Sybil Carmen

Sybil Carmen Attkinsson (1891 — April 15, 1929) was an American actress, dancer, and Ziegfeld girl.

Sybil Carmen
Sybil Carmen, from a 1916 publication
Born1891
Parkersburg, West Virginia, U.S.
DiedApril 15, 1929 (aged 37–38)
Paris, French Third Republic
OccupationActress, dancer, Ziegfeld girl
Spouse(s)Maurice Sydney Revnes (m.1919)
Children2

Early life

Sybil Carmen Attkinsson was born in 1891 in Parkersburg, West Virginia,[1] and was raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Agnes G. Attkinsson.[2] She moved to New York as a young woman to pursue a career as a dancer.[3]

Career
Sybil Carmen in her "balloon girl" costume for the Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic, from a 1916 publication.

Carmen appeared on Broadway in two productions by Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.. She was a principal performer in the 1915 Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic as a "balloon girl", sharing the bill with The Dolly Sisters, Will Rogers, Eddie Cantor, and Olive Thomas; and she returned as a principal player in the Ziegfeld Girls of 1920, on a bill with Fanny Brice, W. C. Fields, and Lillian Lorraine.[4][5][6] In 1918 she was in a similar rooftop revue show at the Century Grove.[7] She acted in two silent films, A Romance of the Underworld (1918)[8] and Experience (1921)[9], both of which are now lost.

Poster for Romance of the Underworld (1918); Sybil Carmen's photograph is in the lower left star

Personal life

Sybil Carmen married writer and film executive Maurice Sydney Revnes in 1919;[10] in 1926 they moved to France where he represented Pathé Studios. They had two children, a son Richard (1923–1990) and a daughter Carmen (born 1921).[11][12] She died suddenly in Paris in 1929, from a heart attack or pneumonia.[2][13]

References
  1. "Mrs. Maurice Revnes" Pittsburgh Press (April 18, 1929): 6. via Newspapers.com
  2. "Sybil Carmen Dies in Paris" Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (April 18, 1929): 2. via Newspapers.com
  3. Burns Mantle, "What's What in the Theatre" Green Book Magazine (August 1917): 218.
  4. Cynthia Brideson, Sara Brideson, Ziegfeld and His Follies: A Biography of Broadway's Greatest Producer (University Press of Kentucky 2015): 446-447. ISBN 9780813160900
  5. "The Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic" MCNY Blog: New York Stories (July 1, 2014).
  6. Burns Mantle, ed., The Best Plays of 1919-1920: And the Year Book of the Drama in America (Small, Maynard 1920): 436.
  7. "Century Roof Girls at Upton Cheer 'Yip, Yip, Yaphank' Stars" The Evening World (August 2, 1918): 3. via Newspapers.com
  8. "Keeney Ready for Next Picture" Dramatic Mirror (March 23, 1918): 53.
  9. "Movies and Movie People" Baltimore Sun (September 6, 1921): 11. via Newspapers.com
  10. "Sybil Carmen Married Man Once Rejected" Pittsburgh Press (September 13, 1919): 3. via Newspapers.com
  11. "Carmen A. Revnes Lt. Simon Berlin Wed at Camp Polk" The Times (May 30, 1943): 32. via Newspapers.com
  12. "RCL President Revnes Dies" Cruise Travel (September/October 1990): 45.
  13. "Sybil Carmen Dead; Former 'Follies' Actress Stricken Suddenly in Paris" New York Times (April 17, 1929): 22.
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