Rebekah Earle Cauble (May 8, 1901 – November 23, 1963), also known as Rhea Cauble and later as Rebekah Halee, was an American stage actress.
Early life
Cauble was born in Greenville, South Carolina,[1] the daughter of Charles L. Cauble and Felicia Folger Cauble.[2] Her father, a railroad engineer, was killed in an accidental train derailment in 1905.[3] She moved to Atlanta,[4] then to New York in her youth.[5] She attended Salem College, a Moravian women's school in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.[2] Her older sister Miriam was also an actress, under the name "Muriel Folger" (using their mother's maiden name).[4][6]
Career
Cauble went to Cincinnati to gain theatre experience in a stock company as a young woman. While she was in Cincinnati, the teenaged Cauble was featured in a unique and successful fundraiser for the Cincinnati Zoological Gardens, when she was displayed in a cage as an "American Chicken".[7]
Cauble appeared in the Broadway musicals My Lady's Glove (1917), Doing Our Bit (1917), Sinbad (1918), Tangerine (1921–1922) and Oh! Oh! Nurse (1925–1926).[8][9][10] Other stage credits included roles in Jim Jam Jems (1921)[11] and Little Jessie James (1924).[12] "Miss Cauble possesses charm and personality combined with beauty of voice and is a dancer of ability," noted a 1926 report.[13] Later in her career, Cauble performed on radio and television programs.[1]
Personal life
Cauble was engaged to her childhood friend, artist Alonzo C. Webb, in the early 1920s.[14] She married twice; her first husband was David Clarkson Faulkner; they had one son.[15] Her second husband was musician, composer and singer Royal Walter Halee; they had two children, including Roy D. Halee (a Grammy-winning recording engineer).[16] Her husband died in 1960,[17] and she died in 1963, aged 62 years, at Long Beach Memorial Hospital.[1]
