Silent-screen star dies
NZPA-AP Los Angeles Mary MacLaren, a silentscreen star who played leading lady to Douglas Fairbanks sen. and Rudolph Valentino, has died at the age of 85.
Miss MacLaren died of cardiac arrest and severe pneumonia at West Hollywood Hospital, which said the actress had been admitted recently after complaining of heart problems. Miss MacLaren starred in
such films as “The Three Musketeers” in 1921 and “Shoes,” also during the silent-screen era.
Her first appearance as an entertainer was in 1915 in the Al Jolson stage show “Dancing Around.” In recent years, the actress used the name Mary Coleman, taken from her second husband, Robert Coleman. Her only survivors are nieces and nephews.
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