Vedah Bertram(1891-1912)
- Actress
Vedah Bertram born Adele Buck
in Massachusetts into a prominent Boston family, her father Jerome
Buck, a wealthy newspaper publisher. Film cowboy star G.M. Anderson saw
her photograph in a Boston society column, he decided to contact her
and asked her to be his co-star in his Broncho Billy western series,
despite opposition by her family she did so, adopting the name Vedah
Bertram in order to spare her family's feelings, she became an
immediate success in the films as Broncho Billy's girl friend, making
her debut in 'The Ranch Girl's Mistake' in 1912, she became hughly
popular with cinema audience, starring in around 24 short westerns
until her last movie 'Broncho Billy Outwitted', sadly in August 1912,
she was admitted into an Oakland hospital with stomach pains and died
of acute appendicitis, she was only 20 years old. One of the first film
actresses to be mourned by the public, her death proved doubly shocking
to her parents who reputedly had remained unaware of her film career.