TEXT ` ≈Clark, Marguerite1883╨1940actorBorn in Avondale (now part of Cincinnati), Ohio, on February 22, 1883, Helen Marguerite Clark was educated in public schools and in a convent school in St. Martin, Ohio. Her success in a number of amateur theatricals, together with the encouragement of an elder sister, her guardian from the age of thirteen, directed her to a career on the stage. She sang in the chorus of the Strakosch Opera company in Baltimore in 1899 and made her New York debut in 1900 as a chorus girl in a production of The Belle of Bohemia. Parts in The Burgomaster and The New Yorkers in 1901 and The Wild Rose in 1902 led to her winning the ingenue role of Polly, opposite DeWolf Hopper, in Mr. Pickwick in 1903, a role that brought her her first popularity. Over the next decade her fame grew as she appeared in Victor Herbert╒s Babes in Toyland in 1903; Happyland with Hopper in 1905; The Pied Piper in 1908; The King of Cadonia, a revival of Jim the Penman, Lights of London, and the very popular Baby Mine in 1910; simultaneously in evening performances of The Affairs of Anatol with Lionel Barrymore and matinees of Snow White for children in 1912; and Prunella in 1913. In 1914 Clark accepted a lavish offer from Adolph Zukor and signed on with his Famous Players film company (soon to become Famous Players╨Lasky and eventually Paramount). Her first film, Wildflower, was a great success and was followed over the next five years by such films as The Crucible, Goose Girl, Gretna Green, Seven Sisters, Still Waters, Molly Make Believe, The Prince and the Pauper (in which she played both roles), Topsy and Eva (another double role, in a screenplay based on Uncle Tom╒s Cabin), Come Out of the Kitchen, Rich Man Poor Man, Golden Bird, Snow White, and others. Her tiny figure and air of sweet youthful innocence made her enormously popular and the chief competitor of Mary Pickford for the affection of the motion picture public. Her performance on stage and screen of Snow White was said to have shaped the much later Walt Disney animated version. During World War I Clark did publicity films and tours on behalf of Liberty Loan drives. In August 1918 she married Harry P. Williams, a New Orleans businessman, and on the expiration of her contract she retired from the movies in 1919. She returned only to appear in Scrambled Wives in 1921. After her husband╒s death in 1936 she briefly managed his Wedell╨Williams Air Service before selling it to Eastern Air Lines. She died in New York City on September 25, 1940. åstyl ` F ! ¬ 5¬ 5¬ # !I !I ( !I 4 !I C !I H !I W !I d !I q !I ├ !I ╧ !I O !I _ !I i !I r !I ê !I û !I á !I │ !I ┬ !I ╨ !I ╥ !I Γ !I ∙ !I !I 6 !I K !I r !I | !I ù !I ƒ !I ½ 5¬ ¼ !I h !I r !I ├ !I ╧ !I ╤ !I █ !I ▌ !I Θ !I δ !I ° !I · !I !I !I !I !I 5 !I X !I e !I ò !I ª !I ⌐ !I └ !I ┬ !I ╙ !I ╒ !I α !I Γ !I ∞ !I g !I ▐ t !I 5¬ !I . !I = !I link ` HYPR g t
