Laura Hope Crews was the daughter of stage actress Angelena Lockwood and backstage carpenter John Thomas Crews . She had three older siblings . Crews started acting at age four . Her first stage appearance was at Woodward 's Garden . She stopped acting to finish school and then returned to acting in 1898 . A native San Franciscan , much of the records concerning her early life would be destroyed in the earthquake and fire of 1906
earthquake and fire of 1906
1906 San Francisco earthquake
Laura Hope Crews