Max Figman and Lolita Robertson

Max Figman (March 9, 1866 – February 13, 1952), born in Vienna, Austria, and Lolita Robertson (March 7, 1888 – May 1, 1959) born in San Francisco, were a husband and wife acting duo who appeared on Broadway and in silent films together. Max was also a director and writer in his stage career. Max was 22 years Lolita's senior but the couple was long married and devoted to each other until Max's death in 1952. Max died on February 13, 1952, in a nursing home in Bayside, Queens, called Edgewater Rest, at the age of 85.[1] They had two children, Max Jr. and Lolita Figman.[2]

Max and Lolita appeared in a hit play Fine Feathers in 1913 co-starring Wilton Lackaye and Robert Edeson.[3] They made a few films with the short-lived Masterpiece Film Manufacturing Company.[4]

The couple sat in on the formation of The Lasky Company in 1914, later to be Paramount Pictures.[5] In silent pictures, the husband and wife often appeared together.

  1. ^ "MAX FIGMAN, ACTOR, HAD MANY TOP ROLES". The New York Times. February 14, 1952. p. 27. ProQuest 112386130. Retrieved March 16, 2022 – via ProQuest.
  2. ^ Lolita Robertson biography, IMDb
    - Max Figman biography, IMDb
    - Margaret Hubbard Ayer (February 26, 1913). "Lolita Robertson Finds time to Be a Star and an Old-Fashioned Mother". The Spokesman-Review – via Google.
  3. ^ Daniel Blum, Pictorial History of the American Theatre: 1860-1970 p.140 c.1970; originally 1958 1970 edition enlarged by John Willis
  4. ^ Slide, Anthony (February 25, 2014). The New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry. Routledge. ISBN 9781135925543.
  5. ^ Daniel Blum, Pictorial History of the Silent Screen p.54 c.1952