Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Carroll McComas (June 27, 1886 – November 9, 1962) was a stage, film and television actress. McComas began acting on the Broadway stage while still in her teens. Her greatest personal stage triumph was Miss Lulu Bett in the 1920-21 season.Her films roles were few and far between. She made her silent movie debut in 1916 in When Love Is King. Her second and last silent film came in 1920 in Jack Straw directed by William C. deMille and based on a 1908 stage play W. Somerset Maugham that starred John Drew, Jr. & Mary Boland. This movie still survives while McComas's 1916 film is lost. McComas interrupted her screen career after marrying Selskar M Gunn, Vice President of the Rockefeller Foundation in 1933. Gunn died in 1944 and McComas returned in 1953 to play a supporting role in Jamaica Run where she appeared as the mother of Wendell Corey and Arlene Dahl. McComas appeared in several pioneering television programs in the 1950s.. }
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- Carroll_McComas abstract "Carroll McComas (June 27, 1886 – November 9, 1962) was a stage, film and television actress. McComas began acting on the Broadway stage while still in her teens. Her greatest personal stage triumph was Miss Lulu Bett in the 1920-21 season.Her films roles were few and far between. She made her silent movie debut in 1916 in When Love Is King. Her second and last silent film came in 1920 in Jack Straw directed by William C. deMille and based on a 1908 stage play W. Somerset Maugham that starred John Drew, Jr. & Mary Boland. This movie still survives while McComas's 1916 film is lost. McComas interrupted her screen career after marrying Selskar M Gunn, Vice President of the Rockefeller Foundation in 1933. Gunn died in 1944 and McComas returned in 1953 to play a supporting role in Jamaica Run where she appeared as the mother of Wendell Corey and Arlene Dahl. McComas appeared in several pioneering television programs in the 1950s.".