Marcia Moore

Marcia Moore was an American film and theatre actress in the early 1900s. She had leading roles in multiple productions, including early silent films and vaudeville theatre. Despite the wishes of her father for her to study piano and become a music teacher, Moore's early interest in the stage led her to gather enough money to move to Chicago in order to study the arts at a conservatory there and then join the theatre. She moved between film and stage roles several times throughout her career, including later joining performances in burlesque shows.

Childhood and education Raised in Ishpeming, Michigan,

Moore was well received in local reviews, but her father still refused to discuss the subject and planned to have her attend Lawrence University to study to become a music teacher. An incident with her father's investments, however, just before the school year meant the family had no money to send her to college. A family friend offered to have her be a primary teacher for the school set up at the mining operation that he owned, which she did for a year. This allowed her to save enough money to travel to Chicago and attend the Lyceum Arts Conservatory while studying "voice and dramatic art". Several years later, she left movie performances and returned to the theatre, appearing in the lead role for A Little Mother To Be in 1918. as a part of the Al Reeves' Beauty Show in 1919 as a comedian singer. By 1922, she had returned to the film stage and had become the leading woman for the Charlton Film Company, noted for the large amount of gowns she required for her costumes.

Filmography Like Darby and Joan (1913) The War of the Cattle Range (1913) An Arrowhead Romance (1914) The Heart of a Cracksman (1914) The Woman Who Lied (1915) The Meddlers (1915) as Adelaide Main as Nannie McNair Lon of Lone Mountain (1915) as Melissa The Millionaire Paupers (1915) as Mabel The Second in Command (1915) as Nora Vining Kitty from the City (1916) as Kitty Lavinia Comes Home (1916) as Lavinia Borrowed Plumes (1916) as Polly The Grip of Jealousy (1916) as Linda Just Yet, But Not Quite (1916) Twice At Once (1916) The Speed King (1916) Her Soul's Inspiration (1917) as Zella A Box of Tricks (1917) Don't Flirt (1918) as Mrs Cornelius Van Soup

Theatre Mother Goose Girls (1913) as Miss Muffet A Little Mother To Be (1918) as the mother Slumming (1920) Private Property (1920) The Whirl of the Town (1921) East is West (1922)