Talk:Zita Moulton

Additional sources
She’s noted here “..while ZIta Moulton, a new addition to the company, and incidentally a..” FloridaArmy (talk) 04:44, 24 July 2022 (UTC)

Noted here FloridaArmy (talk) 04:59, 24 July 2022 (UTC)

Birth year and age
The given birth year of 1883 follows from the claim in her obituary that she was 104 years old when she died in 1987. However, IMBD lists her birth date as May 9, 1896 and given the evidence, I think it's worth considering that the obituary may be incorrect.

Consider the 1953 interview in the El Paso Herald, in which she says "I imagine they knew I was only 16. I went to Toronto, Canada, and was with a stock company there for two weeks. Then I went with another company for five months and from there, I had a role in the Broadway production of Toto." That seems to indicate that these three jobs were in succession. If she had been born in 1883, then there was at least a 21 year gap between her first stage job at 16 (1899) and her appearance in Toto in 1921 that is completely glossed over in the phrase "and from there..." The announcement of her casting in 'Toto' Stage News from April 2021 says she was "recently with Willard Mack, lending further credence to the fact there was no such gap in her employment.

Additional indications to the contrary: if she was born in 1883, that means she began her film career in her 40s, at a time when women were considered to have "aged out" of Hollywood by age 30. She would have been 46 years old in this picture from 1929: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/106688062/in-stage-and-screen-comedies/ ... possible, but I personally don't buy it. I'm not going to edit the body of the article at this time, because we need sources to pin down her birth date (or at least year). But I did think the discrepancy was worth mentioning here for future research. 97.102.30.205 (talk) 16:20, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks for taking the time to look into that. Yeah, it seems likely that they got her age wrong. We'll need to see if there's any sources out there with the correct date. I presume whomever added it to IMDB must have had some sort of source to have an accurate birth date like that. Silver  seren C 22:53, 20 September 2022 (UTC)