This cabinet card features English actress, Eleanor Robson (1879-1979). She was also a well known public figure in the US. Robson was born in England. Robson’s father deserted her and her mother when she was just one years old. Her mother was an English born American stage actress and moved her family to the United States while Eleanor was still a child. Robson began her stage career in San Francisco at the age of 17. She worked in stock theater companies around the country. One of these stock companies was at Elitch Theater in Denver. She made her New York stage debut in 1900. She had a ten year career as a leading Broadway actress. She appeared in 17 Broadway plays between 1900 and 1923. These plays included Romeo and Juliet (1903), She Stoops to Conquer (1905), and Salomy Jane (1907).George Bernard Shaw wrote a play for her. Robson was very involved in the Metropolitan Opera association. She was on it’s board and also founded the Metropolitan Opera Guild. An inscription on the reverse of this cabinet card indicates that this photograph was taken during her appearance in “Romeo and Juliet”. She played Juliet and was a member of the Liebler & Co.’s “all-star cast”. She played opposite Kyrle Bellew (Romeo). Liebler & Co. was a play producing organization founded in 1898 by Theodore Liebler, Jr. and George Tyler. It was the leading theatrical production company until 1915. In 1910, Robson married August Belmont Jr and retired from the stage. Belmont was a German American financier, politician, and diplomat. (SOLD)
