page_title: Edna Goodrich
section_title: 1911–1920
hierarchical_section_title: Edna Goodrich / 1911–1920
caption_attribution_description: English: "The American Club Woman Magazine", Motion Picture World, by Blanche MacDonald, July 1916, page 9
context_page_description: Edna Goodrich was an American Broadway actress, Florodora girl, author, and media sensation during the early 1900s. At one point, she was known as one of America's wealthiest and best dressed performers. She was married to Edwin Stacey of Cincinnati, Ohio, and later Nat C. Goodwin.
context_section_description: By the summer of 1910, the press began to circulate rumors of the Goodwins' impending separation amid rumors over Nat Goodwin's flirtation with another actress This began a two-year press and court battle over the terms of the prenuptial trust, with both Goodrich and Goodwin filing repeated suits against one another. The official divorce was granted in New York, with the judge allowing Ms. Goodrich to once again use her maiden name and barring Mr. Goodwin from ever marrying in the state again.
  From 1914 to August 1915, Edna Goodrich served as a nurse of World War I wounded for the British Army.  Her cottage was later turned into a convalescent home for soldiers returning from the front. Her mother's cousin, Sir Henry Worth Thornton, was the highest ranking American-born officer in the British Army.
  For the rest of the decade, Edna worked in theater and appeared in several movies of the Silent Screen, although she never captured the same degree of success as she enjoyed on stage. Also, she reportedly developed an alcohol addiction that caused her to be fired on the set of The Golden Chance (1915) by Cecil B. DeMille.
  Edna Goodrich retired from making films in 1918.
caption: Edna Goodrich (1916)
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