Myrtle Gonzalez

Acting

Myrtle Gonzalez

Born September 28, 1891 · Los Angeles, California, USA

Died October 22, 1918 · aged 27

Myrtle Gonzalez (September 28, 1891 – October 22, 1918) was an American actress of Californio and Irish descent. She starred in at least 78 silent era motion pictures from 1913 to 1917, of which 66 were one and two-reel shorts. Gonzalez died, at age 27, during the worldwide Spanish flu pandemic of 1918. [biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]

Known For

The End of the RainbowThe End of the Rainbow · 1916
The End of the Rainbow
1916
MovieDrama
The daughter of a lumber man disguises herself and gets hired as the secretary of her father's rival.
The Girl of Lost LakeThe Girl of Lost Lake · 1916
The Girl of Lost Lake
1916
MovieDrama
It Happened in HonoluluIt Happened in Honolulu · 1916
It Happened in Honolulu
1916
MovieComedyRomance
Story of a pretty girl whose ambitious mother wants to marry her off to an English nobleman. The girl, however, loves a plain American, the son of a wholesale fish dealer. The girl's ineffectual father likes the young American too, but his wife overrides him and the family heads for Honolulu, where the matriarch hopes her daughter will wed the nobleman.
The Courage of the CommonplaceThe Courage of the Commonplace · 1913
The Courage of the Commonplace
★ 5.51913
MovieDrama
A farmer's daughter, who devotedly endlessly gives selflessly of herself to her parents and younger siblings, dreams of going to college, which she's saved money to be able to pay for.
A Romance of Billy Goat HillA Romance of Billy Goat Hill · 1916
A Romance of Billy Goat Hill
1916
MovieDrama
In a Southern town, Don Morley is apparently the sole witness to a gunfight during which his friend, Lee Dillingham, badly wounds Sheely. To avoid testifying against Lee, Don leaves town, but after he is gone, Lee double-crosses Don and blames him for the shooting. Then, Don's sweetheart, Miss Lady, heartbroken to learn that Don is a criminal, marries the elderly Professor Querrington. To take her mind off her mundane marriage, Miss Lady befriends a mute boy and pays for an operation that restores his speech. The professor dies, and soon after Don, unaware of his alleged guilt, returns to town to find himself charged with Lee's crime.
The Secret of the SwampThe Secret of the Swamp · 1916
The Secret of the Swamp
1916
MovieDrama
God's CrucibleGod's Crucible · 1917
God's Crucible
1917
MovieDrama
Having worked himself out of grinding poverty, grouchy millionaire Lorenzo Todd adopts a chip-on-the-shoulder attitude concerning the rest of Mankind. The only people Todd truly cares about is his son Warren and his boyhood chum Dudley Phillips. Eventually, however, the old sourpuss manages to alienate these two people as well. T
The KissThe Kiss · 1914
The Kiss
★ 4.51914
MovieDrama
Directed by Ulysses Davis, the screenplay was based on a story by Marc Edmund Jones. Long thought to have been a lost film, a copy was found and put on YouTube. The film is the only known surviving film in which director William Desmond Taylor appears as an actor. In 1964 Taylor's co-star Margaret Gibson, shortly before her death, reportedly confessed to having murdered him in 1921.

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