Ida Darling appeared in a Thanhouser film in 1917.
Ida Darling
A Thanhouser Company player, credited on one Thanhouser film. No print of it is known to survive.
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From Bowers’ encyclopedia entry. Read the full biography below ↓
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From Volume III: Biographies of Q. David Bowers’ Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, reproduced with permission and unchanged. 145 words.
Ida Darling was born in New York City in 1876 (one account says 1875). Her early career was spent on the stage. She was in films in the teens, and by autumn 1916 she had worked with Famous Players (The Lost Bridegroom) and Fox (Hypocrisy and other films). At the time her business address was care of the Professional Woman’s League, New York City. Ida Darling appeared in the 1917 Thanhouser release of When Love Was Blind. She also played parts in All Star’s The Nightingale (October 1917), Paramount’s Mrs. Dane’s Defense (January 1918), and Vitagraph’s The Girl of Today (October 1918), among other releases. In 1917 her home address was 830 7th Avenue, New York City. She continued to appear in films through the mid 1930s. Her death occurred in Hollywood on June 5, 1936.
Bowers’ own filmography list is left out here: the filmography above lists the same films. Cite as: Bowers, Q. David. Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, “DARLING, Ida.” thanhouser.org/research/people/ida-darling/