Minnie Dupree

Born in San Francisco, California, Dupree made her acting debut in a touring company under John A. Stevens in 1887.^[11][12] The next year, she made a big impression in a small role in William Gillette's New York play Held by the Enemy.^[11][13] She received a number of important supporting roles, working with Richard Mansfield, Stuart Robson, and Nat Goodwin.^[13] She landed a starring role in 1900 in Women and Wine.^[11] Other leading roles followed, including in The Climbers (1901), A Rose o' Plymouth-town (1902), Heidelberg (1902), The Music Master (1904), and The Road to Yesterday (1906).^{[citation needed]}

Her later stage career was not successful, and exceptions were The Old Soak (1922), The Shame Woman (1923), Outward Bound (1924), playing Mrs. Midge, and as a replacement for the part of Martha Brewster in the hit Arsenic and Old Lace in 1941. Her last stage appearance was in Land's End (1946). She acted in two feature-length films: The Young in Heart (1938), with Janet Gaynor, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Paulette Goddard, Roland Young, and Billie Burke, and Anne of Windy Poplars (1940).^[14]

On November 8, 1896, it was announced that she would marry Major William H. Langley, a reputed millionaire, at the end of the season. At the time, she was described as a "handsome blonde, and the possessor of a magnificent head of curly hair."^[13]

Dupree died in New York City on May 23, 1947, at age 72.