May McAvoy (1899 - 1984)

American actress who worked mainly during the silent-film era.

* September 8, 1899 New York, New York
 April 26, 1984 Los Angeles, California



Vintage magazines

Mon Ciné, nr. 11, 4 May 1922
Mon Ciné, nr. 30, 14 September 1922
Mon Ciné, nr. 39, 16 November 1922

Picture Play Magazine, January 1922
Picture Play Magazine, February 1923
Photoplay, January 1928

Photoplay, March 1928
Photoplay, March 1928
Photoplay, March 1928

Photoplay, May 1928
Photoplay, June 1928
Photoplay, June 1928

Photoplay, June 1928
Photoplay, May 1929
Photoplay, November 1929

Photoplay, June 1930
Photoplay, June 1930
Photoplay, August 1932

Photoplay, January 1936
Photoplay, March 1936

Books with substantial mentioning of May McAvoy

Edward Wagenknecht Stars of the Silents Edward Wagenknecht
Stars of the Silents
Metuchen, N.J., & London, 1987

Calvin Thomas Beck with Robert Stewart Associate Editor
Scream Queens
New York - London, 1978

DeWitt Bodeen
More from Hollywood, The Careers of 15 Great American Stars
South Brunswick and New York - London, 1977

Books with an entry on May McAvoy

Denise Lowe An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Women in Early American Films, 1895 - 1930 Denise Lowe
An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Women in Early American Films, 1895 - 1930
New York, London, Oxford, 2005

Roy Liebman Silent Film Performers Roy Liebman
Silent Film Performers, An Annotated Bibliography of Published, Unpublished and Archival Sources for over 350 Actors and Actresses
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 1996

Frank N. Magill (ed.)
Magill's Cinema Annual 1985, A Survey of 1984 Films
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1985
p. 681 info

Charles Donald Fox Mirrors of Hollywood Charles Donald Fox
Mirrors of Hollywood, with brief biographies of favorite film folk
New York, 1925

Books with photograph(s) of May McAvoy

John Richard Finch and Paul Elby Close-Ups John Richard Finch and Paul Elby
Close-Ups, From the Golden Age of the Silent Cinema
South Brunswick and New York - London, 1978