Sybil Carmen


Sybil Carmen Attkinsson was an American actress, dancer, and Ziegfeld girl.

Early life

Sybil Carmen Attkinsson was born in 1891 in Parkersburg, West Virginia, and was raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Agnes G. Attkinsson. She moved to New York as a young woman to pursue a career as a dancer.

Career

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. In 1918 she was in a similar rooftop revue show at the Century Grove. She acted in two silent films, A Romance of the Underworld and Experience, both of which are now lost.

Personal life

Sybil Carmen married writer and film executive Maurice Sydney Revnes in 1919; in 1926 they moved to France where he represented Pathé Studios. They had two children, a son Richard and a daughter Carmen. She died suddenly in Paris in 1929, from a heart attack or pneumonia.