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((short description|American actress))
((for|the sculptor|Mary Fuller (sculptor)))
((more citations needed|date=October 2010))
((Infobox person
| name                  = Mary Fuller
| image                 = Silent film actress Mary Fuller (SAYRE 277).jpg
| imagesize             = 
| caption               = Fuller c. 1914
| birthname             = Mary Claire Fuller
| birth_date             = ((birth date|1888|10|05|mf=y))
| birth_place            = [[Washington, D.C.]], U.S.
| death_date             = ((death date and age|1973|12|09|1888|10|05|mf=y))
| death_place            = Washington, D.C., U.S.
| othername             = Claire Fuller 
| occupation            = Actress, screenwriter
| yearsactive           = 1907&ndash;1917
))

'''Mary Claire Fuller''' (October 5, 1888 &ndash; December 9, 1973) was an American actress active in both stage and [[silent film]]s. She also was a screenwriter and had several films produced. An early major star, by 1917 she could no longer gain roles in film or on stage. A later effort to revive her career in Hollywood failed in the 1920s after talkies began to dominate film. After suffering a nervous breakdown, she was admitted to [[St. Elizabeths Hospital]] in Washington, DC in 1947 and lived there until her death.

==Early life==
Born in Washington, D.C. in 1888, to Nora Swing and attorney Miles Fuller, she spent her childhood on a farm. As a child, she was interested in music, writing and art. Her father died in 1902,<ref>((cite news |author=Staff writer |date=2 June 1902 |title=Death of Miles Fuller |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/145353774/ |newspaper=The Washington Star |location=Washington, D.C. |issue=15371 |page=3 |via=Newspapers.com))</ref> and by 1906, she was working in the theater under the name '''Claire Fuller'''. She worked briefly with the Lyceum Stock Company in Toledo, Ohio.

==Career==
[[File:The Masses, April 1916, Frank Walts.jpg|thumb|left|Cover of 1916 news magazine ''[[The Masses]]'', featuring profile of Fuller's character in the film ''The Heart of a Mermaid'' (1916); graphic by [[Frank Walts]]]]

Fuller began her acting career on stage. At age 18 she was working in live theatre. In 1907, she signed with the new [[Vitagraph Studios]] in Brooklyn, New York, where she made silent films such as the one-reel adaptation of ''[[Elektra (opera)|Elektra]]'' (released in April 1910).<ref>((cite news |last=Douglass |first=Harvey |title=Stock Movie Star of 1907 Got $20 Per Week |date=21 February 1933 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/59992328/ |newspaper=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle |volume=92 |issue=51 |page=15 |via=Newspapers.com))</ref>  Later Fuller joined the [[Edison Studios|Edison Film Company]] in 1910. That year, she appeared in the first film version of ''[[Frankenstein (1910 film)|Frankenstein]]'',<ref name="hcc">((cite book|last1=Roberts|first1=Rebecca Boggs|last2=Schmidt|first2=Sandra K.|title=Historic Congressional Cemetery|date=2012|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=9780738592244|page=73|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VRRI147PnMkC&q=%22Mary+Claire+Fuller%22&pg=PA73|accessdate=27 July 2017|language=en))</ref> based on [[Frankenstein|the Mary Shelley novel]].

Fuller became a major early silent movie star who, by 1914, rivaled [[Mary Pickford]] in popularity.<ref name="contest">(October 1914). [https://archive.org/stream/motionpicturemag08moti#page/n499/mode/1up/ The Great Artist Contest: First Honors Go to Earle Williams and Clara Kimball Young], ''[[Motion Picture Magazine]]'' (Fuller placed fifth in the 1914 ''Motion Picture Magazine'' popularity contest; Pickford was third)</ref> She appeared in a wide variety of roles, and starred in such melodramas as ''The Witch Girl'', ''A Daughter of the Nile'', ''[[Dolly of the Dailies]]'' (1914),<ref>Kehr, Dave. "[https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/07/movies/07silent.html Long-Lost Silent Films Return to America]", ''The New York Times'', June 6, 2010</ref> and ''[[Under Southern Skies (1915 film)|Under Southern Skies]]'', her first feature-length production. Also, Fuller wrote numerous screenplays, eight of which were produced as films from 1913 to 1915.

Fuller's career, however, was over by 1917. As quoted in Sally Dumaux's ''King Baggot: A Biography and Filmography of the First King of the Movies'', an August 18, 1917 article in ''Variety'' stated though Fuller was 
<blockquote>"one of the best drawing cards of the Universal for a long time ..her last few pictures were both financial and productional disappointments...and at the expiration of her contract she was allowed to depart...Miss Fuller has offered her services to several concerns along Broadway, but it is understood that they were turned down with the remark 'You are no longer film type.'"</blockquote> Following this episode, Fuller disappeared from public view, and her whereabouts remained a mystery for decades.

==Later life==
After the demise of the first stage of her film career, Fuller apparently suffered a nervous breakdown following a failed affair with a married opera singer. She retired from the film business, and went to live with her mother in Washington, D.C.<ref>((cite news |author=Staff writer |title=Star of Yesteryear Shine No Longer in Screenland; What Has Become of the Them |date=31 May 1925 |newspaper=The Lincoln Star |location=Lincoln, Nebraska |volume=23 |page=6 |via=Newspapers.com))</ref> In her early years, Fuller had talked about a constant feeling of loneliness that film stardom never filled. In 1926, she returned to Hollywood and unsuccessfully attempted to resume her screen career, which was more difficult since "talkies" had replaced silent films.

The death of her mother in 1940 brought a second nervous breakdown. After her sister cared for her, she arranged for Fuller to be admitted to Washington's [[St. Elizabeths Hospital]] on July 1, 1947. She lived there for 26 years, until her death. When Fuller died, the hospital was unable to locate any relatives, and she was buried in an unmarked grave in [[Congressional Cemetery]].<ref>http://stelizabethsdevelopment.com/docs/Full_History_of_St_Elizabeths.pdf ((Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022))</ref><ref name=hcc/> In the 2010s, a memorial bench was installed on the site of her grave, bearing a "Hollywood Star of Fame" and the inscription "A Personality of Eloquent Silence."<ref>((cite web |url=http://tmlarts.com/mary-fuller/ |title=Mary Fuller: actress, writer |date=5 October 2016 |last=Maxfield Lipp |first=Terri |website=TML Arts))</ref>

==Selected filmography==
*''[[Frankenstein (1910 film)|Frankenstein]]'' (1910)
*''[[Jean the Match-Maker]]'' (1910)
*''[[Turned to the Wall]]'' (1911)
*''The Modern Dianas'' (1911)
*''[[A Personal Affair]]'' (1912)
*''[[What Happened to Mary?|What Happened to Mary]]'' (1912)
*''[[Who Will Marry Mary?]]'' (1913)
*''[[Dolly of the Dailies]]'' (1914)
*''[[Under Southern Skies (1915 film)|Under Southern Skies]]'' (1915)
*''[[A Huntress of Men]]'' (1916)
*''[[The Long Trail (film)|The Long Trail]]'' (1917)
*''[[Public Be Damned]]'' (1917)

==Notes==
<references/>

==External links==
((Portal|Biography))
((commons category|Mary Fuller))
*((IMDb name|0298301))
*[https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/search/index?utf8=%E2%9C%93&keywords=mary+fuller Mary Fuller] portraits at the New York City Public Library, Billy Rose Collection
* ((Find a Grave|8744719))

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