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She came to South Africa once, to appear in ''[[Sam's Kid]]'' for [[African Film Productions]] (1922), directed by [[Dick Cruikshanks]], and also starring [[Hayford Hobbs]] and [[M.A. Wetherell]].   
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She came to South Africa once, to appear in ''[[Sam's Kid]]'' for [[African Film Productions]] (1922), with  [[Dick Cruikshanks]] (who also directed), [[Hayford Hobbs]] and [[M.A. Wetherell]].   
  
 
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(b. Sugar Valley, Georgia, 30/06/1890 – d. Atlanta, Georgia, 17/07/1967). Actress. Gertrude Lyon was a child star in vaudeville before, as Gertrude McCoy, she became a prolific actress in silent movies.

In 1919 she married actor Duncan McRae (1881-1931), who had already acted with her in a number of shorts and had directed her in her own story Through Turbulent Waters (1915) for Edison.

In 1915 a theatre on Fulton Avenue in Baltimore was named after her by the owner, who clearly was a great admirer of the beautiful actress, but in 1927, after she retired from the screen, its name was changed. She died at the age of 77 as Mrs. Gertrude Lyon McRae in her home state of Georgia.

Her film roles

She appeared in numerous shorts for the Edison Company, many of them directed by the likes of Charles Brabin, C.J. Williams, Walter Edwin and Ashley Miller. Amongst them was A Fresh Air Romance (1912), directed by Harold M. Shaw, who later came to South Africa for African Film Productions. She made a few features in the United States, including The Blue Bird (1918), directed by Maurice Tourneur. However, most of them were produced in Great Britain, including three directed by her husband, actor Duncan McRae (1881-1931), who had already acted with her in a number of shorts and had directed her in her own story Through Turbulent Waters (1915) for Edison. They were married in 1919. In England her co-stars included Clive Brook, Seymour Hicks and C. Aubrey Smith, and in her last film, directed by Walter Summers, she played Lady Hamilton in Nelson (1926) opposite Cedric Hardwicke.

Her connection with South Africa

She came to South Africa once, to appear in Sam's Kid for African Film Productions (1922), with Dick Cruikshanks (who also directed), Hayford Hobbs and M.A. Wetherell.

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Sources

Redlands Daily Facts, 18 July 1967

Willis, John - Screen world 1968

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0566741/?ref_=fn_nm_nm_3

http://www.things-and-other-stuff.com/movies/profiles/gertrude-mccoy.html

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