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May Irene McAvoy [citation needed] (September 8, 1899 – April 26, 1984) was an American actress who worked mainly during the silent-film era. Some of her major roles are Laura Pennington in The Enchanted Cottage , Esther in Ben-Hur , and Mary Dale in The Jazz Singer .
May McAvoy was a silent-screen star who co-starred in Hollywood's first talkie, The Jazz Singer, and England's first all-talking picture, The Terror. She retired in 1929, returned to films in the 1940s, and died in 1984.
May McAvoy was a silent-screen star who co-starred in Hollywood's first talkie, The Jazz Singer (1927). She bought out her Paramount contract, refused to bob her hair, and retired after marrying in 1929.
May McAvoy was one of the few actresses in Hollywood to have had a most interesting and varied career. Bucking the system, she had a successful career freelancing, working with nearly every studio and some of the best directors in Hollywood. May was born September 18, 1901 in New York at the family brownstone on 41st Street and Park Avenue.
Jul 26, 2013 · May McAvoy died in quiet retirement on April 26, 1984 from the side effects of a heart attack suffered the previous year. Petite at only four feet, eleven inches tall, weighing in at only eighty-nine pounds, the silent movie star May McAvoy never let her small stature interfere with her professional ambitions...
May McAvoy was an American actress who starred in silent films such as The Enchanted Cottage, Ben-Hur, and The Jazz Singer. Learn about her life, career, and roles from her Wikipedia entry on The Movie Database.
May McAvoy: star of ‘The Jazz Singer’ and ‘Ben Hur’. Frank McNally. Fri Oct 6 2017 - 00:01. Most people could still identify Al Jolson as the main star of The Jazz Singer, the film that ...
