Alberta Gallatin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Alberta Gallatin

American actress

Date of Birth: 05-May-1861

Place of Birth: Cabell County, West Virginia, United States

Date of Death: 25-Aug-1948

Profession: actor, stage actor, film actor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Alberta Gallatin (April 5, 1861 – August 25, 1948) was an American stage and film actress active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
During her near forty-year career she acted in support of the likes of Elizabeth Crocker Bowers, James O’Neil, Edwin Booth, Joseph Jefferson, Thomas W.
Keene, Richard Mansfield, Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, Minnie Maddern Fiske, Otis Skinner, Maurice Barrymore, Joseph Adler, E.
H.
Sothern and James K.
Hackett.
Gallatin was perhaps best remembered by theatergoers for her varied classical roles, as Mrs.
Alving in Henrik Ibsen's domestic tragedy Ghosts and the central character in the Franz Grillparzer tragedy Sappho.
Counted among her few film roles was the part of Mrs.
MacCrea in the 1914 silent film The Christian, an early 8-reel production based on the novel by Hall Caine. According to at least one of her obituaries, the American critic Alexander Woollcott had considered Gallatin "the greatest American-born actress ever to grace the stage."