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Gaines, Jane. "Eugenie Magnus Ingleton." In Jane Gaines, Radha Vatsal, and Monica Dall’Asta, eds. ''Women Film Pioneers Project''. New York, NY: Columbia University Libraries, 2013.  <https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-0akf-p282>[https://wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-eugenie-magnus-ingleton/]
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Gaines, Jane. (N.D.) "Eugenie Magnus Ingleton." In Jane Gaines, Radha Vatsal, and Monica Dall’Asta, eds. ''Women Film Pioneers Project''. New York, NY: Columbia University Libraries, 2013.  <https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-0akf-p282>[https://wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-eugenie-magnus-ingleton/]
 
 
Jane Gaines. "Eugenie Magnus Ingleton", ''Women Film Pioneers Project''
 
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Revision as of 05:35, 19 August 2021

Eugenie Magnus (fl. 1874-1936) was a British nurse and spy, an actress and later Hollywood scenario editor and writer.

Also known as: Anne Eugenie Magnus, Eugenie Leonard, Mrs. Fred W. Leonard, E. M. Ingleton, E. Magnus Ingleton, Mrs. Eugenie Ingleton

Wrongly referred to as "Eugene Magnus"" by D.C. Boonzaier (1928), and hence also by F.C.L. Bosman (1980).

Biography

Born April 24, 1874 -

In a 1915 "interview" in Moving Picture World (possibly written by herself) she claims to have been not only a nurse and newspaper correspondent during the Boer War in South Africa (1899-1901), but to have worked for the British Secret Service.[]

She passed away on 3 August, 1936

Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance

She was a member of the cast of What Happened to Jones (Broadhurst), performed by Charles Arnold and the touring London company, when they played in South Africa in January of 1900.

Sources

Gaines, Jane. (N.D.) "Eugenie Magnus Ingleton." In Jane Gaines, Radha Vatsal, and Monica Dall’Asta, eds. Women Film Pioneers Project. New York, NY: Columbia University Libraries, 2013. <https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-0akf-p282>[1]


D.C. Boonzaier, 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: p.407.

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