Frances E. Ne Moyer McCruden (September 28, 1896 – December 1981)Birth and death dates from the U.S. Social Security Death Index, via Ancestry. Her gravestone has 1894 as her birth year. was an actress who appeared in almost a hundred silent comedy films between 1913 and 1919. Her surname is sometimes found as NeMoyer, Ne-Moyer, or Nemoyer.
Early life and education Ne Moyer was born in Westfield, New York, the daughter of Henry W. NeMoyer and Mary Jane Harrington NeMoyer. She attended Miss Nardin's Academy in Buffalo, New York. Her family was in show business and she performed with the Anson Gilmore Stock Company. She also played piano.
Career Beginning in her teens, Ne Moyer appeared in films for Lubin Studio and the Kalem Company. A reporter noted her among performers supporting Mae Hotely at Lubin, describing her as "the girl with the beautiful eyes". She fell about 30 feet from a cliff for a scene in The Smuggler's Daughter (1914), barely escaping injury. She worked with noted vamp Theda Bara in Gold and the Woman (1916); later, Ne Moyer played a vamp character in The Law of Nature (1919), her last film.
Her sister Marguerite Ne Moyer was also a film actress; they were both members of the Lubin company working with director Arthur Hotaling, and appeared in several comedies together, including The Rest Cure (1913), She Must Be Ugly (1913), All Account of Daisy (1914), and His Sudden Recovery (1914). She also worked several times with Oliver Hardy.
Later years Ne Moyer married investment executive Donald Breslin McCruden in 1919, in Manhattan, and made no further films. She was active in Waccabuc Country Club activities in the 1940s. Her husband died in 1961, and she died in 1981, in her eighties, in North Salem, New York.
Filmography The Female Detective (1913) The Rest Cure (1913) She Must Be Ugly (1913) Training a Tightwad (1913) The Particular Cowboys (1913) as Muriel, the cook Summer Love (1914) A Tango Tragedy (1914) His Sudden Recovery (1914) as the Jones's daughter A Tango Tragedy (1914) as Nora Muldoon Outwitting Dad (1914) as Lena Gross Pins Are Lucky (1914) as Ruth Singleton Dobs at the Shore (1914) as Helen Cannibal King (1915) as Grace The Prize Baby (1915) as Florence Shoddy the Tailor (1915) as Minnie The Smuggler's Daughter (1914), in the title role Safety Worst (1915) as Jane Hudson Mixed Flats (1915) as Mrs. Robbins Percival's Awakening (1915) Her Choice (1915) The Wayville Slumber Party (1915) Mr. Stub's Pen (1915) Gus and the Anarchists (1915) Cupid's Target (1915) as Lucy The Servant Girl's Legacy (1914) as Bess What a Cinch (1915) as Molly Mason A Lucky Strike (1915) as Elinor, Nelle Crehan's niece The Dead Letter (1915) as Lena Pula Who Stole the Doggies? (1915) as Maggie, the Cook Gold and the Woman (1916) as Murray's daughter Peaches and Ponies (1916) The Law of Nature (1919) as Gene Moore Lover's Signal Won at High Tide as Sally
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