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GOODWIN, NATHANIEL CARL (1857– )

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GOODWIN, NATHANIEL CARL (1857– ) , See also:American actor, was See also:born in See also:Boston on the 25th of See also:July 1857. While clerk in a large See also:shop he studied for the See also:stage, and made his first See also:appearance in 1893 in Boston in See also:Stuart See also:Robson's See also:company as the newsboy in See also:Joseph See also:Bradford's See also:Law. He made an immediate success by his imitations of popular actors. A See also:hit in the See also:burlesque See also:Black-eyed Susan led to his taking See also:part in See also:Rice and Goodwin's Evangeline company. It was at this See also:time that he married Eliza Weathersby (d. 1887), an See also:English actress with whom he played in B. E. Woollf's Hobbies. It was not until 1889, however, that Nat Goodwin's See also:talent as a comedian of the "legitimate" type began to be recognized. From that time he appeared in a number of plays designed to display his drily humorous method, such as See also:Brander See also:Matthews' and See also:George H. Jessop's A See also:Gold Mine, See also:Henry See also:Guy See also:Carleton's A Gilded See also:Fool and Ambition, See also:Clyde See also:Fitch's Nathan See also:Hale, H. V.

Esmond's When we were Twenty-one, &c. Till 1903 he was associated in his performanceswith his third wife, the actress Max'See also:

ine See also:Elliott (b. 1873), whom he married in 1898; this See also:marriage was dissolved in 1908.

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