Amy Ricard | |
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![]() Richard in 1908 | |
Born |
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. | January 1, 1882
Died | August 17, 1937
New York City, U.S. | (aged 55)
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1900–1910 |
Spouse |
Lester Lonergan
(
m. 1909; died 1931) |
Amy Ricard (January 1, 1882 — August 17, 1937) was an American actress and suffragist.
Amy Ricard was born in Boston, Massachusetts and raised in Denver, Colorado. [1] Her mother was Emma A. Ricard. [2] She studied acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. [3] She also trained as a soprano singer, with Horton Kennedy. [4]
Ricard appeared in Broadway in The Pride of Jennico (1900), Janice Meredith (1900-1901), The Stubbornness of Geraldine by Clyde Fitch (1902), [5] Babes in Toyland by Victor Herbert (1903-1904), [6] [7] The College Widow (1904-1905), [8] Mary and John (1905), Matilda (1906-1907), The Literary Sense (1908), The Reckoning (1908), [9] Girls by Clyde Fitch (1908 and 1909), The Torches (1917), [10] The Woman on the Index (1918), and Those Who Walk in Darkness (1919). [11] On the Boston stage, with her husband Lester Lonergan, she starred in An Idyl of Erin (1910). [12]
Dorothy Parker wrote of The Woman on the Index in Vanity Fair, saying "The thing was so well done. You know yourself that with a cast including Julia Dean, Amy Ricard, and Lester Lonergan, you can't really have such a terrible evening." [13]
Amy Ricard made her political views in favor of women's suffrage public, wearing a "Votes for Women" pin and speaking at suffrage events in New York City. [14]
Amy Ricard's engagement to poet and editor Charles Hanson Towne was announced in 1908, [15] [16] but she married Irish actor and playwright Lester Lonergan, as his third wife, in 1909. The couple owned a summer cottage on Indian Island in Maine, which was among the buildings removed by the Portland Water District in 1922 to return the island to an undeveloped state. [17] Ricard was widowed in 1931, [18] and she died in 1937, aged 55, in New York City. [19] [20]
Amy Ricard | |
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![]() Richard in 1908 | |
Born |
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. | January 1, 1882
Died | August 17, 1937
New York City, U.S. | (aged 55)
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1900–1910 |
Spouse |
Lester Lonergan
(
m. 1909; died 1931) |
Amy Ricard (January 1, 1882 — August 17, 1937) was an American actress and suffragist.
Amy Ricard was born in Boston, Massachusetts and raised in Denver, Colorado. [1] Her mother was Emma A. Ricard. [2] She studied acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. [3] She also trained as a soprano singer, with Horton Kennedy. [4]
Ricard appeared in Broadway in The Pride of Jennico (1900), Janice Meredith (1900-1901), The Stubbornness of Geraldine by Clyde Fitch (1902), [5] Babes in Toyland by Victor Herbert (1903-1904), [6] [7] The College Widow (1904-1905), [8] Mary and John (1905), Matilda (1906-1907), The Literary Sense (1908), The Reckoning (1908), [9] Girls by Clyde Fitch (1908 and 1909), The Torches (1917), [10] The Woman on the Index (1918), and Those Who Walk in Darkness (1919). [11] On the Boston stage, with her husband Lester Lonergan, she starred in An Idyl of Erin (1910). [12]
Dorothy Parker wrote of The Woman on the Index in Vanity Fair, saying "The thing was so well done. You know yourself that with a cast including Julia Dean, Amy Ricard, and Lester Lonergan, you can't really have such a terrible evening." [13]
Amy Ricard made her political views in favor of women's suffrage public, wearing a "Votes for Women" pin and speaking at suffrage events in New York City. [14]
Amy Ricard's engagement to poet and editor Charles Hanson Towne was announced in 1908, [15] [16] but she married Irish actor and playwright Lester Lonergan, as his third wife, in 1909. The couple owned a summer cottage on Indian Island in Maine, which was among the buildings removed by the Portland Water District in 1922 to return the island to an undeveloped state. [17] Ricard was widowed in 1931, [18] and she died in 1937, aged 55, in New York City. [19] [20]