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Lawrence Marston (June 8, 1857 – February 1, 1939) was an American actor, playwright, producer, stage director and film director.

Biography

Marston was born to a Jewish family in Hammerstadt, Bohemia, Austrian Empire (now Vlastějovice in the Czech Republic). Naturalized in Chicago, he lived mainly in New York City. After working as an actor, producer and director for the stage, he became a film director with the Biograph Studios.

His first wife was actress Lillian Lewis, who he married in 1888.

Marston's second wife Anna Cornelia Delves was billed as Mrs. Lawrence Marston. With her, he had his only daughter, Anna Lawrence Marston, who was baptized Catholic at age 12.

Lawrence Marston died February 1, 1939, in Manhattan. His ashes were interred into the mausoleum of Ferncliff Cemetery.

Works

Playwright

• An Innocent Sinner (1896)
• The Widow Goldstein (1897)
• For Liberty and Love (1897)
• The Helmet of Navarre (1901)
• The Penitent (1902) from Hall Caine's novel A Son of Hagar
• The Little Mother (1902)
• A Remarkable Case (1902)
• After Midnight (1904)
• When the World Sleeps (1905)
• Jeanne D'arc (1906)

Screenwriter

• The Warfare of the Flesh (1917) scenario
• The Border Legion (1918)
• A Man of Iron (1925) adaptation

Stage director

• The Monster (1922) play by Crane Wilbur
• Death Takes a Holiday (1929) with Katharine Hepburn (both actress and director were fired during the run)

Film director

• The Star of Bethlehem
• The Evidence of the Film (1913) short
• The Woman in Black (1914)
• Under the Gaslight (1914) with Lionel Barrymore and Mrs. Lawrence Marston
• The Marriage Bond (1916)
• A Wall Street Tragedy (1916)

References

1. Marston (1923). "United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925". FamilySearch.
2. Robert E. Weir (1996) Beyond Labor's Veil: The Culture of the Knights of Labor, Penn State Press
3. Robert Grau (1914) The Theatre of Science
4. "Lewis, Lillian". Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events. D. Appleton & Company. 1900. p. 617.
5. Marston (1934). "New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949". FamilySearch.
6. Marston (1913). "New Jersey Births and Christenings, 1660-1980". FamilySearch.
7. Marston (1939). "New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949". FamilySearch.
8. William J. Mann (2007) Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn , Macmillan and Co. ISBN 978-0-312-42740-5

External links

• Lawrence Marston at IMDb
• Lawrence Marston at the Internet Broadway Database

• 1857 births
• 1939 deaths
• 19th-century American dramatists and playwrights
• 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights
• 19th-century American male actors
• American male stage actors
• American male screenwriters
• American theatre directors
• American male dramatists and playwrights
• Film directors from Illinois
• Male actors from Chicago
• 20th-century American male writers
• Screenwriters from Illinois
• 20th-century American screenwriters
• American people of Czech descent
• American people of Czech-Jewish descent
• Czech film directors
• Burials at Ferncliff Cemetery
• 19th-century Czech Jews