Sylvia Breamer

Sylvia Breamer (9 June 1897 – 7 June 1943) was an Australian-born actress who performed in American silent motion pictures beginning in 1917.

Childhood and early career in Australia

She was born born Sylvia Poppy Bremer in the Sydney suburb of Double Bay, to Frederick Glasse Bremer and Jessie nee Platt. From a young age she trained for the stage with Walter Bentley and later at a Sydney Dramatic school run by Douglas Ancelon and Stella Chapman. She started to appear at recitations and on stage from the age of 13, soon after in productions for J. C. Williamson throughout Australia and New Zealand. By 1915 she had come to the notice of reviewers, particularly after she stood in for Muriel Starr in a lead role in the Sydney run of George Broadhurst's play, Bought and Paid for. By this time she was also famous enough to appear in newspaper advertisements for "Clement's Tonic." In 1914 Breamer married 40 year old E.W. Morrison, a US actor-director who regularly worked for J.C.Williamson. Like her Australian contemporary Enid Bennett, she determined to try her luck in the United States, and the couple departed for San Francisco in October 1916. The marriage appears to have been short lived however and Morrison returned to Australia in February 1917 without her.