must Be Ugly (1913), and His Sudden Recovery (1914). She was active in Waccabuc Country Club activities in the 1940s. Her husband died in 1961, and she died in 1981, in her eighties, in North Salem, New York.

Filmography The Female Detective (1913) Pins Are Lucky (1914) as Ruth Singleton Dobs at the Shore (1914) as Helen Cannibal King (1915) as Grace The Prize Baby (1915) as Florence Shoddy the Tailor (1915) as Minnie Her Choice (1915) The Wayville Slumber Party (1915) Mr. Stub's Pen (1915) Gold and the Woman (1916) as Murray's daughter The Law of Nature (1919) as Gene Moore Lover's Signal Won at High Tide as Sally