Edith Reeves

Edith Reeves
Reeves, from a 1916 publication
Other namesPeggy Tenbrook, Edith Lampe
OccupationActress

Edith Reeves was an American silent film actress who also appeared on Broadway in the 1900s and 1910s. She sometimes used the stage name Peggy Tenbrook.[1]

Career

Reeves was from Auburn, New York.[1] She was well known to American theater audiences, including appearances on Broadway and in vaudeville programs.[2][3] She was in the New York cast of Take My Advice in 1911 and 1912, co-written by and starring William Collier.[4][5] Reeves and her husband William Lampe toured in Ivy Ashton Root's "tabloid drama", One Flight Up, in 1913[6] and 1914.[7][8] She also had roles in George Ade's Just Out of College and The Man of the Hour.[3]

The Lost Secret (1915) featured Reeves in her second screen appearance, alongside Paul Gilmore.[9] She teamed with Frank Mills and Howard Hickman in The Moral Fabric (1916), directed by Thomas H. Ince. Reeves plays a wife who is bored with her traditional husband and becomes attracted to a cult of free love.[3][10] Her last film role was Ruth in The Song of the Soul (1918), directed by Tom Terriss and co-starring Alice Joyce. Percy Standing, and Walter McGrall.[11]

In 1920, Reeves and her husband presented One Flight Up in vaudeville programs again.[12][13]

Filmography

Personal life

Reeves married fellow actor William Lampe in 1907.[1] They had a son, William, born in Philadelphia in 1908.[18]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Man of Hour Weds Quickly; Takes Him Just Fifty-Nine Minutes for Details and Ceremony". Rockford Register Star. December 27, 1907. p. 5. Retrieved May 1, 2026 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ↑ Edith Reeves Makes Her Triangle Debut, Marysville Evening Tribune, January 16, 1917, pg. 4; via Newspapers.com
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Edith Reeves" Moving Picture World (April 15, 1916): 448.
  4. ↑ "Plays and Players", The New York Times, November 26, 1911, pg. X1.
  5. ↑ Hines, Dixie; Hanaford, Harry Prescott (1914). Who's who in Music and Drama. H.P. Hanaford. p. 423.
  6. ↑ "Nelson Theater; William Fox's Vaudeville". The Republican. April 10, 1913. p. 10. Retrieved May 1, 2026 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ↑ "Tabloid Drama Headliner on Majestic Bill". Fort Worth Star-Telegram. November 15, 1914. p. 29. Retrieved May 1, 2026 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ↑ "'One Flight Up' is Majestic Headliner". San Antonio Light. December 6, 1914. p. 25. Retrieved May 1, 2026 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ↑ "Heuck's Opera House". The Cincinnati Post. October 28, 1915. p. 4. Retrieved May 1, 2026 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ↑ "'The Moral Fabric'; The Hippodrome Shows New Triangle Feature First Part of Week". Fort Worth Record-Telegram. April 17, 1916. p. 6. Retrieved May 1, 2026 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ↑ "Alice Joyce Film". The Dramatic Mirror. 77 (2036): 13. December 29, 1917.
  12. ↑ "Fine Bill at Academy". Ledger-Star. February 12, 1920. p. 5. Retrieved May 1, 2026 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ↑ "Three Days of Fun and Song at Princess". The Tennessean. March 18, 1920. p. 10. Retrieved May 1, 2026 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ↑ "Balboa Company Making Big Extensions". The Movie Magazine. 1 (5): 33. July 1915.
  15. ↑ "Stories of the Films: The Hoyden". The Moving Picture World: 497. April 15, 1916.
  16. ↑ "The Painted Madonna (1917)". AFI Catalog. Retrieved May 1, 2026.
  17. ↑ "Right Off the Reel: 'The Song of the Soul'". Pictures and Picturegoer. 15 (249): 492. November 16–23, 1918.
  18. ↑ "Obituary for William C. Lampe". The Ann Arbor News. August 14, 1978. p. 29. Retrieved May 1, 2026 – via Newspapers.com.
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