Mammy Lou (born c. 1804) was apparently the oldest
person to appear in a film. In 1918, she appeared in the silent
film, The Glorious Adventure, playing the part of The Mansion's
Servant, the mansion being the Hermitage in Savannah,
Georgia. Mammy Lou was a slave in Savannah, Georgia until Lincoln
abolished slavery. If legend is true, then Mammy Lou was 114 years
old at the time the picture was in production. This claim is
unauthenticated though, and if it were proven, this would mean that
Mammy Lou was around 60 years of age at the time she received her
freedom from slavery.
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