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May Carr

A Thanhouser Company player, in one film you can watch free online.

Watch May CarrOpens The Star of the Side Show (1912)

Biography

May Carr played a character role as a fat lady in a Thanhouser film in 1912.

From Bowers’ encyclopedia entry. Read the full biography below ↓

Filmography

Films you can watch

12:251912 · as the fat ladyThe Star of the Side Show

Photographs

May Carr, photograph. In THE STAR OF THE SIDESHOW, Marie Eline, in right foreground as a midget, Bertha Blanchard was the albino, David H. Thompson was the strongman, May Carr as the fat lady, Fanny Gregory as the bearded lady, and Robert Milasch, in the background as a giant. Courtesy of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

From the encyclopedia

The full biography

From Volume III: Biographies of Q. David Bowers’ Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, reproduced with permission and unchanged. 98 words.

Note: The Thanhouser actress is not to be confused with a different May Carr, actually Maybeth Carr, who was born circa 1913, was one of the children of actress Mary Carr, and in 1920 was seen in a child’s role in Over the Hill to the Poorhouse. In 1917 the family of this other Mary Carr owned a 2,500 acre ranch near Fossil, Oregon. Among Broadway and other stage engagements Mary Carr found time to raise hogs, chickens, and other livestock there.

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, “CARR, May.” thanhouser.org/research/people/may-carr/