Edwina Robbins (1915) 🇺🇸

Edwina Robbins, a popular Vitagraph player of character parts, formerly known as Edwina Mercier, the auto girl of vaudeville, was born in Hoboken, N. J., January 18, 1886. Her father, Edmond Louis Karrer, is a descendant of one of seven brothers of one of the oldest families of Detroit, Mich., where he was born. His ancestors spelled their name Carr.

At the age of seven Miss Robbins practically began earning her own living, receiving $5 a week playing the summer resorts. Her first real professional appearance was with Weber and Fields in a performance given in aid of a well known charity. After, she appeared with her mother in vaudeville playing in old time sketches. This led to a continuous engagement extending over a period of fifteen years on the Keith Circuit, as the Auto Girl.

During the summer of 1914 Miss Robbins became interested in motion pictures and after a try out at the Vitagraph Studios entered into negotiations with the heads of the company for a position in the stock company. It is needless to state that she was successful, as her appearance in such popular Vitagraph photodramas as The Win(k)some Widow, Sonny Jim and the Valentine, C. O. D., Postponed, Crooky Scruggs, Spades are Trumps, The Turn of the Road and many others, will attest. In the majority of the pictures for which Miss Robbins has posed, she has been cast for eccentric comedy parts, while as a matter of fact she prefers character parts of any description.

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Collection: Moving Picture World, June 1915

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see also George De Carlton (1915)