Eugenie Besserer — Motography’s Gallery of Picture Players (1912) 🇺🇸

Miss Eugenie Besserer ran away from school when she was twelve years old, and she’s been running ever since.

She didn’t like the routine of school work in Ottawa, Canada, so she took a quiet little run to New York city, where she arrived with a quarter and the address of a former governess, and, after discovering the whereabouts of an uncle, made herself at home in his household and proceeded to become proficient in the art of fencing, holding the woman’s championship record for several years.

Her next try was at the stage, and she made good with McKee Rannkin, Nance O’Neil, Wilton Lackaye and others. Then she resumed fencing as an instructor, and four years later returned to the stage as understudy to Margaret Anglin.

At eighteen she had written a successful play in which she was starred. She went to Los Angeles, and landed in popular favor and leading lady roles with Selig pictures.

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Collection: Motography Magazine, November 1912