Myrtle Vane(1867-1932)
- Actress
Lena Davis was born in East Whiteland, Pennsylvania. She was the only
child of Thomas and Margaret (Tucker) Davis. Her mother later
married Thomas Jefferson Newbury in December 1873 and she lived with
them in Iowa in Keokuk (1875) Levy (1880) and Sioux City (1885). Her
son, actor Irving Bacon, was born in St. Joseph, Missouri in September
1893. She appeared as Mrs.
O'Rourke (1923) in "April Showers," Aunt Charlotte (1923) in "Are You a
Failure?" Mrs. Martin (1924) in "The Mirage," Aunt Harriett Kennedy
(1924) in "K-The Unknown," Elvira Carney (1924) in "A Girl of the
Limberlost," Mrs. Van Gore (1924) in "A White Sin," and a credited
actor in "A Finished Actor," in 1927. She was living with her son and
his two small children in 1930 following the death of Irving's wife,
Freda in 1928. Myrtle Vane/Lena Davis died of a paralytic stroke on
February 17, 1932.