Lucy Cotton (1891 – 12 December 1948), was an American actress. She appeared in 12 films between 1910 and 1921. In 1915 Miss Cotton appeared on stage in "Polygamy" at the Park Theatre in New York City.
She was born in Houston, Texas, USA and died in Miami Beach, Florida. She went to New York City in her teens and found her first role on Broadway in the chorus of The Quaker Girl. She then starred in the production of Up in Mabel's Room.
As a popular actress, her personal life was closely followed by the press. In 1924, she married Edward Russell Thomas, publisher of the New York Morning Telegraph. He died two years afterward, in July 1926, leaving a sizeable fortune of $27 million and a young daughter, Lucetta, behind. After that she had a series of marriages that did not last; Lytton Ament (1927–30), lawyer Charles Hann (divorced 1932), William M. Magraw (1932–1941), and Prince Vladimir Eristavi-Tchitcherine (married June 15, 1941, at a Russian Orthodox Church in New York City).,
Her daughter Lucetta Cotton Thomas (she changed her name to Mary Frances Thomas), decided to have her cremated in Miami, her ashes were sent to New York City where the funeral was held.
Famous quotes containing the words lucy and/or cotton:
“Lucy: I know I’ll enjoy Oklahoma City.
Jerry: But, of course. And if it should get dull, you can always go to Tulsa for the weekend.”
—Vina Delmar, U.S. novelist, playwright. Lucy (Irene Dunne)
“The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around the wheels of the state. Well the black American woman has never been able to feel that way. No black American man at any time in our history in the United States has been able to feel that he didn’t need that black woman right against him, shoulder to shoulder—in that cotton field, on the auction block, in the ghetto, wherever.”
—Maya Angelou (b. 1928)