Sylvia Cavalho
Sylvia Cavalho ()[] was an actress and writer.
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Biography
Cavalho was apparently married to (or the partner of) Clifford Pembroke, D.C. Boonzaier (1923) referring to them as a "clever couple".
They later worked in film, starring together in Sanctuary (1916), for which Cavalho had written the script (based on the play by ) and she appearing as "Anne Moffatt"" in Little Women (1917).
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
She and Clifford Pembroke were the leading performers for the Wheeler Brothers when they put on The Sign of the Cross at the Opera House, Cape Town, as their opening production on 19 November, 1904. They are next mentioned, alongside Edward Vincent and Hugh Buckler, as key cast members in what Boonzaier calls "the finest production of the year 1905" - The Darling of the Gods, at the Opera House, Cape Town (opening on 5 June).
Sources
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0146757/
D.C. Boonzaier, 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1923. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.421-2
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