- Overweight comedienne of the silent screen, the female equivalent of 'Fatty' Arbuckle. Appeared in many two-reelers, including the 'Smith Family' series for Mack Sennett between 1926 and 1928. Also with Oliver Hardy in 'Crazy to Act' (1927).
- After leaving her husband in 1910 Sunshine tried to end her life by swallowing carbolic acid. Her mouth and throat were badly burned but she recovered. The couple reconciled and their only child, Leora, was born in March of 1911.
- Sunshine died on January 3, 1930 from an enlarged heart. She was just fifty-one years old. Unfortunately she had spent the last few weeks of her life bedridden.
- In 1927 she was cast as Mary Pickford's mother in My Best Girl. During filming she badly injured her foot when she fell doing an automobile stunt. Although she kept working she never fully recovered from this accident.
- Despite her age and size she was always willing to do dangerous stunts if it got a laugh.
- Sunshine, who weighed more than 250 pounds, usually played funny mothers.
- At the age of thirty-eight she made her film debut in the 1916 comedy A Scoundrel's Toll.
- Producer Mack Sennett gave her a part in his 1924 film Scarem Much and offered her a long term contract. She would go on to star in more than two dozen of Sennett's comedies including Crazy To Act, Hoboken To Hollywood, and Smith's Baby.
- In 1903 she married Charles W. Hart, a machinist. They had a daughter named Leora. Sadly Sunshine tried to commit suicide in September of 1910 by swallowing carbolic acid. She divorced Charles and married Frederick Paul Voyles, a farmer, on August 28, 1911. Two years later she divorced him and remarried Charles W. Hart.
- After high school she started acting in stock companies and spent many years working in vaudeville using the stage "Miss Sunshine".
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