Audrey Maple | |
|---|---|
 Maple c.1917 | |
| Born | Elsie H. Schroeder 1899 Trenton, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Died | April 18, 1971 (aged 71–72) New York City, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1908–1940 |
| Spouse |
Ernest A. Zadig (m. 1940) |
Audrey Maple (born Elsie H. Schroeder; 1899 – April 18, 1971) was an American actress, singer, and vaudeville performer.
Audrey Maple was born Elsie H. Schroeder in Trenton, New Jersey. Her father was a musician.[1]
Audrey Maple performed in vaudeville in a novelty act called Pianophiends.[2] In the operetta The Love Waltz (1908-1909), she was half of a highly publicized "eight-minute kiss" during a dance scene.[3][4]
She appeared in Broadway productions, mostly musical comedies, including The Arcadians (1910), The Firefly (1912-1913), Molly O (1916),[5] Katinka (1916),[6] Good Night, Paul (1917),[7] Her Regiment by Victor Herbert (1917),[8][9] Monte Cristo Jr. (1919), Tangerine (1921-1922), Princess April (1924), Naughty Riquette (1926), My Princess (1927), Sunny Days (1928), Angela (1928-1929), and The Street Singer (1929-1930).[10]
Maple appeared in two films, The Plumbers are Coming (1929) and Enlighten Thy Daughter (1934).
Maple's personal life involved enough gossip, scandal, and legal entanglements to prompt commentary in newspapers: "What again! It's perfectly terrible the way wives pick on poor little Audrey Maple, the pretty musical comedy star, and try to make out that she is a naughty girl."[11][12][13] In 1928 she survived a car accident in Chicago that killed one of her co-stars, dancer Rosalie Claire.[14]
In 1940, Audrey Maple married engineer and inventor Ernest A. Zadig,[15] and retired from the stage. She died in New York in 1971, aged 72 years.[16]
