Beulah Poynter
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Beulah Poynter
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| Born |
June 6, 1883 Eagleville, Missouri |
| Died |
August 13, 1960 (aged 77) Manhasset, Long Island, New York |
| Other names | Beulah Poynter Leffler |
| Occupation | American actor, writer and playwright |
Beulah Poynter (June 6, 1883 – August 13, 1960) was an American author, playwright and actor. Though her career touched on Broadway and Hollywood, Poynter was better known for her starring rôles with stock and touring companies and as a prolific author of mystery and romance stories. Poynter was probably best remembered by theatergoers for her title rôle in Lena Rivers, a drama she had reworked for the stage from the novel by Mary J. Holmes.
Beulah Marguerite Poynter was born in northern Missouri at Eagleville and raised in nearby Bethany. She was the daughter of Henry Douglas Poynter and Lucy "Lula" Walters and an older sister to brothers, Fred and Victor. Her father, a hotel manager, was a Missourian whose family came from Kentucky, while her mother was born in Iowa to parents who had migrated from Ohio. Poynter was a paternal descendant of James Nevill, a veteran of the American Revolutionary War from Virginia. In her youth Poynter attended area schools before joining the chorus of a local opera company at around the age of sixteen.
By 1904 Poynter was a leading actress touring with the Eastern Company in Out of the Fold, a comedy-drama by Langdon McCormick. The following year she joined the Pavilion Stock Company to play Bossy in their road production of Charles Hale Hoyt's farce comedy, A Texas Steer. In August 1905 Poynter began a tour playing the title rôle in a dramatization by Edward W. Roland and Edwin Clifford of Charlotte Mary Brame's novel, Dora Thorne. A little over a year later, beginning October 1906, Poynter embarked on a tour with Nixon and Co. performing the title rôle in Lena Rivers, a drama she had adapted from the novel by Mary J. Holmes. The play proved to be a hit with theatergoers and would tour with Poynter at the helm for four seasons.
In August 1910 Poynter began a tour presenting The Little Girl He Forgot, a drama that she both wrote and, as June Holly, starred in. The play toured into April 1911 and was followed that August by an engagement at the Majestic Theatre in Fort Wayne, Indiana with productions of her dramatization of Edward Eggleston's novel, The Hoosier Schoolmaster, and Poynter’s original play Mother's Girl. In October at the Park Theatre in Indianapolis she played Rosalie in Edward Peple's drama The Call of the Cricket.
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