1896-1968
Silent film actress Edith Stockton was born Edith Lillian Stockham on this day in Rock Island, Illinois. Not a great deal is known of her life, except that she had a sister, Gladys, two years her junior, who was also an actress. Edith's first film appearance was in the Fox Film drama Putting One Over in 1919, where she was given the female lead opposite George Walsh. She only has ten credits (as of this writing) in films spanning the years 1919 through 1922. Other than her debut in one Fox production, she only appeared in two other productions by major film studios: Matrimonial Web (1921) a Vitagraph film, and Ashamed of Parents (1921) a Warner's production. The later production was directed by Horace G. Plympton, and was one of only four films that he directed. His third and fourth/final directions starred Stockton. Both were b-grade melodramas released in 1922. Should A Wife Work? had obvious social elements; and Through the Storm was a blackmail drama--it also marked the end of her film career. Stockton was married twice and had at least one child, a son. She died in Coral Gables, Florida on the 21st of April at the age of 72. The details of her burial are not known at this time.
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