Mammy Lou

Mammy Lou (born c. 1804 - died after 1918) was apparently the oldest person to appear in a motion picture.

Life

In 1918, she appeared in the silent film The Glorious Adventure, directed by Hobart Henley, playing the part of The Mansion's Servant, the mansion being the Hermitage Plantation in Savannah, Georgia. Mammy Lou claimed she was 114 years of age, and had been a slave in Savannah until Abraham Lincoln abolished slavery.

If this legend is true, then Mammy Lou was the oldest person to appear in a feature film up until that time. This claim is unauthenticated though, and if proven, this would mean that Mammy Lou was around 60 years of age at the time she received her freedom from slavery.

Bibliography

• Patrick Robinson, Film Facts, 1st edition (London: Aurum Press Ltd., 2001)

See also

• Longevity claims

External links

• Mammy Lou at the Internet Movie Database

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Name	Lou, Mammy
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Short description	American actor
Date of birth	1804
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