Biography
Cissy Fitzgerald (born Mary Kate Kipping; 1 February 1873 β 10 May 1941) was an English-American vaudeville actress, dancer, and singer who appeared in numerous silent and sound films. Fitzgerald acted in a popular Gaiety Girl show beginning in 1894 and was filmed in the role in 1896 in a self-titled short film shot by Thomas Edison's film company. She did not appear in films again until 1914 where she signed with the Vitagraph company and was quite popular in feature films and her own series of Cissy short films. Very little of Fitzgerald's silent material survives except her comic backup role in the 1928 Lon Chaney vehicle Laugh, Clown, Laugh.
Fitzgerald claimed to have been the first woman in motion pictures, on 50 feet of film at the Edison labs in New Jersey in 1896. However, Annabelle Whitford had been filmed in 1894 by Edison engineer W. K. L. Dickson and the Lumiere's in France were shooting motion pictures, including men and women coming and going from a factory, by 1896.
Fitzgerald married Oliver Mark Tucker and had two children, a son and a daughter.
Filmography
all 23
Movies 23
Flirtation (1934)
Maids a la Mode (1933)
Du Barry, Woman of Passion (1930)
The Painted Angel (1929)
His Lucky Day (1929)
Seven Footprints to Satan (1929)
Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928)
Two Flaming Youths (1927)
The Beauty Shoppers 1927 (1927)
The Arizona Wildcat (1927)
Women Love Diamonds (1927)
Redheads Preferred (1926)
Flames (1926)
The Love Thief (1926)
The Crown of Lies (1926)
Long Pants (1926)
I'll Show You the Town (1925)
Cornered (1924)
Babbitt (1924)
Flowing Gold (1924)
Lilies of the Field (1924)
Look Out Below (1916)
A Madcap Adventure (1915)
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Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1873-01-01
Deathday1941-05-10 (68 years old)
Birth PlaceEngland, United Kingdom
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom
Also Known AsCissy Fitz-Gerald, Marie Kathleen Kipping, Cissie Fitzgerald, Mary Kate Kipping, The Girl with the Wink
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