Gladys Hulette

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Gladys Hulette (1914)

Gladys Hulette (born July 21, 1896 in Arcade , New York , † August 8, 1991 in Montebello , California ) was an American actress of the silent film era.

life and career

Gladys Hulette first appeared on stage at the age of three and played important roles on Broadway during her childhood , including as Tyltyl in the American premiere of Maurice Maeterlinck's The Blue Bird . In 1908, the then 12-year-old Hulette made her film debut in an early film adaptation of Romeo and Juliet with Florence Lawrence and Paul Panzer in the leading roles. Hulette quickly became a sought-after actress in early silent films and played the title role in Alice in Wonderland (1910), the second adaptation of Lewis Carroll's famous novel. As she got older, she shifted to roles as a nice young woman, with whom the main actor falls in love during the course of the film. Most of her films from the 1910s are now forgotten and lost. In 1921 she played one of her most famous roles alongside Richard Barthelmess as a young farmer's daughter in The attack on the Virginia post .

From 1917 to 1924 she was married to actor William Parke Jr., the marriage ended in divorce.

In the course of the 1920s, Hulette starred in John Ford's silent film classic The Iron Horse (1924), with "Baby Peggy" in the children's film The Family Secret (1924) or alongside Oliver Hardy and Charley Chase in the comedy Be Your Age (1926 ). Overall, however, her success waned, as she was now around 30 years old for the teenage girl roles that she usually played. In 1928 she withdrew from the film business for the first time, but came back to Hollywood again in 1933 for a few sound films . Like other silent film stars, however, she was only offered tiny roles. She said goodbye to acting and in 1948 worked as a ticket saleswoman at Radio City Music Hall in New York. In the early 1980s, the now elderly Hulette lived under simple circumstances in a state retirement home in Rosemead . The film historian Walter R. Coppedge visited her and wrote: “Nevertheless, her eyes are alert, her figure supple, her complexion pink and porcelain-like. She is still grateful for kindness, especially for the assurance that she will not be forgotten as long as people watch her films. "

Gladys Hulette died in Montebello, California in 1991 at the age of 95.

Filmography (selection)

Movie poster with Gladys Hulette for Other People's Money
  • 1908: Romeo and Juliet (short film)
  • 1909: Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy (short film)
  • 1909: A Midsummer Night's Dream (short film)
  • 1910: Alice in Wonderland
  • 1912: Martin Chuzzlewit
  • 1914: The Two Doctors
  • 1917: Over The Hill
  • 1917: Her New York
  • 1921: The attack on the Virgin Mary (Tol'able David)
  • 1923: Hoodman Blind
  • 1923: Enemies of Woman
  • 1924: The iron horse (The Iron Horse)
  • 1924: The Family Secret
  • 1926: Be Your Age
  • 1928: Life's Crossroads
  • 1933: Torch Singer
  • 1934: Millionaires Preferred (The Girl from Missouri)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ William Parke Jr. in the Internet Movie Database
  2. ↑ Biography ( Memento of the original from April 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thanhouser.org
  3. ↑ Walter R. Coppedge: Tol'Able David and American Heritage. In: The Virginia Quarterly Review VQR. 1982
personal data
SURNAME Hulette, Gladys
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actress of the silent film era
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Arcade , New York
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 1991
Place of death Montebello , California