seventy-year-old Morgan had a sexual relationship with Elliott but no evidence substantiates these rumours. Assuredly Morgan gave her financial advice of all sorts and she became a rich woman because of this advice. Shortly after divorcing Goodwin, she returned to New York City and in 1908 opened her own theater, The Maxine Elliott, located on 39th Street near Broadway. She was both owner and manager, and, at the time, the only woman in the United States running her own theater. Her first production was The Chaperon. She experimented with acting in silent films in 1913. In that year, she was in Slim Driscoll, Samaritan, When the West Was Young and A Doll for the Baby, but she soon returned to Britain. In 1913, she started dating tennis star Anthony Wilding, who was over 15 years her junior, with The Seattle Star calling him her lover. According to The Seattle Star she had planned to marry Wilding, but he was killed on May 9, 1915, at the Battle of Aubers Ridge. After his death she reportedly became obsessed with the war and Elliott moved to Belgium and volunteered both her income and her time to the cause of the Belgian relief, for which she received the Order of the Crown (Belgium). In 1917, Elliott returned to the U.S. and signed with the newly formed Goldwyn Pictures to make the 1917 film Fighting Odds and The Eternal Magdalene. The odds are against Elliott's films surviving the decades, but evidence points to Fighting Odds surviving in Russia's Gosfilmofond. Elliott can be seen visiting Charlie Chaplin's studios in 1918 and cavorting with him and her entourage before Chaplin's cameras. Her visit to Chaplin survives and usually ends up in omnibus videos on Chaplin. Elliott's last stage appearance was in 1920 in Trimmed in Scarlett, aged 52. She then retired from acting, announcing that she "wished to grow middle-aged gracefully". As regards her performances, reviewers disagreed "over whether it was her beauty or her acting ability that attracted attention". Businesswoman Successful in business and investment, Elliott had homes in America, England, and in France. A photograph of Winston Churchill (accompanied by his wife, Clementine) working on an oil painting in the grounds of one of her houses, Hartsbourne Manor in England, appears in Andrew Roberts' Churchill: Walking with Destiny. Elliott's sister Gertrude Elliot with her husband Johnston Forbes-Robertson and their children Maxine "Blossom" Miles, Jean,