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Edward was born on December 6, 1859 at 79 Bienville St. , New Orleans, Louisiana to Edward Askew Sothern and Frances (Stewart) Sothern, during one of his father's American tours.
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Edward Hugh Sothern
Edit ProfileEducation
He was educated in England and intended to become a painter, but the inherited call of the stage was too strong.
Career
In 1879 Sothern joined his father in America, and on September 8, at the Park Theatre, New York, he made an unfortunate debut as a cabman in the farce, Brother Sam, produced by the elder Sothern, in which, overcome by stage fright, he was unable to utter a sound.
After failing dismally in his attempt to star in Whose are They? in 1884, he joined the company of Helen Dauvray at the Lyceum Theatre, New York, and there was discovered by Daniel Frohman, who took over the Lyceum in 1886 and made Sothern a leading man in his stock company.
On September 17, 1900, at the Garden Theatre, New York, he acted Hamlet for the first time, and thereafter kept it in his repertoire, alternating it during the next three or four years with such plays as Richard Lovelace, If I Were King, with which he opened the new Lyceum Theatre, and The Proud Prince.
From 1904 to 1907 under the management of Charles Frohman, he formed an alliance with Julia Marlowe to act chiefly in Shakespeare. In the next two years Sothern alone produced Laurence Irving's The Fool Hath Said, Richelieu, Don Quixote, and a revival of his father's famous impersonation of Dundreary in Our American Cousin.
On November 8, 1909, Miss Marlowe rejoined him, acting Cleopatra to his Antony, to open the New Theatre, New York. They then resumed their tours, acting some of the more familiar plays of Shakespeare, Jeanne d'Arc, Sudermann's John the Baptist, Hauptmann's The Sunken Bell, and occasionally When Knighthood Was in Flower. The Shakespearian productions, carefully and elaborately staged, were everywhere enormously popular, and during that decade in America were perhaps the leading attraction in the theatres.
In 1916 ill health forced her to retire, and Sothern, after an appearance in The Two Virtues, devoted the next years to war work, appearing as an entertainer in soldiers' camps. He appeared from time to time, however, either in plays or public readings, his last theatrical appearance in New York being at the Lyceum Theatre, January 29, 1927, with Haidee Wright, in What Never Dies. His readings and lectures, given widely throughout the country, continued for several years more.
In his later years, with his wife, he spent his summers in England and his winters, when he was not in America, at Luxor on the Nile.
He died in New York City of pneumonia.
Achievements
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Edward Hugh Sothern was not by natural endowment a tragic actor, but he was led by ambition and by devotion to the ideal of a classic repertoire to act Hamlet, Shylock, Macbeth and Antony and by dint of hard work and keen, sensitive intelligence he gave in nearly all cases an excellent account of himself. His best Shakespearian role, however, was probably Malvolio, where with no loss of comic effect he presented a pathetic picture of an inherent gentleman overcome by vanity. His autobiography, The Melancholy Tale of "Me" (1916), is one of the most delightful of theatrical reminiscences.
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The Melancholy Tale of "me"; My Remembrances
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My Remembrances; the Melancholy Tale of "me"
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Hamlet: A Tragedy
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The melancholy tale of "me" : my remembrances
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Captain Lettarblair: A Comedy in Three Acts
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My Remembrances: The Melancholy Tale of Me
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Hamlet: A Tragedy
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Captain Lettarblair: A Comedy In Three Acts Written For E.h. Sothern
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Whose Are They? Three Bold Acts (Classic Reprint)
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The Melancholy Tale of "me"; My Remembrances
Personality
He was a small man. He had a sensitive, handsome face, extremely fine eyes, much bodily grace and expressive body control, quickness and litheness of movement, and a well-trained voice.
Connections
In 1896, Sothern married actress Virginia Harned.
On August 17, 1911, in London, having been divorced by his first wife, Sothern married Julia Marlow (born Sarah Frances Frost), who had been married previously to Robert Taber. He was survived by his wife.
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Nationality
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