Overview
Frances E. Ne Moyer McCruden (September 28, 1896 – December 1981) was an actress who appeared in almost a hundred silent comedy films between 1913 and 1919. Her surname is sometimes found as NeMoyer, Ne-Moyer, or Nemoyer.
Early life and education
Ne Moyer was born in Westfield, New York, the daughter of Henry W. NeMoyer and Mary Jane Harrington NeMoyer. She attended Miss Nardin's Academy in Buffalo, New York. Her family was in show business and she performed with the Anson Gilmore Stock Company. She also played piano.
Career
Beginning in her teens, Ne Moyer appeared in films for Lubin Studio and the Kalem Company. She fell about 30 feet from a cliff for a scene in The Smuggler's Daughter (1914), barely escaping injury. She worked with noted vamp Theda Bara in Gold and the Woman (1916); later, Ne Moyer played a vamp character in The Law of Nature (1919), her last film. Her sister Marguerite Ne Moyer was also a film actress; they were both members of the Lubin company and appeared in several comedies together, including The Rest Cure (1913), She Must Be Ugly (1913), and His Sudden Recovery (1914). She also worked several times with Oliver Hardy.
Later years
Ne Moyer married investment executive Donald Breslin McCruden in 1919, in Manhattan, and made no further films. She was active in Waccabuc Country Club activities in the 1940s. Her husband died in 1961, and she died in 1981, in her eighties, in North Salem, New York.
Filmography
*The Female Detective (1913) *Pins Are Lucky (1914) as Ruth Singleton *Dobs at the Shore (1914) as Helen *Cannibal King (1915) as Grace *The Prize Baby (1915) as Florence *Shoddy the Tailor (1915) as Minnie *Her Choice (1915) *The Wayville Slumber Party (1915) *Mr. Stub's Pen (1915) *Gold and the Woman (1916) as Murray's daughter *The Law of Nature (1919) as Gene Moore *Lover's Signal *Won at High Tide as Sally What a Cinch (Lubin 1915).jpg At left in What a Cinch (1915), with Oliver Hardy Who Stole the Doggies (Lubin 1915).jpg At left in Who Stole the Doggies? (1915) A Lucky Strike (Lubin 1915) 02.jpg At left in A Lucky Strike (1915), with Oliver Hardy, Cora Walker and Mae Hotely The Dead Letter (Lubin 1915).jpg At right in The Dead Letter (1915)