page_title: Henrietta Crosman
section_title: Films
hierarchical_section_title: Henrietta Crosman / Films
caption_attribution_description: English: Low resolution screenshot of Henrietta Crosman from the American film Charlie Chan's Secret (1936). The film is in the public domain due to the omission of a valid copyright notice on its original prints.
context_page_description: Henrietta Foster Crosman was an American stage and film actress.
context_section_description: Crosman, like many a heralded stage star, held off from motion pictures. But by 1914 and possibly out of curiosity she 'signed up', as the popular motto went at the time, for a one-picture deal with Adolph Zukor's Famous Players. It was a film version of The Unwelcome Mrs. Hatch, which as a play had been a winning success for Mrs Fiske in 1901 on Broadway. The Supreme Test followed in 1915 for Universal Studios but afterwards her silent film appearances were sporadic. Her husband Maurice Campbell joined his wife in the movie industry eventually becoming a noted director.
  By 1930 silent films had given way to talking pictures and as in 1914 the motion picture business courted stage trained actors. Crosman a veteran and now approaching seventy had a career resurgence endearing herself to a new younger generation who never had the chance to see her in her youth on stage. She gave a heartbreaking performance in a rare lead film role in Pilgrimage (1933) as the embittered mother of a soldier killed in World War I who travels to the Argonne and undergoes a spiritual renewal. An earlier talkie in which she appeared was The Royal Family of Broadway (1930), a Paramount version of the play by Edna Ferber, loosely based on the Barrymore family.
caption: Crosman in Charlie Chan's Secret (1936)
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