Louisa Lane Drew (January 10, 1820 – August 31, 1897) was an English-born American actress and theatre owner and an ancestor of the Barrymore acting family.[1] Professionally, she was often known as Mrs. John Drew.
Mrs. John Drew as Mrs. Malaprop in an all-star Broadway revival of The Rivals (1895)
Louisa Lane was born in London, England, the daughter of Eliza Trentner (1796–1887), a singer and actress, and Thomas Frederick Lane (1796–1825), an actor and theatre manager.[2][3][4][5] Louisa and her mother came to America when she was six years old. She proved to be a child prodigy playing five different adult roles within one play at the age of eight in 1828. As a young woman and strolling player, her theatrical travels took her, her mother and half sisters as far away as Jamaica, by sailing ship, where one of her step fathers died. She returned to the United States in 1847 to support Junius Brutus Booth.[2] She appeared in several plays with both him and his son, John Wilkes Booth, who would later assassinateU.S.PresidentAbraham Lincoln.[6]
In May 1895, the aged Mrs Drew appeared in an all-star revival of Sheridan'sThe Rivals.[10][11] In 1897, an ailing Louisa Drew spent her last summer at her annual Larchmont, New York, retreat with her grandsons Lionel and John Barrymore.
^Bank, Rosemarie K. (2000). "Drew, Louisa Lane (10 January 1820–31 August 1897), actress and theater manager". American National Biography. doi:10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1800328. ISBN978-0-19-860669-7. Retrieved July 16, 2020.
^Moses, Montrose J. (1906). Famous Actor-Families in America. p. 169.
^Hoffman, Carol Stein (2001). The Barrymores: Hollywood's First Family. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN9780813122137.
^"BarrymoreFamily.com". www.barrymorefamily.com. Archived from the original on July 18, 2012. Retrieved March 18, 2020.
^The Unrecognized Drew by Talia Myers Retrieved September 9, 2014
^Georgie Drew Mendum; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
^Hopper, DeWolf (1927). Once a Clown, Always a Clown: Reminiscences of DeWolf Hopper. Boston: Little Brown and Company. pp. 119–124.
^Brown, Thomas Allston (1903). A History of the New York Stage from the First Performance in 1732 to 1901. Vol. 3. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company. pp. 69–70.
^James, Edward T. (1971). Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary, Volume 1. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. pp. 522–523. ISBN0-674-62734-2. Retrieved January 19, 2022.
^America's Longest Run: A History of the Walnut Street Theatre by Andrew Davis c.2010 ..Retrieved July 2, 2015
^America's Longest Rum:... c.2010 author Andrew Davis ISBN9780271035789 ..Retrieved July 2, 2015
Drew, Louisa Lane (1899). Autobiographical sketch of Mrs. John Drew. New York, New York: C. Scribner's Sons.
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