Charlotte Ives

Charlotte Ives Boissevain (November 27, 1886[1] – September 1976), born Charlotte Danziger, was an American actress who appeared on Broadway and in silent films.

This article is about the American actress. For the American temperance and women's rights activist, see Charlotte Ives Cobb Godbe Kirby.
Charlotte Ives
A young white woman with dark eyes
Charlotte Ives, from a 1917 newspaper
Born
Charlotte Danziger

November 27, 1886
Boston, Massachusetts, US
DiedSeptember 1976 (89 years old)
Cap d'Antibes, France
Other namesCharlotte Boissevain (married name, after 1921)
OccupationActress
RelativesBoissevain family, Edna St. Vincent Millay (sister-in-law)

Early life

Charlotte "Lottie" Danziger was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the daughter of Charles Danziger and Leah Cohen Danziger.[2][3] Her mother was born in Hungary; she died in 1904.[4]

The Man of Mystery (1917), print advertisement, including Charlotte Ives credit and image

Career

Danziger acted using her original name in 1909, as the protegee of Eleanor Robson;[5] but she soon began to use the name "Charlotte Ives", and this was the name she used personally and professionally thereafter.[2] Film credits for Ives included roles in several silent pictures: Clothes (1914), The Dictator (1915), A Prince in a Pawnshop (1916), The Man of Mystery (1917),[6] The Warfare of the Flesh (1917), Prince Cosimo (1919), and The Splendid Romance (1919). On stage, she appeared in Broadway and touring productions including The Upstart (1910),[7] The Turning Point (1910), As a Man Thinks (1911), Passers-by (1912), Liberty Hall (1913), A Woman Killed with Kindness (1914), A Scrap of Paper (1914), The High Cost of Loving (1914), The Brat (1917), What's Your Husband Doing? (1917), The Man Who Stayed Home (1918), and She Had to Know (1925).

Personal life

Ives was engaged to marry opera singer Antonio Scotti in 1912,[8] and married Dutch-born importer Jan M. Boissevain in 1921. Her brother-in-law, Eugen Boissevain, was married first to suffragist Inez Milholland, and later to poet Edna St. Vincent Millay.[2][9] She became a Dutch citizen upon marriage, but petitioned for the restoration of her US citizenship in 1940, under the provisions of the Cable Act of 1922.[1] Charlotte Ives Boissevain lived in Cap d'Antibes in her later years, and was close to fellow American actress Maxine Elliott there.[10][11] She had two sisters, Helen I. Maltby and Augusta Hartley.[12][13] Her husband died in 1964, and she died in 1976, aged 90 years, in France.

References
  1. Some sources give Charlotte Ives's year of birth as 1891 or 1897; 1886 is the year given on her petition for American citizenship dated April 11, 1940, via Ancestry. November 27, 1886 is the same birthdate as Charlotte Danziger's Massachusetts birth record, also via Ancestry.
  2. "Charlotte Ives Marries; Actress Wed to Jan M. Boissevain, Importer, in Municipal Chapel". The New York Times. 1921-05-13. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-08-07.
  3. "More US Show Folk Abroad". Variety: 63. October 11, 1939 – via Internet Archive.
  4. "Danziger". The Boston Globe. 1904-02-11. p. 9. Retrieved 2022-08-08 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Return of the Hunter-Bradfords". Hartford Courant. 1909-04-17. p. 12. Retrieved 2022-08-08 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. Tinee, Mae (1917-01-23). "Mr. Sothern as You Like Mr. Sothern". Chicago Tribune. p. 14. Retrieved 2022-08-07 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. Hall, O. L. (July 1910). "Plays of the Hour". The Red Book: 565–566.
  8. "Will Not Wed Scotti". The New York Times. January 25, 1913. p. 15 – via ProQuest.
  9. Milford, Nancy (2001). Savage beauty : the life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Internet Archive. New York : Random House. pp. 373, 377–378. ISBN 978-0-375-76081-5 – via Internet Archive.
  10. Forbes-Robertson, Diana (1964). My Aunt Maxine: The Story of Maxine Elliott. Viking Press. pp. 16, 200, 270, 282. ISBN 978-0-670-49712-6.
  11. Emerson, Maureen (2018-04-12). Riviera Dreaming: Love and War on the Côte d'Azur. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-78672-338-3.
  12. "Mrs. Helen I. Maltby". Asbury Park Press. 1955-05-02. p. 2. Retrieved 2022-08-08 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. "Helen Maltby". The Daily Record. 1955-05-26. p. 23. Retrieved 2022-08-08 – via Newspapers.com.
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