May Milloy (January 25, 1875 – November 18, 1967) was an American actress on Broadway, in
vaudeville, and in several films.
Early life
May Milloy is usually described as
Dublin-born, however some reviews mentioned
Montreal as her home.[1] She had acted in Montreal by 1896, before moving to the United States.[2] Her brother Richard Milloy was also an actor and vaudeville performer,[3] and he was also described as being from Montreal.[4]
Career
Milloy was in two Broadway shows in 1912, The Fatted Calf and The Point of View.[5] Other shows she acted in included My Geraldine (1896, in Montreal),[2]Mr. Hopkinson (1909 tour, including Seattle and San Francisco)[6][7] and More Sinned Against Than Usual (1912-1913),[8][9] "a high-class travesty sketch".[10] She performed in vaudeville in an all-woman show called Beauty is Only Skin Deep (1914-1915).[11] In 1916, she was still in vaudeville, in an act with her husband, Texas actor Ford West.[12]
Milloy's advice to women, as recorded in a 1914 interview, was this: "Women should read, study, make an effort to have their mental equipment modern and useful. It can only be done by work; but if women worked as hard at their minds as they do at their complexions and their clothes, the world would be a more amusing and satisfactory place in which to live."[11]