Mary Thurman
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Mary Thurman (née Christiansen, April 27, 1895 – December 22, 1925) was an American actress of the silent film era.
Thurman's film career began with roles in the comedies of Mack Sennett, as one of the Sennett Bathing Beauties, and featured appearances in Bombs! (1916) and The Fool (1925). Her greatest success came when she was started working with director Allan Dwan. They collaborated on several critically acclaimed films including The Sin of Martha Queed (1921) and A Broken Doll (1921). In Dwan's still extant 1923 film Zaza, Thurman is the actress Gloria Swanson fights with. She appeared in nearly sixty Hollywood films from 1915 up until her death in 1925, frequently in those made by Pathé Studios.
In 1924, while working on the movie Down Upon The Suwanee River in Florida, Thurman came down with a serious case of pneumonia. She suffered from the illness and was hospitalized for nearly a year. She died, the result of pneumonia, in New York City in 1925.
Acting
Movie
Zaza
as Florianne
1923
Movie
Leap Year
as Nurse Phyllis Brown
1924
Movie
The Prince and Betty
as Betty Keith
1919
Movie
In the Heart of a Fool
as Laura Nesbit
1920
Movie
Double Trouble
as Flirt (uncredited)
1915
Movie
Bombs!
as Miss O'Doherty - the Mayor's Daughter
1916
Movie
Sand
as Margaret Young
1920
Movie
A Scoundrel's Toll
as Betty - the Railway President's Daughter
1916
Movie
A Bride for a Knight
as Jean Hawthorne
1923
Movie
The Necessary Evil
as Hattie
1925
Movie
Trouping with Ellen
as Lil
1924
Movie
The Bond Boy
as Ollie Chase
1923
Movie
A Little Girl in a Big City
as Mrs. Howard Young
1925
Movie
A Bedroom Blunder
as Mrs. Whale - a Wife Above Average
1917
Movie
The Green Temptation
as Dolly Dunton
1922
Movie
The Sin of Martha Queed
as Martha Queed
1921
Movie
The Scoffer
as Margaret Haddon
1920
Movie
Greater Than Marriage
as Venetia
1924
Movie
A Broken Doll
as Harriet Bundy
1921
Movie
The Primal Law
as Janice Webb
1921
Movie
Wife in Name Only
as Philippa L'Estrange
1923
Movie
For Another Woman
1924
Movie
Those Who Judge
as Katty Drexel
1924
Movie
The Lady from Longacre
as Princess Isabel / Molly Moncke
1921