Talk:Edna May Sperl

Photos
A possible photo, though I hope to find a better quality one. Silver seren C 00:50, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Another option. Silver  seren C 00:45, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

Did you know nomination
So how did the story with her fiance end? What was the rest of her life like? When did she die, and when was she born, for that matter? With these articles about silent-film actors (and about the silent films themselves), I often get the impression that at some point in the 1930s, America was hit by a nuclear apocalypse, sunk into the ocean like Atlantis or something like that, so hardly a record was preserved and we know about people from these decades about as much as about your average individual from ancient Mesopotamia, whose name is mentioned on a random clay tablet.


 * IP editor see my summary below of what can be found via ancestry.com. Hopefully some of the information can be reliably sourced and added to the article. TSventon (talk) 17:28, 12 May 2024 (UTC)


 * It's more a commentary on the fickleness of the news media at the time, which wasn't as obsessive about forever following celebrities even after their retirement like it does now. I've found, from having made a large number of such actress articles in the time period, that the moment the person stops appearing in theater or films, they instantly stop being covered whatsoever by the news. It's as if they drop off the face of the world. Furthermore, the news coverage of the time only rarely covers the birth and childhood and early history of such celebrities. I suppose readers don't want to think about their actors having ever been anything other than the current celebrity they envision.


 * To answer your questions. She did marry him, a month after that incident happened. The news apparently declined to cover that fact. Her birth and death can be found in the section below, but we don't have proper sources to cover it yet to be able to put it in the article. Anything other than that about her life after is a mystery. Silver  seren C 17:30, 12 May 2024 (UTC)


 * I have added find a grave to Wikidata as they seem to accept it (and IMDB). TSventon (talk) 19:49, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

ancestry.com
Silver seren I thought I would note the ancestry.com details for Edna May Sperl in case anyone can source them. The IMDB date of death, 1981, appears to be incorrect. TSventon (talk) 16:36, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Birth 30 May 1899, Brooklyn, New York
 * Marriage William C. Coltingham [presumably Cottingham] 11 Apr 1919, Manhattan, New York
 * Marriage Charles Joseph Burke
 * Death	12 Jul 1957 Miami-Dade, Florida
 * Find a grave has a clipping of an obituary for Edna Burke saying she acted in D. W. Griffiths' films.