Lucia Moore

Lucia Moore (December 10, 1867 – April 1, 1932) was an American actress who worked in stage and silent film. Born in Shreveport, Louisiana, she built a Broadway career spanning from 1900 to 1931, appearing frequently in plays written by women playwrights including Rachel Crothers, Anita Loos, Clare Kummer, Jean Webster, and Rida Johnson Young, as well as in original works by Maxwell Anderson, Barry Conners, George Scarborough, and Edgar Selwyn.

Moore made her Broadway debut in April 1900, playing Paulina in Stanislaus Stange's Quo Vadis at the New York Theatre. Later that same year she took on the role of Alice Palmer in Theodore Kremer's The Slaves of the Orient at the Star Theatre. After a decade away from Broadway, she returned in 1910 to star as Mrs. Comstock in Maurice Campbell's Where There's a Will at Weber's Music Hall, presented by the American Play Company. That year she also toured nationally as Mrs. Wright in Rida Johnson Young's The Lottery Man. In 1911 she appeared at the Theatre Royal in Nottingham, starring opposite British actress Winifred Delevanti in Arthur S. Gill's The Kiss of Isis.

Her Broadway work in the 1910s included George Scarborough's The Lure in 1913, a role she reprised in the 1914 silent film adaptation. Also in 1914 she returned to Broadway in Scarborough's What Is Love?, portraying Mrs. Samuel Hoyt. In 1918 she played Mrs. Wolfe in Another Man's Shoes, written by Laura Hinkley and Mabel Ferris, and appeared as Miss Pritchard in a Broadway revival of Jean Webster's Daddy-Long-Legs.

Moore created the role of Mrs. Smith in the original Broadway production of Rachel Crothers's 39 East in 1919, a performance she carried into the 1920 silent film version. The following year she played The Governor's Wife in Cora Dick Gantt's The Tavern, and in 1921 she portrayed Mary Vaughan in Clare Kummer's The Mountain Men. In 1923 she created the role of Mrs. Simmons in Anita Loos and John Emerson's The Whole Town's Talking, and that same year appeared as Mrs. Springer in Edgar Selwyn's Anything Might Happen.

Her later Broadway credits included Mrs. Harrington in Barry Conners's The Patsy in 1925, Mrs. Halevy in Maxwell Anderson's Saturday's Children in 1927, and Mrs. Weaver in J. C. and Elliott Nugent's Take My Advice that same year. She played Mrs. James Russell Lockhart Sr. in Conners's Girl Trouble in 1928 and Mrs. Farquhar in Don Mullally and H. A. Archibald's Coastwise in 1931.

Beyond the stage, Moore accumulated a number of silent film credits, among them Caprice of the Mountains (1916), Little Miss Happiness (1916) in the role of Nancy Allen, Her Double Life (1916) as Lady Clifford, and The Small Town Girl (1917) as the Mother. Moore died in New York City on April 1, 1932.