Corinne Malvern
| Corinne Malvern | |
|---|---|
| Born |
December 13, 1901 Accomack County, Virginia |
| Died | November 9, 1956 (aged 54) Weston, Connecticut |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Illustration |
| Notable work | Little Golden Books |
Corinne Malvern (December 13, 1901 – November 9, 1956) was an American commercial artist, active as a fashion advertising artist and illustrator of children's books between the early 1930s and her death in 1956. She painted magazine covers and worked as Art Editor of Ladies Home Journal magazine. She is best known for her illustrations in the Little Golden Books series, including Heidi, Frosty the Snow Man (also known, incorrectly, as Frosty the Snowman), The Night Before Christmas, Doctor Dan the Bandage Man, and Nurse Nancy. She illustrated 32 books, 17 for Little Golden Books. She also wrote and illustrated at least one children's book (How Big, later republished as How Big Are You, Little Golden Books, 1949). Her last book, Five Pennies To Spend, was published in 1955.
Malvern was born in Accomack County, Virginia, and raised in Newark, New Jersey. Her mother, Cora Malvern, worked as wardrobe mistress for theater companies, and Corinne and her older sister Gladys Malvern (born July 17, 1903, or 1897) worked as child actresses in plays vaudeville, and operas. She claimed to have been born in 1906, but the 1920 United States Census, photographs of her on stage in 1907 (portraying a character supposed to be three years old), a 1907 New York Evening Telegram article and ships' passenger records, make it clear she was born in 1901.
Malvern performed in the Henry W. Savage New English Grand Opera Company in the American premiere of Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly in the role of the child "Dolore" ("Sorrow," or "Trouble" in English), Butterfly's son, in front of an audience that included the Viscount Aoki, Japanese Ambassador to the United States, and John Luther Long, author of the novella on which the opera was based, on October 15, 1907, and subsequently toured with the production across the United States and Canada.
By 1910 the two sisters were working regularly in traveling vaudeville productions, as well as in the burgeoning New York movie industry, Gladys as an ingenue and Corinne as "fairies, babies, witches, and other funny little people." In 1915 Corinne appeared in a motion picture, The Luring Lights, as the character Rose Malleen.
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