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Popular in the late 1910s, dark-haired Christine Mayo, according to her official biography, "specialized in vampire and emotional leads" -- her brand of "vampires" of course being of the kohl-rimmed, man-eating kind. Mayo had starred in such stage productions as Seven Keys to Baldpate (with George M. Cohan) and Excuse Me and also appeared in vaudeville prior to making her screen debut around 1916. Today, Mayo can be seen as John Barrymore's nemesis in the comedy-drama Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman (1917), an entertaining version of E. W. Horning's sophisticated gentleman-thief made even more so by her outrageous overacting. Mayo retired from film work in 1924.