Born Today September 20: Claire Mersereau
1894-1982
Younger sister of actress Violet Mersereau Claire Mersereau, whose own acting career was entirely within the silent era and relatively short, was born on this day in New York City. She made her film debut along side her sister in 1911 in Nestor Film's Those Jersey Cowpunchers. She next appeared, sans her sister, in the IMP production 'Lizbeth (1913), directly produced by Carl Laemmle. She only appeared in 7 more films, with her last role coming in 1920 in the melodrama Black Is White. Though her older sister made many more films that Claire, they both were out of the film business by 1930. At some point in her life, Claire relocated to California. She died in San Diego on the 26th of June at the age of 87 after a bout with pneumonia. She is interred at the famous Westchester county, New York cemetery Ferncliff in Hartsdale.
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