Barbara Castleton

Barbara Castleton
Born	September 14, 1894 Little Rock, Arkansas
Died	December 23, 1978 (aged 84) Boca Raton, Florida
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1914-1923

Barbara Castleton (September 14, 1894 – December 23, 1978) was an American silent film actress. Castleton appeared in motion pictures from 1914 through 1923, accumulating twenty-eight screen credits.

Career

Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, Castleton was one of the lower echelon stars who made films for Samuel Goldwyn Studio, along with Cullen Landis, James Kirkwood, and Rowland Lee. The company's major stars were Madge Kennedy, Geraldine Farrar, Will Rogers, and Tom Moore. Her first performance as a film actress came in The Ordeal (1914). She had the lead in Branding Iron (1920), a film directed by Reginald Barker.

Personal life and death

Her first husband was George W. Zimmerman, an attorney from Vancouver, British Columbia. Castleton won a divorce suit from Zimmerman in October 1921 in Reno, Nevada. She contended that he gambled and lived beyond his income. The decree was granted on ground of cruelty. Castleton wed playwright Willard Mack in June 1920.

Castleton was a collector of furniture. In March 1923 she purchased a pair of early seventeenth century blue velvet armchairs with Van Dyke fringe and an octagonal walnut center table with an elaborate carved base, also from the seventeenth century. The pieces were purchased at the Dabissi sale of fine old furniture held at the American Art Galleries in New York City.

Castleton died in Boca Raton, Florida in 1978.

Filmography

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Still from The Child Thou Gavest Me (1921) with Barbara Castleton (left) and Richard Headrick as the child Bobby.

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1914	The Ordeal		Alternative title: The Mothers of Liberty
1916	A Daughter of the Gods
1917	For the Freedom of the World	Betty Milburn
	Her Good Name	Agnes Gurnee
	God's Man	Bertie
	On Trial	Mrs. Robert Strickland
	Parentage	Agnes Melton
	Sins of Ambition	Ruth Maxwell
1918	Empty Pockets	Muriel Schuyler
	Vengeance	Lady Elsie Drillingcourt
	The Heart of a Girl	Betty Lansing
	Heredity	Nedda Trevor, as an adult	Alternative title: The Blood of the Trevors
	Just Sylvia	Sylvia
1919	Peg o' My Heart	Ethel Chicester	*first filmed version of famous play produced by Famous Players-Lasky. It was never released due to copyright conflict with J. Hartley Manners and his wife Laurette Taylor. Taylor starred in a permitted version in 1922 for Metro Pictures directed by King Vidor
	What Love Forgives
	The Silver King
	The Rough Neck	Frances	Alternative title: The Roughneck
	The Man Who Turned White
	Dangerous Hours	May Weston
1920	Dangerous Days	Audrey Valentine
	Out of the Storm	Margaret Hill
	The Branding Iron	Joan Carver
1921	The Child Thou Gavest Me	Norma Huntley
1922	False Fronts	Helen Baxter
	What's Wrong with the Women?	Janet Lee
	The Streets of New York	Lucy Bloodgood
	My Friend the Devil	Anna Ryder
1923	The Net	Allayne Norman

References

• The Los Angeles Times, "Willard Mack To Wed", June 18, 1920, Page III4.
• The Los Angeles Times, "Barbara Castleton Wins Divorce Suit", October 9, 1921, II10.
• The Los Angeles Times, "Film Publicist's Memories", July 22, 1958, Page B4.
• The New York Times, "Dabissi Art Brings $58,695", March 25, 1923, Page 17.

External links

• Barbara Castleton at the Internet Movie Database
• Barbara Castleton photo at NYP Library