Minnie Dupree

Minnie Dupree
Born(1875-01-19)January 19, 1875[1][2][3][4][5]
San Francisco, California, U.S.[6][3][7][8][9]
DiedMay 23, 1947(1947-05-23) (aged 72) [5][10]
New York City, U.S.
OccupationActress
Years active1887—1947

Minnie Dupree (January 19, 1875 – May 23, 1947) was an American stage, film, and radio actress. During the Great Depression, she helped organize the Stage Relief Fund to assist unemployed actors and actresses.

  1. ^ LOC Name Authority File: Minnie Dupree, 1875-1947. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2015-07-05.
  2. ^ "1918 Passport Application, Minnie Dupree". Family Search. Retrieved 2015-07-05.
  3. ^ a b Mantle, Burns; Chapman, John Arthur; Sherwood, Garrison P.; Kronenberger, Louis; editors (1922). The Best Plays of 1921-22 and the Yearbook of the Drama in America. Boston: Small, Maynard & Company. p. 563. Retrieved 2015-07-05.
  4. ^ "Boy Actor With Tracy in Second Film; Veteran in Orpheum Film".The Montreal Gazette. November 12, 1938. Retrieved 2015-07-05. "Born in 1875, Minnie Dupree was on the stage before she was 12."
  5. ^ a b "Minnie Dupree, '90's Star Ingenue, Dies".Billboard. May 31, 1947. Retrieved 2015-07-05.
  6. ^ Hines, Dixie; Hanaford, Harry Prescott, editors (1914). Who's Who in the Theatre. New York: H. P. Hanaford. p. 104. Retrieved 2015-07-05.
  7. ^ "New York City Municipal Deaths". Family Search. Retrieved 2015-07-05.
  8. ^ Prior, Thomas M. "In the Camera's Eye".The New York Times. August 21, 1938. Retrieved via Proquest 2015-07-04. "Hollywood and the generally reliable "Who's Who in the Theatre" say she was born in San Francisco in 1875. Miss Dupree, who really ought to know, stoutly claims the date of her birth to be 1882 and directs all Missourians to the registrar of La Crosse, Wis., where she says the even took place."
  9. ^ Boudreau, Richard (2013). "National Attention: Local Connection — La Crosse’s contributions to the Arts and Entertainment in America". La Crosse History Unbound. Retrieved 2015-07-05."Minnie Dupree, actress, always gave her birthplace as La Crosse, yet there seems no evidence in the records about her birth. When she was in La Crosse in 1908, acting in a traveling Broadway production, she was written up specially in the Tribune, yet no mention was made of a La Crosse tie."
  10. ^ Parker, John, editor (1916; digitized 2010). Who's Who in the Theatre. London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons. p. 1559. Retrieved 2010-07-05.