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==Later years and films== [[File:Eva Moore & Henry Vernon Esmond.jpg|thumb|right|Moore with her husband [[Henry V. Esmond]]]] Moore was active in the suffrage movement (as was her sister Decima), attending meetings and appearing in suffragist plays and films.<ref>Crawford, Elizabeth. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Wo89DfZ-T6AC&pg=PA424 ''The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866β1928''], p. 424, Routledge (2001); {{ISBN|0-415-23926-5}}</ref> She was a founder of the [[Actresses' Franchise League]] in 1908 but resigned from that organisation when other members objected to her acting in a sketch called "Her Vote", by her husband, in which the heroine prefers kisses to votes.<ref name=DNB/> Moore later managed her husband's comedy ''Eliza Comes to Stay'', which opened at the [[Criterion Theatre]] on 12 February 1913, transferring to the [[Vaudeville Theatre]] on 6 July 1914, and then took the play to New York City for an unsuccessful run. After the First World War began, she continued acting at the Vaudeville in the evenings but worked as a volunteer during the day for the [[Women's Emergency Corps]], based at the [[Little Theatre in the Adelphi|Little Theatre]].{{cn|date=April 2015}} She raised money for hospital and wartime causes and was honoured with the ordre de la Reine Elisabeth for her wartime activities. At the [[Royalty Theatre]], she played Mrs. Culver in the 1918 play ''The Title'', by [[Arnold Bennett]], where she also played Mrs. Etheridge in ''Caesar's Wife'' by [[W. Somerset Maugham]] and the title role in ''[[Mumsie (play)|Mumsie]]''. In October 1920, she and Esmond began an extensive tour of Canada with [[Nigel Bruce]] as their stage manager, who played Montague Jordan in ''Eliza Comes to Stay'', which re-opened at the [[Duke of York's Theatre]] in London on 14 June 1923.<ref name=DNB/> From 1920 to 1946, Moore made over two dozen films, beginning with ''The Law Divine'' (1920). Some of her best-received silent films were ''[[Flames of Passion]]'' (1922), ''[[The Great Well]]'' (1924), ''[[Chu-Chin-Chow (1925 film)|Chu-Chin-Chow]]'' (1925) and ''[[Motherland (1927 film)|Motherland]]'' (1927). Her most popular 'talkies' included ''[[Almost a Divorce]]'' (1931), ''[[The Old Dark House (1932 film)|The Old Dark House]]'' (1932), ''[[Leave It to Smith]]'' (1933), ''[[I Was a Spy]]'' (1933), ''[[Jew Suss (1934 film)|Jew SΓΌss]]'' (1934), ''[[A Cup of Kindness (film)|A Cup of Kindness]]'' (1934), ''[[Vintage Wine]]'' (1935), ''[[The Divorce of Lady X]]'' (1938, which starred her son-in-law [[Laurence Olivier]]) and ''[[Of Human Bondage (1946 film)|Of Human Bondage]]'' (1946).<ref>Parker, pp. 1060β62, 1628</ref> Moore published her reminiscences, ''Exits and Entrances'', in 1923 but continued to act until 1945. In later years, she resided at [[Bisham]], [[Maidenhead]], Berkshire, England, dying of [[myocardial degeneration]] at age 87.<ref name=DNB/>
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