From Wikipedia
Priscilla Bonner (February 17, 1899 – February 21, 1996) was
an American silent film actress.
Born in Washington, D.C., Bonner made her film debut
opposite Charles Ray in the 1920 film Homer Comes Home, after being signed to
MGM that same year. She went on to co-star with Jack Pickford in The Man Who
Had Everything (1920), Lon Chaney, Sr. in Shadows (1922), Colleen Moore in
April Showers, and comedian Harry Langdon in The Strong Man. In 1925 she
successfully sued Warner Bros. and won a substantial cash settlement when she
was originally chosen and then dropped as leading lady from John Barrymore's
The Sea Beast in favor of Barrymore's new real life love interest Dolores
Costello.
That same year she starred in the controversial independent
film The Red Kimona produced and directed by Dorothy Davenport, the widow of
Wallace Reid. In 1927, Bonner was loaned to Paramount Pictures to co-star in
the box office hit It, starring Clara
Bow.
In 1928, Bonner married Dr. E. Bertrand Woolfan and retired
from films the following year. On February 21, 1996, Bonner died at the age of
97.
