Mary Beth Milford

Marian Elizabeth Cox, also known by her married names Mary E. Noyes and Mary E. Ottenheimer, was an American actress and dancer who was known on the stage and in film as Mary Beth Milford. Born in Texas and raised in California, she began her career as a child dancer in the mid 1910s in Los Angeles under the name Mary Beth Cox. In the late 1910s and early 1920s she performed on Broadway in The Greenwich Village Follies (1919), Sally (1920), and Music Box Revue (1921-1922). She appeared in films in uncredited roles as early as 1914, and had a career as a leading silent film actress from 1923 to 1927. After this she retired from performance. She later worked as a music arranger in Los Angeles. She should not be confused with the comedienne Mary Milford who performed in sound films and on the stage in the 1930s and 1940s.