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Edmund Fessenden Cobb, son of William Henry Cobb (1860-1909) and Eddie Ross (1862-1945), was the grandson of Edmund Gibson Ross (1826-1907, Governor of the Territory of New Mexico and the Senator from Kansas credited by many as having cast the deciding vote in the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson).
Edmund F. Cobb's parents ran a photography studio in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and some photographs of Edmund F. Cobb dressed as a cowboy (one dated December 1911), attired in a Civil War-era soldier's uniform, and standing next to a 1920s/1930s-style automobile are in the photo archive collection at the Museum of New Mexico, Palace of the Governors. Edmund Fessenden Cobb had two sisters, Susan Ross Cobb (1894-1987) and Daphne M. Cobb (1898-1928), and a brother, Wilfred B. Cobb (1901-1982).
A book by Kalton C. Lahue, Winners of the West: Sagebrush Heroes of the Silent Screen (1970), pages 53-58, includes a very brief overview of some of the companies, directors, movies/serials, and types of roles that shaped Edmund's career from 1910 to 1965.
Edmund F. Cobb married first wife, Helen Hayes, daughter of Charles Thomas Hayes and Martha Belle Marshall, on October 26, 1914, in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and their daughter, Eddie Marie Cobb (1915-1969), was born in Illinois.
In 1920, Edmund and Helen were living in Denver, Colorado, and listed their occupations as "Actor" and "Actress," in "Motion Pictures." Edmund Cobb and Helen Hayes appeared together in A Rodeo Mixup (1924) and Riders of the Range (1923). Edmund and Helen divorced when their daughter was about 10 or 12 years old, and both remarried.
Helen Marie Hayes married her second husband, Edwin Jackson (1898-1972), on June 14, 1930, in Los Angeles County, California, as his second wife. Helen died about 1932.
Edmund Fessenden Cobb married his second wife, Vivian Marie Winter, daughter of Marshall Banker Winter and Henrietta K. Hollenbeck, on July 24, 1934, in Los Angeles County, California. Vivian Marie Winter was born January 16, 1894, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and died in Woodland Hills, California, at the Motion Picture and Television Hospital, on July 26, 1974.
Edmund Fessenden Cobb died at the Motion Picture and Television Hospital, as well, just twenty days after Vivian, on August 15, 1974.
Note: Edmund Cobb's sister, Susan Ross (Cobb) Beyer, stated that "Eddie" was the correct spelling of their mother's name even though some had suggested "a more feminine version" (Source: The Albuquerque Tribune, issue of March 20, 1974, page B-1, columns 1-4, Accent on Lively Living: Past Comes Alive: Clarence Beyers reminisce--wonder where time went). Several years ago, a curator familiar with the family had indicated that Eddie Ross's name was actually "Edwinna," but the article referencing Eddie's daughter, Susan, seems to argue against that being the case.- Helen Marie Hayes, youngest child of Charles Thomas Hayes and Martha Belle Marshall, was born in Jun 1893, in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and had two siblings, Jesse Thomas Hayes (1875-1943) and Gertrude A. Hayes (1880-1950). The Hayes family had moved from Ohio to Kentucky, then to Tennessee.
Helen Marie Hayes married her first husband, 'Edmund Fessenden Cobb', October 26, 1914, in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and their daughter, Eddie Marie Cobb (1915-1969), was born in Illinois. In 1920, Edmund and Helen were living in Denver, Colorado, and listed their occupations as "Actor" and "Actress," in "Motion Pictures." Edmund Cobb and Helen Hayes appeared together in A Rodeo Mixup (1924) and Riders of the Range (1923). Edmund and Helen divorced when their daughter was about 10 or 12 years old, and both remarried.
Helen Marie Hayes married her second husband, Edwin Jackson (1898-1972), son of Merwin S. H. Jackson and Alice E. Roberts, on January 14, 1930, in Los Angeles County, California, as his second wife. [Note: Edwin Jackson's first wife, Genevieve B. Searle (1898-1995), had changed her name to Nagene Searle and embarked on a career as a script/scenario writer and script supervisor for movies.] Edmund Fessenden Cobb (1892-1974) married Vivian Marie Winter (1894-1974) as his second wife, on July 24, 1934, in Los Angeles County, California.
Helen Marie (Hayes)(Cobb) Jackson died about 1932, when her daughter was 17 years old. - Script and Continuity Department
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Genevieve B. Searle, was born June 23, 1898, in Chicago, Illinois, to Robinson Prudden Searle and Marie Antoinette Baxter. Genevieve had one brother, Edward Baxter Searle (1890-1952).
In 1900, the family was enumerated in Chicago, Illinois, and, by 1910, the family had moved to Webb County, Texas.
Giving their residences as Toledo, Ohio, Genevieve Searle and her first husband, Parke Meredith Detweiler (1892-1948), son of Charles Parke Detweiler and Leila Mariah Smith, married on July 25, 1914, in Monroe, Michigan, but later divorced.
Genevieve married her second husband, Edwin Jackson (1898-1972), son of Merwin S. H. Jackson and Anna E. Roberts, on December 17, 1923, in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, and they, too, divorced. [Note: Edwin Jackson's second wife, actress Helen Marie Hayes (1893-c.1932), was the first wife of actor Edmund Fessenden Cobb (1892-1974).]
In late December 1929 and in January 1930, multiple newspapers from California to New York carried nearly identical articles on Genevieve Searle, accompanied by her photograph. One of these articles appeared in the "Schenectady Gazette," 15 Jan 1930, 34:92, page 11, columns 1-3 ("News of Stageland and the Movies: Toledo Society Girl Wins Contract as a Writer of Scenarios"), touching on Genevieve Searle's family background and chronicling briefly how she had quit high school to write, worked as a stenographer, spent time on a ranch, and found work as a script clerk. The article went on to report that, in late 1929, after changing her name to "Nagene" on the advice of a numerologist, one of her stories was finally accepted by a magazine, at which point her career started to take off. A Hollywood director named James Cruze soon signed her to a lucrative contract as a scenario writer in December 1929.
Nagene Searle has multiple credits on IMDb as a script and scenario writer and as a script supervisor.
Nagene Searle died 31 May 1995, in Los Angeles County, California.