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She graduated to playing character and mother types.
She graduated to playing character and mother types.
She appeared in 350 films between 1908 and 1945. Still something of a youthful beauty when she started in early silent films she appeared in numerous short, early feature films. She appeared in Douglas Fairbanks"s 1920 The Mark of Zorro.
McDowell costarred in two of the biggest films of the silent era, The Big Parade and Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, in which she played mothers both times.
McDowell was born in New York, New York and died in Hollywood, California, aged 88. The happy couple appeared in numerous silent films together including The Mark of Zorro.
They had two sons, Robert and Eugene.