Marie Pavey

Photograph of a scene from the 1912 Broadway production of Little Women. Subjects at top of stairs: Marie Pavey (Jo), Donald McLaren (Laurie) Subjects seated: John Cromwell (John Brooke), Alice Brady (Meg)

Marie Pavey, also known as E. Marie Pavey,[1] was an American stage actress and vaudeville performer who had an active career in the United States during the first three decades of the twentieth century. Trained as an actress in Chicago, she began her career in that city in 1900. In her early career she toured widely in vaudeville as a stage partner to Bert Coote.

Pavey's first major success as an actress was as Mabel Gray in A. H. Woods The Gambler of the West; a role she performed on tour in the United States and in Canada from 1906 through 1908. She is best known for creating the role of Jo March in the original production of Marian de Forest's Little Women; a play adapted from the novel by Louisa May Alcott. Pavey performed the role on Broadway in 1912 and toured nationally in the production for several years.[2]

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