Mrs. Charles Emmett Mack — A Heart Courageous (1928) 🇺🇸

Mrs. Charles Emmett Mack is picking up the threads of her husband’s career, and is endeavoring to carry on.

Charlie Mack [Charles Emmett Mack] was killed in an automobile accident last year on location, and because the way to success had been precarious, his wife was left with but small means for the support of herself and child.

Mrs. Mack had worked in pictures at one time, so naturally turned to them for a livelihood. Producers have been kind when they could, and she has won several rôles — a small one, in “A Harp in Hock,” and a fairly important bit as a cashier, in The Jazz Singer, with Al Jolson.

The Griffith [D. W. Griffith] studio at Mamaroneck, New York, was the scene of her first meeting with Charlie Mack, about the time he got his first chance, in “Dream Street.” They were married in 1922, and as Mrs. Mack herself tells it, Charlie introduced her to his Irish relatives in Scranton, Pennsylvania, as a little dago whom he found carrying a monkey, her father wearing corduroy trousers and playing a hurdy-gurdy.

“I have memories,” she said, “of a boyish, smiling face, and of Charlie’s chasing me round the house, of going to the movies, just he and I, after counting our money to see if we could make it, of the planting of forget-me-nots under my window — how little we both thought that one year later they would bloom only to decorate his dead body. “He told me that day he said good-by at the Mission Inn, ‘I am late and must hurry back. You finish your lunch.

“‘Good-by, Mike’ — he always called me Mike — ‘I’ll see you at half-past four,’ and left. That was all. About ten minutes later they told me he had left me forever.”

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Collection: Picture Play Magazine, March 1928