| LC control no. | nr 97026677 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Close, Ivy, 1890-1968 |
| Birth date | 1890-06-15 |
| Death date | 1968-12-04 |
| Place of birth | Stockton-on-Tees (England) |
| Place of death | Goring (England) |
| Profession or occupation | Actresses |
| Found in | Abel Gance's la roue, 199-: credits (Ivy Close) Intl. film necrology, 1981 (Close, Ivy; actress; d. Dec. 4, 1968, age 78) Internet movie database, July 29, 1997 (b. 1890; d. Dec. 4, 1968) Film Encyclopedia, 1979 (b. 1893, d. 1968) Wikipedia, September 8, 2020 (Ivy Close; Ivy Lilian Close (born 15 June 1890 in Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham; died 4 December 1968 in Goring, Oxfordshire) was a British actress; she acted in 44 films between 1912 and 1929; her first husband was photographer and filmmaker Elwin Neame (1885-1923), who she married in 1910; together they established Ivy Close Films in 1914, one of the first movie production companies founded by a film star; this marriage produced two sons: the director, cinematographer, producer and screenwriter Ronald Neame, and author and screenwriter Derek Neame (1915-1979); her grandson, by Ronald, was producer and screenwriter Christopher Neame and her great-grandson, by Christopher, is producer Gareth Neame; in 1938 she married Australian stuntman and make-up artist Curly Batson; this marriage lasted until his death in 1957; Close's film career ended with the advent of talkies, as her English accent was deemed unsuitable for American audiences; her great-grandson incorporated a passing reference to her career in an episode of Downton Abbey) |
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