Maude Fulton

Who was Maude Fulton?

Maude Fulton was a Broadway stage actress, playwright, composer, dancer, concert pianist, stage director, theater manager, and later a Hollywood screenwriter and actress.

Fulton was the daughter of newspaperman Titus Parker Fulton and Lulu Belle Couchman. She grew up in Eldorado, Kansas and Lexington, Missouri, and worked as a stenographer, telegraph operator, and short story writer before becoming an actress. She first appeared on the stage in amateur productions in Aberdeen, South Dakota in 1904.

On the opening night of Fulton's Broadway debut, in the cast of Mam'zelle Champagne, Harry K. Thaw murdered architect Stanford White over the affections of Evelyn Nesbit. In all Fulton acted or danced in seven Broadway shows. She also appeared in Vaudeville shows with William Rock, whom she met when he choreographed her on Broadway in The Orchid and appeared with her in Funabashi and The Candy Shop.

Fulton's greatest personal success was the 1917 play The Brat, which ran for 136 performances. Written by Fulton, it was produced by Oliver Morosco, starred Fulton and John Findlay, and featured Lewis Stone and Edmund Lowe.