(
child),
Earle Williams, and the "
Vitagraph Dog"
Jean in
The Church Across the Way, 1912 Maurice was born on November 15, 1844, in
Morristown, Ohio. Originally a schoolteacher, during her long stage career, she appeared in support of
Edwin Booth,
Lawrence Barrett,
Joseph Jefferson, and
Helena Modjeska; her last engagement was with
Robert B. Mantell. She did not mind admitting that she was past sixty, but she had the heart of youth and was the best-loved of screen mothers. In a 1914 interview, she reflected on the great technological change ushered in by motion pictures, saying that it "[seemed] to be the most wonderful thing in the world that I, at my age, should be at the vanguard of my profession." She played in both
The Goddess and
The Battle Cry of Peace. She,
Russell Bassett,
Sarah Bernhardt,
W. Chrystie Miller,
Ruby Lafayette, Kate Meek (b. 1838), the veteran character actor
Matt B. Snyder and
Harold Lloyd regular
Anna Townsend were the eight oldest people working in film during the 1910s. She stayed with
Vitagraph as a "mother lady". She died April 30, 1918, in
Port Carbon, Pennsylvania at the age of 73. ==Selected filmography==