Lillian Worth (stage name), born Lillian Burgher Murphy, (June 24, 1884 – February 23, 1952) was an American actress. She appeared in 58 films between 1913 and 1937.
Lillian Murphy was born on June 24, 1884, in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Katherine Stahler and John B. Murphy. After she married in 1905, she began using her husband’s surname as her stage name; and by 1909 she, as Lillian Wiggins, had gained public attention and favorable reviews for her performance in the theatrical production Beauty Spot By early 1913, she was a leading actress at Pathé’s West Coast studio in Edendale, Los Angeles, where she starred in Western films. Pathé transferred Wiggins a few months later to its East Coast studio in Jersey City, New Jersey, and then in October 1913 to its new Southern studio in St. Augustine, Florida. In March 1914, Pathé once again relocated her, dispatching her to Europe, where she worked at the company’s Paris studio before moving to London. There she made films first for British and Colonial Kinematography Company and then for Motograph Film Company.
Wiggins returned to the United States in September 1914 and the next year started performing in films for Deer Film Company. Following the dissolution of her first marriage, she married again in 1918. She, however, elected not to use her second husband’s surname professionally; instead, she adopted the new stage name Lillian Worth, which is how she continued to be credited until 1937.
Lillian Worth was married twice. On May 3, 1905, she married Benjamin Platt Wiggins in Brooklyn, New York. The couple separated after a couple of years, and she filed for divorce in Reno, Nevada in 1911, although on that occasion she did not obtain the divorce. She filed again in Los Angeles, California, and was finally granted a divorce in 1914. She then married Erville Alderson, an American actor, on January 14, 1918, in Sydney, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. That marriage too ended in divorce in 1925.
Worth died at age 67 in Los Angeles, California, on February 23, 1952. In death records from that time, she is identified as Lillian Alderson despite the fact that she had divorced Erville Alderson 27 years earlier. Her gravesite is located at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles.
Lillian Worth Biography / Wiki
| Name | Lillian Worth |
| Also Know | Mademoiselle Kithnou, Lillian Wiggins |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Brooklyn, New York, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1884-06-24 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 67 |
| Deathday | 1952-02-23 |
Lillian Worth Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Her Atonement | 1915-09-20 | … | |
| The Foolish Age | Flossy | 1921-10-16 | After graduating from college, rich girl Margery Carr decides to do some good in the world. Much to the chagrin of her father, she decides to open an … |
| The Adventures of Tarzan | Queen La of Opar | 1921-12-01 | Tarzan spurns the love of La, Queen of Opar. When he isn’t trying to keep the Bolshevik Rokoff and Clayton (pretender to the Greystoke estate) from re… |
| The Fatal Fortune | 1919-12-15 | A young newspaperwoman travels to a South Seas island to search for buried treasure…. | |
| The Fighting Sheriff | Florabell | 1931-05-15 | A dying Jack makes Bob and Flash promise not to tell his sister that he was an outlaw. When Bob confronts Flash with his muffler found at the stage ho… |
| Stairs of Sand | Babe | 1929-06-08 | An outlaw with a Heart of Gold sacrificing his own life for the happiness of two young people in love…. |
| In Search of a Sinner | Valeska | 1920-03-07 | Georgiana Chadbourne is a young widow. Her dead husband was such a straight arrow that it bored her, and after a proper enough mourning period, she go… |
| The Docks of New York | Steve’s Girl | 1928-09-16 | A blue-collar worker on New York’s depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide…. |
| Other Men’s Women | Waitress | 1931-01-17 | The friendship of two working stiff railroad engineers is put to the test when one falls for the other’s wife…. |
| Rustlers’ Ranch | Tessie | 1926-04-11 | Lee Crush, an out-of-work cowhand, gets into a fight with Bull Dozier and knocks him through a railing. Thinking he has killed the man, Lee takes to h… |
| Upstream | Sister Team | 1927-01-30 | A silent comedy set in an actor’s boardinghouse. Some plot points are seemingly inspired by the Barrymore dynasty…. |
| Dangerous Paradise | Myrtle | 1930-02-13 | Heyst, a hermit on his own tropical island, plays unwilling host to red-headed stowaway Alma. Danger looms…… |
| Private Number | Maud | 1936-06-05 | Ellen Neal, a young and inexperienced maid, becomes romantically involved with her employers son which causes various complications. The head butler a… |
| Maybe It’s Love | First Complaining Wife (uncredited) | 1935-01-12 | Director William C. McGann’s 1935 film stars Gloria Stuart and Ross Alexander as a young couple in love who face economic woes once they’re wed…. |
| Stars Over Broadway | Buxom Singer | 1935-11-23 | An aggressive agent turns a hotel porter into an overnight sensation…. |
| Stranded | Blonde (uncredited) | 1935-06-29 | A Traveler’s Aid worker who delights in solving people’s problems gets mixed up with gangsters…. |
| Carnival | Half Man-Half Woman | 1935-02-15 | “Chick” Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names “Poochy.” His fat… |
| The White Angel | Woman Donating Bandages (uncredited) | 1936-06-25 | In mid-nineteenth century England the medical establishment does not recognize the value of skilled nurses, cleanliness, nutrition and kindness. Flore… |
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