page_title: Mabel Bert
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Mabel Bert / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Doris Rankin
context_page_description: Mabel Bert was an Australian-born American actress.
context_section_description: She left school when 17 years old, and on 25 May 1879, she married Edward G. Bert, theatrical manager working for his brother, Fred Bert, a pioneer theater man of Oakland. She had two daughters, Phyllis and Gladys, and made her debut on the stage in 1880.  
  In 1887, she began a relationship with Arthur McKee Rankin (known as McKee Rankin) and became pregnant. She gave birth to a baby girl, Doris Rankin, who later married Lionel Barrymore, Bert's costar in Arizona. In 1888 her husband filed for divorce on the ground of desertion. In 1892, Rankin's wife filed for divorce, but Rankin, a devoted Catholic, did not marry Bert. Rankin already had two daughters (Gladys and Phyllis) from his marriage to Kitty Blanchard.     
  On 28 July 1893, Bert married Forrest Robinson, who was an actor from Broadway and later starred in films of Mary Pickford. They met when performing together in The Lost Paradise.
  After becoming a widow in the 1930s, she lived with her daughter in Denver.
caption: Doris Rankin
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