Constance Alice Talmadge

 Constance Alice Talmadge (April 19, 1898 – November 23, 1973)

She was the sister of actresses Norma and Natalie Talmadge. Talmadge began making films in 1914, in a Vitagraph comedy short, In Bridal Attire (1914). Her first major role was as the Mountain Girl and Marguerite de Valois in D.W. Griffith's Intolerance (1916). So popular was Talmadge's portrayal of the tomboyish Mountain Girl, Griffith released in 1919 the Babylonian sequence from Intolerance as a new, separate film called The Fall of Babylon. He re-filmed her death scene to allow for a happy ending. Talmadge, along with her sisters, was heavily billed during her early career. However, with the advent of talkies in 1929, Talmadge left Hollywood. Her sister Norma did make a handful of appearances in talking films, but for the most part the three sisters retired all together, investing in real estate and other business ventures. Only a few of her films survive today. She was married four times, and had no children. Like her sisters Norma and Natalie, Talmadge succumbed to substance abuse and alcoholism later in life. She died of pneumonia at age 75 on November 23, 1973, and is interred with her sisters at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.