Lily Cahill

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Lily Cahill was an American actress of the stage and screen. The granddaughter of Confederate Army Colonel John Jacob Myers, she began her career in 1910 at the age of 15 playing supporting roles in several silent films directed by D.W. Griffith. In 1911 she was given leading parts in A Victim of Circumstances and The Failure.

In 1912 Cahill abandoned her movie career for the stage, making her Broadway debut in the short lived play The Road to Arcady by Edith Sessions Tupper. She remained highly active in the New York theatre scene up through 1941. Some of her notable appearances are:

Roi Cooper Megrue's Under Cover

Brandon Tynan's The Melody of Youth

Henri Lavedan's The Marquis de Priola

Matheson Lang's The Purple Mask

Owen Davis's Opportunity

Arthur Goodrich's So This Is London

Jesse Lynch Williams's Lovely Lady

Sil-Vara's Caprice

Rachel Crothers's As Husbands Go

Sidney Howard's Alien Corn

S. N. Behrman's Rain From Heaven

George S. Kaufman's First Lady

Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse's Life With Father

She also made appearances on the London stage and was active in regional theatre both in the Northeast United States and in her native Texas.