Eleanor Boardman

Eleanor Boardman was born on Aug 19, 1898 in USA. Eleanor Boardman's big-screen debut came with The Strangers' Banquet directed by Marshall Neilan in 1922. Eleanor Boardman is known for The Crowd directed by King Vidor, Eleanor Boardman stars as Mary Sims and James Murray as John Sims. The most recent award Eleanor Boardman achieved is Walk of Fame. The upcoming new movie Eleanor Boardman plays is The Squaw Man which will be released on Sep 05, 1931.

Philadelphia-born Eleanor Boardman had always wanted to be an actress, and as soon as she graduated high school she headed for New York to conquer Broadway. When Broadway proved not quite ready to be conquered yet, she took whatever jobs she could find, including one as an artist's model. In that capacity she heard that the Selwyn Organization, a major producer of Broadway plays, was looking for girls with no stage experience. Since she was more than qualified in that respect, she tried out for the job and before she knew it she was in the chorus line of "Rock-a-Bye-Baby" until the show closed three months later. She then got a job in another Selwyn production, "A Very Good Young Man", but that show closed not long after opening. It was at this time that a casting director for Goldwyn Pictures hit the Broadway scene looking for new faces. She tested for him and impressed him enough that he finally picked her out of a pool of more than 1000 young girls who tested for the opportunity to go to Hollywood. She made her first film in 1922 and stayed in the business until 1935, when she retired. She was married twice, first to director