Background
She was the daughter of Judge Creative Commons McComas and wife Ellen Moore.
She was the daughter of Judge Creative Commons McComas and wife Ellen Moore.
McComas began acting on the Broadway stage while still in her teens. Her greatest personal stage triumph was Mission Lulu Bett in the 1920-1921 season. Her films roles were few and far between.
She made her silent movie debut in 1916 in When Love Is King, a still extant film.
Her second and last silent film came in 1920 in Jack Straw directed by William C. deMille and based on a 1908 stage play West. Somerset Maugham that starred John Drew, Junior. & Mary Boland. This movie still survives.
McComas interrupted her screen career after marrying Selskar M Gunn, Vice President of the Rockefeller Foundation in 1933. Gunn died in 1944 and McComas returned in 1953 to play a supporting role in Jamaica Run where she appeared as the mother of Wendell Corey and Arlene Dahl.
McComas appeared in several pioneering television programs in the 1950s.