Sybil Carmen

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]

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

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]

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• Sybil Carmen at IMDb
• Sybil Carmen at the Internet Broadway Database
• Publicity photographs of Sybil Carmen in the collection of the Museum of the City of New York.