Evelyn NesbitFilmography

Born:
December 25, 1884 in Tarentum, PA
Occupation:
Actor
Biography:
A former artist's model turned "Floradora Girl," Evelyn Nesbit (née Florence Nesbit) married Philadelphia society scion Harry K. Thaw in 1906. After dining at the famous Madison Square Garden roof a few months later, Thaw shot and killed Evelyn's reputed lover, famed architect Stanford White....Read More

  • Hidden Woman

    Synopsis: Her fortune lost, a society woman flees to a settlement in the Adirondacks in this obscure silent melodrama produced and directed by Allan Dwan. When Ann Westley (Evelyn Nesbit takes pity on little Johnny Randolph (Russell Thaw), her unconventionality provokes the local community in general and Read More

    1922

  • Thou Shalt Not

    Synopsis: Evelyn Nesbit's big claim to fame was that in 1906, her crazed husband, Harry K. Thaw, murdered her former lover, Stanford White. Nesbit forged a film career out of her notoriety during the 1910s, and Fox, which released many of her pictures, cast her in exploitation films. This one, typical of Read More

    1919

  • My Little Sister

    Synopsis: According to trade paper Motion Picture News, "Evelyn Nesbit seems to have found a fitting subject for her subdued emotions" with this drama; in translation, it means that Nesbit wasn't much of an actress. Luckily, as Motion Picture News so eloquently points out, she doesn't have to do a whole lot Read More

    1919

  • A Fallen Idol

    Synopsis: Could anyone imagine Evelyn Nesbit -- former Floradora girl and ex-wife of wealthy, insane murderer Harry K. Thaw -- as a Hawaiian princess? Probably not, but Fox cast her as one anyway in this exploitative drama. Princess Laone (Nesbit) has been introduced to Santa Barbara society by Mrs. Parrish Read More

    1919

  • Woman Who Gave

    Synopsis: This is yet another sensationalistic Fox melodrama which banks on the name of once-notorious former showgirl Evelyn Nesbit. Colette (Nesbit) is a model and she poses for two artist brothers, Don (Robert Walker) and Andrien Walcott (Irving Cummings). Andrien, a hunchback, creates a beautiful Read More

    1918

  • I Want to Forget

    Synopsis: Fox signed Evelyn Nesbit purely for sensational value. Even at this late date, she was still notorious as the cause for what was considered in 1906 to be "the crime of the century" -- the murder of her ex-lover, architect Stanford White, by her husband Harry Thaw. So most of the films she made for Read More

    1918

  • Redemption

    Synopsis: Mrs. Loring (Evelyn Nesbit) has a happy marriage, a charmingly precocious son (Russell Thaw), and a past. Her husband already knows about the affair she had with John Brooks and has accepted it. But Brooks -- who was Mrs. Loring's partner when she was a vaudeville performer -- returns and hounds Read More

    1917

  • Her Greatest Love

    Synopsis: In an unsuccessful attempt to break out of her vampire mold, Theda Bara plays a sweet young thing in this picture adapted from the 1880 novel Moths by Ouida. Bara's character, Vere Herbert, lives with her wicked mother, Lady Dolly (Marie Curtis), who is living in sin with Lord Jura (Glen White). Read More

    1917

  • Threads of Destiny

    Actors: Evelyn Nesbit

    Synopsis: After gaining nationwide notoriety as the catalyst in a sensational murder trial, model/actress Evelyn Nesbit Shaw was besieged with vaudeville and motion picture offers. Contrary to claims made in the 1981 film Ragtime, Shaw did not make her film debut in a slapstick "beach" comedy, but instead Read More

    1914

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