(1887-1979)
Like her sister Edith, Mabel Taliaferro began her long acting career as a toddler, playing in a stock production of Blue Jeans at the age of two. She made her New York debut in Israel Zangwill's Children of the Ghetto (1899), after which she appeared in Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1904), You Never Can Tell (1905), and Pippa Passes (1906) before scoring a notable success in the title role of Polly of the Circus (1907). Later credits include Springtime (1909), The Call of the Cricket (1910), Young Wisdom (1914), Luck in Pawn (1919), The Piper (1920), Back Fire (1932), George Washington Slept Here* (1940), and Bloomer Girl (1944), among others.
See also child performers.
The Historical Dictionary of the American Theater. James Fisher.