Sybil Carmen

Sybil Carmen Attkinsson (1891 — April 15, 1929) was an American actress, dancer, and Ziegfeld girl.

Sybil Carmen
Sybil Carmen, from a 1916 publication
Born1891
Parkersburg, West Virginia, U.S.
DiedApril 15, 1929 (aged 37–38)
Paris, French Third Republic
OccupationActress, dancer, Ziegfeld girl
Spouse(s)
Maurice Sydney Revnes
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(m. 1919)​
Children2

Early life

Sybil Carmen Attkinsson was born in 1891 in Parkersburg, West Virginia,[1] and was raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Agnes G. Attkinsson.[2] She moved to New York as a young woman to pursue a career as a dancer.[3]

Career
Sybil Carmen in her "balloon girl" costume for the Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic, from a 1916 publication.

Carmen appeared on Broadway in two productions by Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.. She was a principal performer in the 1915 Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic as a "balloon girl", sharing the bill with The Dolly Sisters, Will Rogers, Eddie Cantor, and Olive Thomas; and she returned as a principal player in the Ziegfeld Girls of 1920, on a bill with Fanny Brice, W. C. Fields, and Lillian Lorraine.[4][5][6] In 1918 she was in a similar rooftop revue show at the Century Grove.[7] She acted in two silent films, A Romance of the Underworld (1918)[8] and Experience (1921),[9] both of which are now lost.

Poster for Romance of the Underworld (1918); Sybil Carmen's photograph is in the lower left star

Personal life

Sybil Carmen married writer and film executive Maurice Sydney Revnes in 1919;[10] in 1926 they moved to France where he represented Pathé Studios. They had two children, a son Richard (1923–1990) and a daughter Carmen (born 1921).[11][12] She died suddenly in Paris in 1929, from a heart attack or pneumonia.[2][13]

References
  1. "Mrs. Maurice Revnes" Pittsburgh Press (April 18, 1929): 6. via Newspapers.com
  2. "Sybil Carmen Dies in Paris" Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (April 18, 1929): 2. via Newspapers.com
  3. Burns Mantle, "What's What in the Theatre" Green Book Magazine (August 1917): 218.
  4. Cynthia Brideson, Sara Brideson, Ziegfeld and His Follies: A Biography of Broadway's Greatest Producer (University Press of Kentucky 2015): 446-447. ISBN 9780813160900
  5. "The Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic" MCNY Blog: New York Stories (July 1, 2014).
  6. Burns Mantle, ed., The Best Plays of 1919-1920: And the Year Book of the Drama in America (Small, Maynard 1920): 436.
  7. "Century Roof Girls at Upton Cheer 'Yip, Yip, Yaphank' Stars" The Evening World (August 2, 1918): 3. via Newspapers.com
  8. "Keeney Ready for Next Picture" Dramatic Mirror (March 23, 1918): 53.
  9. "Movies and Movie People" Baltimore Sun (September 6, 1921): 11. via Newspapers.com
  10. "Sybil Carmen Married Man Once Rejected" Pittsburgh Press (September 13, 1919): 3. via Newspapers.com
  11. "Carmen A. Revnes Lt. Simon Berlin Wed at Camp Polk" The Times (May 30, 1943): 32. via Newspapers.com
  12. "RCL President Revnes Dies" Cruise Travel (September/October 1990): 45.
  13. "Sybil Carmen Dead; Former 'Follies' Actress Stricken Suddenly in Paris" New York Times (April 17, 1929): 22.
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