Reeva Greenwood

Reeva Greenwood (November 1893 – May 1, 1972) was an American actress on stage and in silent films in the 1910s and 1920s.

Early life and education Greenwood was born in Connecticut, the daughter of Mai Louise Richardson. Her stepfather was Roland Merrick Greenwood. Early in her life Reeva Greenwood wanted to be a newspaper writer. She stated in a San Francisco Examiner newspaper article written on May 27, 1914, "I have always always had the ambition to become a newspaper writer." She appeared in several silent films as well as plays while being an employee of the Savoy Stock Company. She toured nationally in Excuse Me (1912–1913), The Road to Happiness (1913–1914) and The Naughty Wife (1918–1920). She acted on Broadway in The Jeweled Tree (1926), which she also produced.

During her career Reeva Greenwood had a scary and dangerous incident. While traveling on a train through Tennessee to perform a show titled Excuse Me (1912–1913), a bullet crashed through the trains window and passed right above her head. She did not suffer any injuries during this scary incident but she was shaken up due to the loud and unexpected gun shot. The stray bullet was believed to be a nearby hunter who missed his target near the train tracks. A local police officer was sent to investigate this incident on the train. The rest of the comedian actors who were also a part of the show jokingly threatened a lawsuit, which resulted in Reeva Greenwood getting candy out of the officer and the rest of the actors to get cigars. Reeva Greenwood ended up performing as Marjorie later in Arkansas while also enjoying the rest of Little Rock. funny, and a good horsewoman, the last trait especially useful in Western films. Later in life, she ran a dress shop in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Filmography (1911, short) Bertie's Reformation (1911, short) Money in the Bank (1911, short) The New Cook (1911, short) (1911, short) Love and Hatred (1911, short) The Price He Paid (1914) For the Honor of Bar X (1915) Pals First (1917, Play)

Personal life Greenwood married twice. Her first husband was actor Rollin T. Holden Jr.; they divorced. She married her second husband, novelist and Egyptologist Garrett Chatfield Pier, in 1928. Garrett Pier died in 1943, and she died in Pinellas, Florida on May 1, 1972, at the age of 78.