Phoebe Davies

Phoebe Davies was a Welshborn American stage actress who starred in over 4,000 performances of the Lottie Blair Parker play, Way Down East.

Phoebe Davies was born in Cardigan, Wales, the daughter of David and Annie Davies. Her father, who was originally drawn to California by the Gold Rush of 1849, returned with his family in the early 1870s to work for the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. Her father later joined the Lighthouse Service where he would rise to captain the lighthouse tender Madroo. While still in school Davies won an audition with David Belasco, then stage manager of the Baldwin Theatre Stock Company in San Francisco, that led to an offer to play a part in their next production. An illness prevented her from taking the role that only postponed her professional stage dbut a short while later as a member of the Oakland California Stock Company.

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