Edgena De Lespine

Edgena Brown was born in Galveston, Texas. Her parents were John Stoddart Brown (1848–1912) and Helen A. Delespine Brown (1849–1910).[1] Her father owned a hardware store.[2]

De Lespine was an actress in plays and in vaudeville,[3] and had several starring roles in silent films. She starred in the 1913 play London Assurance,[4] and in The Good Within.[5] She worked at Reliance[6] until she moved to Biograph in 1914.[7] She was considered a beauty.[3] She made several films with child actress Runa Hodges, including Runa Plays Cupid, The Dream Home, and The House of Pretense.[8]

Beyond acting, De Lespine advertised her willingness to do "New York shopping" for Texas women, without charge.[9]

De Lespine married Eugene W. Tips (born 1874) in 1900.[2] In 1915, she married her second husband, stock broker Henry Glover Hemming (1872–1921). She died on January 30, 1920.[10] Her grave is in Woodlawn Cemetery in New York. Her second husband was killed the following year, after he married her twice-divorced sister, Helen Henderson.[11][12][13]

• The Old Mam'selle's Secret (1912)
• Votes for Women (1912), movie about suffrage[14]
• The Good Within (1913)[15]
• Twickenham Ferry (1913)[16][17]
• Runa Plays Cupid (1913)[18]
• Half a Chance (1913)[19]
• Eternal Sacrifice[15]
• The Social Secretary (1913)[20]
• The Little Pirate (1913)
• The Bawlerout (1913)[21]
• The Dream Home (1913)[22]
• Rowdy the Dog
• Dick's Turning (1913)[23]
• Ashes (1913 film), story by Marion Brooks[24][25]
• London Assurance (1913 film) (1913), an adaptation of the play London Assurance[26]
• A Night of Terror (1913)
• The Turning Point based on the play by Preston Gibson[6][27]
• The Higher Justice by Forrest Halsey (1913)[28]
• The Tangled Web (film) (1913)[29]
• The House of Pretense (1913)[30]

• Edgena De Lespine at IMDb