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Euphemia "Effie" Ellsler (September 17, 1855 – October 8, 1942) was an American actress of stage and screen whose career had its beginnings when she was a child and lasted well into the 1930s. She was best remembered over her early career for playing the title role in Steele MacKaye 's hit play Hazel Kirke , and as the self-sacrificing Bessie ...
ELLSLER, EFFIE (4 Apr. 1854-8 Oct. 1942), a member of the famous Ellsler theatrical family and known as "Cleveland's Sweetheart" from the 1870s to 1900s, learned to perfect the art of emotional distress and extravagant gesture so popular during the pre-Ibsen period of stage and screen.
Euphemia "Effie" Ellsler was an American actress of stage and screen whose career had its beginnings when she was a child and lasted well into the 1930s. She was best remembered over her early career for playing the title role in Steele MacKaye's hit play Hazel Kirke, and as the self-sacrificing Bessie Barton in Frank Harver's Woman Against Woman.
ELLSLER. Miss Effie, actor, born in Philadelphia, Pa. She is a daughter of John A. Ellsler, the well-known actor and manager. Her mother also was an actor of merit. Erne's strongly marked talents are therefore an inheritance. She was early upon the stage.
American actress and daughter of Cleveland stage manager John Ellsler, Ellsler was onstage almost from birth and became a member of her father's stock company at 15. During the 1880's was a travelling star of melodrama, and in 1910 she began a long film career.
By 1880, Effie Ellsler was appearing on New York stages, performing a title role that was written for her and in her own company.
Effie Ellsler, Clara Morris, James O'Neil, James Lewis, Mrs. G. H. Gilbert, Lawrence Barrett, and Edwin Booth also began their march to stardom after appearances on the Academy of Music and Opera House stages.
