From Wikipedia Ethel Clayton (November 8, 1882 — June 6, 1966) was an American actress of the silent film era. Clayton's screen debut came in 1909, in a short called Justified. She jockeyed her early film appearances with a burgeoning stage career. Her pretty blond looks were reminiscent of the famous Gibson Girl drawings by Charles Dana Gibson. On the stage she appeared mainly in musicals or musical reviews such as The Ziegfeld Follies of 1911. These musical appearances indicate a singing talent Clayton may have possessed but went unused in her many silent screen performances. In 1912 she appeared in "The Country Boy" on stage at the Lyceum Theatre in Rochester New York and made her feature length film debut in For the Love of a Girl. The film was directed by Barry O'Neil. She was cast with Harry Myers, Charles Arthur, and Peter Lang. She was also directed by William Demille, Robert G. Vignola, George Melford, Donald Crisp, Dallas M. Fitzgerald, and Clifford Sanforth. Like many silent film actors Clayton's career was hurt by the coming of sound to motion pictures. She continued her career in small parts in movies until she retired in 1948. Her screen credits number more than 180. Clayton was first married to actor-director Joseph Kaufman until his death in 1918 in the Spanish Influenza epidemic. She later married silent film actor and former star Ian Keith twice and they divorced twice. In both cases Clayton cited cruelty and excessive drinking. Clayton and Keith were first married in Minneapolis in 1928 and first separated on January 13, 1931. Ethel Clayton died on June 6, 1966 at St. John's Hospital in Oxnard, California, aged 83. She was buried at Ivy Lawn Memorial Park in Ventura, California. For her contributions to the motion picture industry, Ethel Clayton has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Filmography

• 1943Dixie — Woman (uncredited)
• 1943Mardi Gras — Mardi Gras Woman
• 1943True to Life — Woman (uncredited)
• 1942Beyond the Blue Horizon — Guest at Chase's Residence (uncredited)
• 1942The Major and the Minor — Ball Guest (uncredited)
• 1941New York Town — (uncredited)
• 1941West Point Widow — Nurse
• 1940Love Thy Neighbor — Minor Role
• 1939Boy Trouble
• 1939Cafe Society — Woman
• 1939Geronimo
• 1939King of Chinatown — Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
• 1939The Sap Takes a Wrap — Mrs. Wallace
• 1938Cocoanut Grove — Undetermined Role
• 1938If I Were King — Old Woman (uncredited)
• 1938Men with Wings — Woman
• 1938Say It in French — Bit Part (uncredited)
• 1938You and Me — Employment Agency Clerk (uncredited)
• 1937Artists & Models — Seamtress (uncredited)
• 1937Easy Living — Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
• 1937Exclusive
• 1937Hold 'Em Navy — Girl
• 1937Make Way for Tomorrow — Customer (uncredited)
• 1937Rich Relations — Mrs. Blair
• 1937Turn Off the Moon — Lady (uncredited)
• 1937Waikiki Wedding — Tourist (uncredited)
• 1937Wells Fargo — Pioneer Woman
• 1936Hollywood Boulevard — Undetermined Minor Role (uncredited)
• 1936The Accusing Finger
• 1936Yours for the Asking — Casino Patron (uncredited)
• 1933Let's Fall in Love — Star
• 1933Private Jones — Mrs. Winthrop (uncredited)
• 1933Secrets — Audrey Carlton
• 1932The All-American — Mrs. Bowen
• 1932The Crooked Circle — Yvonne
• 1932Thrill of Youth — Alice Fenwick
• 1930Call of the Circus
• 1929Hit the Deck — Mrs. Payne
• 1927The Princess from Hoboken — Mrs. O'Brien
• 1927The Princess on Broadway — Mrs. Seymour
• 1926His New York Wife — Alicia Duval
• 1926Merry Widower — The Hunter's Wife
• 1926Risky Business — Mrs. Stoughton
• 1926Sunny Side Up — Cissy Cason
• 1926The Bar-C Mystery — Mrs. Lane
• 1925Lightnin' — Margaret Davis
• 1925Wings of Youth — Katherine Manners
• 1923Can a Woman Love Twice? — Mary Grant
• 1923The Remittance Woman — Marie Campbell
• 1922For the Defense — Anne Woodstock
• 1922Her Own Money — Mildred Carr
• 1922If I Were Queen — Ruth Townley
• 1922The Cradle — Margaret Harvey
• 1921Beyond — Avis Langley
• 1921Exit the Vamp — Marion Shipley
• 1921Sham — Katherine Van Riper
• 1921The Price of Possession — Helen Carston
• 1921Wealth — Mary McLeod
• 1920A City Sparrow — Milly West
• 1920A Lady in Love — Barbara Martin
• 1920Crooked Streets — Gail Ellis
• 1920The 13th Commandment — Daphne Kip
• 1920The Ladder of Lies — Edith Parrish
• 1920The Sins of Rosanne — Roseanne Ozanne
• 1920Young Mrs. Winthrop — Constance Winthrop
• 1919A Sporting Chance — Carey Brent
• 1919Maggie Pepper — Maggie Pepper
• 1919Men, Women, and Money — Marcel Middleton
• 1919More Deadly Than the Male — Helen O'Hara
• 1919Pettigrew's Girl — Daisy Heath
• 1918Stolen Hours — Diana Lester
• 1918The Mystery Girl — Countess Therese
• 1918The Witch Woman — Marie Beaupre
• 1918Women's Weapons — Anne Elliot
• 1917Man's Woman — Violet Galloway
• 1917The Bondage of Fear — Vesta Wheatley
• 1917The Dormant Power
• 1917The Stolen Paradise
• 1917The Web of Desire — Grace Miller
• 1917The Woman Beneath — Betty Fairchild
• 1917Yankee Pluck — Polly Pollard
• 1916A Woman's Way — Marion Livingston
• 1916Beyond the Wall — Helen Carlton
• 1916Dollars and the Woman — Madge Hilyer
• 1916His Brother's Wife — Helen Barton
• 1916Husband and Wife — Doris Baker
• 1916The Hidden Scar — Janet Hall
• 1916The New South — Georgia Gwynne, as an adult
• 1915A Woman Went Forth — Ethel Rogers
• 1915Here Comes the Bride — Reed's Stenographer
• 1915His Soul Mate — Nellie - the Stenographer
• 1915It All Depends — Clara Dean
• 1915The Great Divide — Ruth Jordan
• 1915The Sporting Duchess — Lady Muriel Desborough
• 1915The Unmarried Husband — Nell - the Actress Wife
• 1914The Fortune Hunter — Betty Graham
• 1914The House Next Door — Ulrica Cotswolt
• 1914The Lion and the Mouse — Shirley Rossmore / Sarah Green
• 1914The Wolf — Jules' Sweetheart
• 1913Friend John — Ruth Rogers - the Quaker Maid
• 1913The Price Demanded — Rose Delane
• 1913When the Earth Trembled — Dora Sims
• 1912Just Maine Folks — Ethel Walters
• 1912Pilgrim's Progress — Elizabeth - Bunyon's Wife
• 1910The Tout's Remembrance — Agnes Dudley - the Storekeeper's Daughter

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 1917The Volunteer — Self - Cameo Appearance