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Sidney Blackmer had planned to study law at the University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill, but football and amateur theatricals held more interest for him. Heading east to make his fortune as an actor, Blackmer accepted day work at various film studios in Fort Lee, New Jersey, reportedly appearing in the pioneering Pearl White serial "The Perils of Pauline" (1914). After making his Broadway bow in 1917, Blackmer served as a lieutenant in World War I. His starmaking stage role was the title character in 1921's The Mountain Man. Eager to have a go at all branches of entertainment, Blackmer sang on radio in the 1920s, and participated in the first experimental dramatic presentations of the Allen B. DuMont television series.
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Sidney Blackmer died in October 1973. Kaaren survived him and resided at 100 Central Park South. She and Blackmer had a second son, John. Kaaren died from pneumonia in Englewood, New Jersey, in 2004.
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Washington Alonzo Blackmer was born January 24, 1832 in Boston, MA and is the sixth generation to be born in Massachusetts since his ancestor William immigrated to Scituate in 1666. Mr. Blackmer enlisted on September 3, 1860 in Company B of the 1st Infantry Regiment of the Regular Army and served at Fort Cobb in the Indian Territory. During the Battle of Sedalia, MO he suffered from frostbite and required amputation of his toes. He was then transferred to New York City and served as an orderly to General Dix for the remainder of the Civil War. After his discharge he remained in NYC, married the former Letitia Templeton and worked as a clerk. His wife died in 1870, when their only child was but 3 years old and due to his disability he felt that it was best the child be brought up by his brother Greene.
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(Directed by Roman Polanski, screenplay by Roman Polanski based on the novel by Ira Levin; with Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney blackmer, Maurice Evans, Ralph Bellamy, Patsy Kelly) A loving, young New York couple are expecting their first child. Like most first-time mothers, Rosemary experiences confusion and fear. Her husband, an ambitious but unsuccessful actor, becomes involved with a witches' coven and makes a act with the devil that promises to send his career skyward. But the price . . . . [Letterboxed] (Funded by the Department of Comparative Literature) (Restricted to use on University of Washington campuses only)
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Arthur L. Blackmer founded the A. L. Blackmer Company, a glass cutting shop, in New Bedford, Massachusetts in 1894 after nine years in the employ of the Mt. Washington Glass Company. His company was incorporated in 1902 with Blackmer as treasurer and manager. He ... worked as a salesman for the company and as a representative of the National Association of Cut Glass Manufacturers. He would hire a regular designer but worked with the employee, teaching them the high standards he demanded in his products. At customers' requests, he tried to produce a cheaper ware that did not come up to the high standards he had set for his company. The corporation liquidated in 1916.
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Blackmer was born and raised in Salisbury, North Carolina. As a young man in his late teens, he went to New York City looking for acting work in the theater. While there, he took jobs at various film studios at the then motion picture capital, Fort Lee, New Jersey, including a bit part in the highly popular 1914 serial, The Perils of Pauline.
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