Ena Hartman

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Ena Hartman (born April 1, 1935 in Moscow , Arkansas ) is an American actress .

Life

Hartman was born on a farm near the small town of Moscow in Arkansas. Her parents worked as sharecroppers . She too had to pick cotton as an adolescent . At the age of 13 she moved to live with her mother in Buffalo ; she had been divorced in the meantime. After having to leave high school for financial reasons despite good academic performance, she opened a small restaurant. There she took over all the tasks of cooking, serving and washing up. When she had enough money together, she moved to New York City in hopes of a career as a model .

Her first casting at a model agency was negative for her, but she was discovered by a talent scout a short time later. Between her assignments she took acting lessons from Joshua Shelley and Lloyd Richards ; her manager then succeeded in placing her at the artist agency William Morris Agency . This gave her an audition at NBC in 1962 . There she received a five-year contract that was endowed with 812,000 US dollars annually; she was the first African American woman to have such a contract. This was followed by guest appearances in series such as Bonanza and Raumschiff Enterprise , as well as small roles in films such as Derek Flint sends his corpse . Along with Mittie Lawrence and Gloria Calomee , she was one of the actresses considered for the character Uhura in Starship Enterprise before Nichelle Nichols took on the role.

Hartman then received a three-year contract with Universal Studios . Dissatisfied with her roles, she quit her contract in 1970 after playing a stewardess at Airport . The following year she received a starring role in the Quinn Martin -Actionserie Dan August alongside Burt Reynolds . However, this was discontinued after the first season. Hartman then tried his hand at the blaxploitation film and played one of the lead roles in the low-budget film Men Like The Tigers . Now without a contract with a large studio, she hardly received any role offers. Hartman had her last television appearance in 1975; In 1980, she was still in three Dan August - TV movies to see, but in this case it was compilations of old episodes.

Withdrawn from show business, she lives in Southern California.

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  1. ↑ a b c d Jet Magazine, September 24, 1970, pages 60 and 61
  2. ↑ a b Ebony , December 1962 edition, pages 37 and 38
  3. ↑ Star Trek: 15 Things You Didn't Know About Uhura - 9 Other Actresses Were Considered For The Part at screenrant.com. Retrieved October 27, 2019.
  4. ↑ a b c Tom Lisanti: Glamor Girls of Sixties Hollywood , McFarland 2018, ISBN 978-1476672335
personal data
SURNAME Hartman, Ena
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow , Arkansas