Josephine Williams

The obituary of Josephine Williams, who was born in Liverpool, England in 1855 and who died in the Lenox Hill Hospital, New York City, June 14, 1937, stated that she worked in the Peerless studios with Jeanne Eagels and Florence LaBadie. The information is seemingly confused, for Miss LaBadie never worked for Peerless, having spent nearly all of her screen career with Thanhouser. If indeed Miss Williams worked with Miss LaBadie, it may have been at Thanhouser, for Miss LaBadie’s only other screen work was with Biograph, where she had unimportant roles at the beginning of her career. Josephine Williams, a character actress on stage, was seen in such productions as Craig’s Wife, Moon on the Yellow River, The Royal Family, Kick In, and Her Master’s Voice. Little is known of her screen career, which may have included Thanhouser.