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- Blanche Bates was born on 25 August 1873 in Portland, Oregon, USA. She was an actress, known for The Border Legion (1918) and Tom's Little Star (1919). She was married to George Creel and Lieutenant Milton F. Davis. She died on 25 December 1941 in San Francisco, California, USA.
- Nance O'Neil was born on 8 October 1874 in Oakland, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Kreutzer Sonata (1915), Princess Romanoff (1915) and Hedda Gabler (1917). She was married to Alfred Hickman. She died on 7 February 1965 in Englewood, New Jersey, USA.
- Vera Lewis was born on 10 June 1873 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for The Roaring Twenties (1939), Betty in Search of a Thrill (1915) and Four Daughters (1938). She was married to Ralph Lewis. She died on 8 February 1956 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Anne Schaefer was born on 10 July 1870 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. She was an actress, known for A Little Princess (1917), The Price of a Good Time (1917) and Main Street (1923). She was married to F. Medek. She died on 3 May 1957 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Evelyn Selbie was born on 6 July 1871 in Ohio, USA. She was an actress, known for The Silver Treasure (1926), Dangerous Paradise (1930) and The Prisoner's Story (1912). She died on 7 December 1950 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Mary Foy was born on 9 August 1872 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. She was an actress, known for The House of Mystery (1934), Slightly Married (1932) and The White Rose (1923). She was married to Patrick Foy. She died on 18 June 1956 in New York, New York, USA.
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The world's first female filmmaker, French-born Alice Guy entered the film business in 1896 as a secretary at Gaumont, a manufacturer of movie cameras and projectors who had purchased a "cinématographer" from its inventors, the Lumiere brothers. The next year Gaumont became the world's first motion picture production company when they switched to creating movies, and Guy became its first film director. She impressed the company so much with the output (she averaged two two-reelers a week) and quality of her productions that by 1905 she was made the company's production director, supervising its other directors. In 1907 she married Herbert Blaché, an Englishman who ran Gaumont's British and German offices. The pair went to the U.S. to set up the company's operations there. In 1910 Mme. Guy set up her own production company, Solax, in New York and with her husband built a studio in Fort Lee, New Jersey. After a period of critical and financial success, the couple's fortunes declined when Thomas Alva Edison's trust hindered film production in the East coast, and they eventually shut down the studio in 1919. Although her husband secured work directing films for several major Hollywood studios, Guy was never able to secure any directorial jobs there, never made a film again, most of her films were lost, some were credited to other film directors, and she did no receive recognition for her pioneering work in France and the United States. She returned to France in 1922 after her divorce from Blaché, and in 1964 returned to the U.S. and lived in Mahwah, New Jersey - not far from where her original studios were - with her daughter, where she died in 1968.- Louise Emmons was born in 1858 in Yuba County, California, USA. She was an actress, known for The Last Egyptian (1914), Polly Redhead (1917) and White Eagle (1922). She was married to Roswell Emmons. She died on 6 March 1935 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Kate Price was born on 13 February 1872 in Cork, Ireland. She was an actress and writer, known for Quality Street (1927), Arizona (1918) and Paradise (1926). She was married to Joseph Price Ludwig . She died on 4 January 1943 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.- American character actress famed for roles as mothers. Born in a Philadelphia suburb as Mary Kennevan, she became a schoolteacher, but soon gave it up for work as an actress in touring companies. She married actor William Carr and toured extensively with his company. After the turn of the century, he became involved in film production as both an actor and director, and he brought Mary and their six children into the film business with him. Mary made her film debut in 1916, but it was her appearance in Over the Hill to the Poorhouse (1920) which made her a success in movies. It was a tremendous success due in large part to her touching portrayal of a poverty-stricken mother. She followed it with similar roles in scores of films throughout the silent period. A fallow period arrived with the talkies, and Carr found herself nearly destitute, but publicity about her status rallied help to her cause and she found help and occasional work. She spent her later years appearing infrequently, often in films directed by her son Thomas Carr. She died at the age of 99 in November 1973.
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Lillian Leighton was born on 17 May 1874 in Auroraville, Wisconsin, USA. She was an actress and writer, known for Parisian Love (1925), Secret Service (1919) and Castles for Two (1917). She died on 19 March 1956 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actress
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Soledad Jiménez was born on 28 February 1874 in Santander, Spain. She was an actress, known for Kid Galahad (1937), The Girl from Rio (1939) and The Kid from Rio (1939). She died on 17 October 1966 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Titian haired, full figured, voluptuous Dorothy Vernon had a career that spanned from the early days of moving pictures through the boxed screen known as television.
Whether it was a comedy, a western, a musical or whatever was needed, Dorothy did it all. Her unforgettable glow and her almost heavenly serene appearance was the focal point of many western square dances, slapstick sequences, or horrid haunts.
One film historian noted that he had seen Vernon in so many PRC westerns that he started to believe that she was Charles King's out of work mother.
At the end of the day, it doesn't matter what you watch from the 1920s - 1950, chances are eventually you'll run into the small lady with the big presence. - Actress
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Eburne started on the stage in Ontario and New York, later appearing on Broadway in 1914, playing a cockney maid. She played comic servants on stage until 1930 then moved to films in 1931. On screen, she played a variety of roles from maids to aristocrats to pipe-smoking harridans. Eburne retired from the screen in 1951.- A Pennsylvania Dutch girl who moved to New York in the late 19th century to pursue a theatrical career, she became one of early silent pictures' better known character actresses. Between 1910 and 1920 she appeared in over 90 films, but then her acting career all but ended, and she devoted the rest of her life to the study and teaching of an occult religion. In 1918 she had begun a correspondence with the English writer and occultist Aleister Crowley. In 1920 she left Hollywood to join Crowley at his "Abbey of Thelema" on the Italian island of Sicily where she lived for several years, becoming his student Soror Estai, and accepting his new religion of sex, drugs, and magick in the name of personal liberation. Later she returned to Southern California where she continued to represent Crowley, and taught his doctrines for many years until her death in 1958.
- Clara Blandick was an American actress born as Clara Dickey and born aboard an American ship off the coast of Hong Kong on June 4, 1880. Little is known about her early life until she became an actress. She grew up in Boston and first acted on stage in E.H. Sothern's 'Richard Lovelace'. Although she appeared in 118 films, she was primarily a stage actress. She began her film career at a late age. She was 33 when she was picked for the role as Emily Mason in Mrs. Black Is Back (1914). Her next film was The Stolen Triumph (1916), after which she returned to the stage, where she seemed more comfortable. She did not make another film until the age of 48, when she appeared in Poor Aubrey (1930).
She had only three films under her belt by this time but would appear in more than 100 over the next 20 years. She made nine films in 1930, and thirteen the following year. The role that was to immortalize her, however, was "Auntie Em" in The Wizard of Oz (1939). She continued in films until 1950, when she appeared on the screen for the final time in Key to the City (1950).
By this time Blandick had been suffering from poor health for years, especially painful arthritis and failing eyesight, and retired from the screen. On Palm Sunday, April 15, 1962, aged 85, she went to church in Hollywood. When she returned she wrote a note stating she was about to take the greatest adventure of her life. She took an overdose of sleeping tablets and pulled a plastic bag over her head, thus ending her life.1876 - 1962, 85. Hong Kong, California.
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Mrs. Borst, Drums Along the Mohawk (1939). 1939. - Claire McDowell was born on 2 November 1877 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925), The Big Parade (1925) and The Mark of Zorro (1920). She was married to Charles Hill Mailes. She died on 23 October 1966 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- Julia Swayne Gordon was born on 29 October 1878 in Columbus, Ohio, USA. She was an actress, known for My Lady's Slipper (1916), You Can't Fool Your Wife (1923) and The Painted World (1919). She was married to Hugh Thomas Swayne. She died on 28 May 1933 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Nora Cecil was born on 26 September 1878 in London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Street Scene (1931), Seven Days Leave (1930) and Midnight Faces (1926). She died on 1 May 1951 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Julia Mackley was born on 30 October 1878 in Virginia, USA. She was an actress, known for Intolerance (1916), Daughter Angele (1918) and A Mother's Justice (1915). She was married to Arthur Mackley. She died on 2 July 1964 in Long Beach, California, USA.
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The daughter of actor-manager Samuel Rupert Woods and actress Lillie Roberts, Ethel Griffies began her own stage career at the age of 3. She was 21 when she finally made her London debut in 1899, and 46 when she made her first Broadway appearance in "Havoc" (1924). Discounting a tentative stab at filmmaking in 1917, she made her movie bow in 1930, repeating her stage role in Old English (1930). Habitually cast as a crotchety old lady with the proverbial golden heart, she alternated between bits and prominently featured roles for the next 35 years. Her larger parts included Grace Poole in both the 1934 (Jane Eyre (1934)) and 1943 (Jane Eyre (1943)) versions of "Jane Eyre" and "Mrs. Bundy", the amateur ornithologist in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963). Every so often she'd take a sabbatical from film work to concentrate on the stage; she made her last Broadway appearance in 1967, at which time she was England's oldest working actress. Presumably at the invitation of fellow Briton Arthur Treacher, Ethel was a frequent guest on TV's The Merv Griffin Show (1962), never failing to bring down the house with her wickedly witty comments on her 80 years in show business.1878 - 1975, 97.
Clarissa Van Steed, Saratoga Trunk (1945). 1945.
Mrs. Hanky, Billy the Kid (1941). 1941.- Actress
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Pioneer silver screen star Kathlyn Williams is primarily known as the spry blonde of the very first Hollywood cliffhanger, The Adventures of Kathlyn (1913), in which her real first name was used in the title. This accomplishment has resulted in many reference works mistakenly referring to her as an adventurous Pearl White-type silent serial queen. While Kathlyn did, in fact, go on to perform in a few other adventure-type pictures, including westerns, she was actually quite gentile and dignified in nature and primarily graced heavier drama on the screen. Having once been dubbed the Sarah Bernhardt of the screen, she never did appear in another serial.
She was born in Butte, Montana, on May 31, 1879 (most sources incorrectly list 1888) of Norwegian and Welsh descent, Kathlyn was born to Joseph E. and Mary C. Williams. With early interest and experience as a vocal recitalist, she eventually attended the Sargent School of Acting and studied at Wesleyan University (1899). Following stage experience in local stock and touring companies (from 1902) she began to develop a solid name for herself in such plays as "When We Were Twenty One". Her early career was generously sponsored by Sen. W.A. Clarke after Kathlyn's family lost their fortunes. She eventually went to Hollywood while performing with the Belasco Stock Company and began making films as early as 1908 with D.W. Griffith at the Biograph Studio.
A popular star at the Selig Polyscope Company in 1910 (she was at first publicized as "The Selig Girl"), she appeared in assorted jungle adventures for the studio as well as a number of westerns opposite cowboy star Tom Mix. She made history, however, with the very first serial adventure, which contained a number of wild animals, and it saved the faltering studio from bankruptcy. She proceeded to remain a popular item after being handed the lead in the Selig epic The Spoilers (1914), playing her signature role of Cherry Marlotte.
Once the Selig Studio folded, Kathlyn signed with Paramount Pictures following her marriage to Paramount executive Charles F. Eyton in 1916 (a former actor, he later became the studio's General Manager), and while there appeared as the star of several early dramas for both Cecil B. DeMille and his brother William C. de Mille, including The Whispering Chorus (1918), We Can't Have Everything (1918), The Tree of Knowledge (1920) and Conrad in Quest of His Youth (1920). Her numerous co-stars included veteran matinée idols (Thomas Meighan, Theodore Roberts, Tyrone Power Sr.), young established stars (Wallace Reid) and western heroes (Roy Stewart.
Kathlyn's fair, spunky, coquettish looks grew suddenly grim and matronly by the early 1920s and she moved swiftly into stately dramatic efforts, backing up such celebrity femmes of the day as May McAvoy, Betty Compson, Anita Page, Greta Garbo and even Joan Crawford before the advent of sound. She retired from films in 1935 after only a handful of talkies and, though comebacks were bantered about from time to time in the gossip mill, nothing came of it. A tragic car accident in 1949 resulted in the loss of a leg, ending any chances whatsoever of revitalizing her career. She was confined to a wheelchair for the remainder of her life.
Married and divorced three times, her only child, Victor Hugo Kainer, from her first marriage to import/export businessman Otto Kainer, was born in 1905 but died a young teenager after developing influenza and succumbing to septic poisoning in 1922. After a brief marriage to actor Frank R. Allen, she married Eyton. That marriage ended in 1931.
Due to the loss of her leg, Kathlyn became a wheelchair-bound invalid in the last decade of her life. She succumbed to massive heart attack in her Hollywood apartment on September 23, 1960, at age 81. She was cremated and her ashes interred in the Deodora Hall, South Columbarium in the Chapel of the Pines Crematory in Los Angeles.- Martha Mattox was born on 19 June 1879 in Natchez, Mississippi, USA. She was an actress, known for The Cat and the Canary (1927), Huckleberry Finn (1920) and Christine of the Big Tops (1926). She died on 2 May 1933 in Sidney, New York, USA.
- Missouri-born Jane Darwell was born Patti Woodard, the daughter of William Robert Woodard, president of the Louisville Southern Railroad, and Ellen (Booth) Woodard, in Palmyra, Missouri, where she grew up on a ranch . She nursed ambitions to be an opera singer, but put it off because of her father's disapproval (she eventually changed her name to Darwell from the family name of Woodard so as not to "sully" the family name). Making her stage debut at age 33, she was almost 40 when she made her first film, a silent, in 1913.
She easily made the transition from silents to talkies, and specialized in playing kindly, grandmotherly types. Her most famous role was as Ma Joad, the glue that held the Joad family together, in the classic The Grapes of Wrath (1940), for which she won the Academy Award. She was, however, memorably cast against type in The Ox-Bow Incident (1942), as the shrewish, cackling Ma Grier, a lynch mob leader, and again in Caged (1950), as the unsympathetic prison matron in charge of the isolation ward.
She made over 200 films. Her last, Mary Poppins (1964), was made at the express request of Walt Disney; she had retired and was living at the Motion Picture Country Home and Disney came out personally to ask her to appear in the film, after which she went back into retirement. She died in 1967 after suffering a stroke and a heart attack, and was interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. - Mabel Trunnelle was born in Dwight, Illinois on November 8, 1879. A stage actress from the East Coast, Mabel was 32 when she appeared on the silver screen. In 1911 she was in A MODERN CINDERELLA, IN THE DAYS OF CHIVALRY, and THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER, the latter being the most notable. Her last film was in 1923's THE LOVE TRAP. At 44 she went back to the stage. On April 29, 1981, Mabel died in Glendale, California at the age of 101.
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Ethel Wales was born on 4 April 1878 in Passaic, New Jersey, USA. She was an actress, known for The Monster (1925), Klondike (1932) and Don't (1925). She was married to John W. Stockton and Wellington Wales. She died on 15 February 1952 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Emma Tansey was born on 12 September 1870 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. She was an actress, known for When You and I Were Young (1917), Joan of the Woods (1918) and Are Children to Blame? (1920). She died on 23 March 1942 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Maibelle Heikes Justice was born in 1871 in Logansport, Indiana, USA. Maibelle Heikes was a writer, known for The Glory of Yolanda (1917), Orphan Sally (1922) and The End of the Trail (1916). Maibelle Heikes died on 11 March 1926.
- Most fans of popular--and prolific--western novelist B.M. Bower would probably be shocked to find out that the "B.M." stood for "Bertha Muzzie", for B.M. Bower was indeed a woman. Born in Cleveland, MN, in 1871, her family moved to Montana when she was a small child and she grew up there, where she loved to jump on a horse and roam the open ranges, hanging out with real cowboys and absorbing as much western lore and history as she could. She married Clayton J. Bower when she was 19 (she married three times altogether). By 1904 she had published her most famous--and many consider her best--novel, "Chip of the Flying U". It sold very well and was brought to the screen three times--with Tom Mix (Chip of the Flying U (1914)), Hoot Gibson (Chip of the Flying U (1926)) and Johnny Mack Brown (Chip of the Flying U (1939)). She wrote several sequels to "Chip" among her prolific output. She eventually left Montana and moved to Oregon for a while, but then moved to Los Angeles, CA, where she died in 1940.
- Margaret McWade was born Margaret May Fish in Chicago, Illinois in 1872. In vaudeville, during the 1890s, she met Margaret Seddon. The two teamed up in a double act billed as the "Pixilated Sisters". She later appeared most often as spinsters or mothers in many films, first under contract to the Edison Film Company under the direction of Ashley Miller in The Drama of Heyville (1914), starring Marc McDermott, followed by the Vitagraph Film Company.
She may have been best-remembered for playing the role of Mrs. Challenger with Wallace Beery as Professor Challenger in 1925's The Lost World (1925), made with the First-National Film Company. She was mostly seen in minor roles in many talkies until her last film before retiring, George Cukor's It Should Happen to You (1954), starring Jack Lemmon and Judy Holliday. - Dorothea Wolbert was born on 12 April 1874 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. She was an actress, known for The Little Minister (1922), Dangerous Paradise (1930) and The Abysmal Brute (1923). She died on 15 September 1958 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- Lottie Williams was born on 20 January 1874 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. She was an actress, known for Dark Victory (1939), Yesterday's Wife (1923) and The Barefoot Boy (1923). She died on 16 November 1962 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Madge Hunt was born on 27 November 1875 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for The Heart of Maryland (1927), The Runaway Express (1926) and Elmo, the Mighty (1919). She was married to William Hunt. She died on 2 August 1935 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Adabelle Driver was born on 6 December 1875 in Settle, North Yorkshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Twisted Rails (1934), The Dream Melody (1929) and The Fighting Terror (1929). She was married to Major William Driver. She died on 23 October 1952 in South San Gabriel, California, USA.1875 - 1952, 76. UK. California.
Belinda -the ranch cook, The Last Round-Up (1929). 1929..
7 westerns, 29-39. - Nora Bush was born on 13 November 1875 in Johnson, Scotland County, Missouri, USA. She was an actress, known for Valley of Vengeance (1944), Dragnet (1951) and My Little Margie (1952). She died on 22 April 1970 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Raye Hampton was born on April 4, 1875 in Florence, Texas, USA as Ella Norton Garrett. She was an actress, known for Western Grit (1924), The Masquerade Bandit (1926) and Pals in Peril (1927). She was married to John Zapf. She died on April 22, 1944 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Aggie Herring was born on 4 February 1876 in San Francisco, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Oliver Twist (1922), A Blind Bargain (1922) and Pampered Youth (1925). She was married to Jess Herring. She died on 28 October 1939 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
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Bernstein built Universal City. He was often associated with Pacific Studios, Hal Roach and King Vidor. He also served as production manager for Technical Oil Tool Company. Bernstein, along with Ernst Laemmle, producer and writer Jesse J. Goldburg, producer Sol Wurtzel and a handful of others, were founders of the Temple Israel in 1926. Temple Israel was ground in the spirit of social activism and prophetic justice, their first location was a house rented from actor Sessue Hayakawa in Hollywood, to be used for a religious school.- Lillian Case Russell was born on 3 April 1876 in South Dakota, USA. Lillian Case was a writer, known for The Soul of a Magdalen (1917), The Light Within (1918) and The Clouded Name (1919). Lillian Case was married to John Lowell. Lillian Case died on 2 June 1947 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.
- Rose Plumer was born on 19 January 1876 in Fresno, California, USA. She was an actress, known for The Secret Code (1942), Inside the Law (1942) and Dark Mountain (1944). She was married to Lincoln Plumer. She died on 3 March 1955 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- Jane Keckley was born on 10 September 1876 in Charleston, South Carolina, USA. She was an actress, known for Sweet Lavender (1920), A Virginia Courtship (1921) and In Old Montana (1939). She was married to Roy Watson. She died on 14 August 1963 in South Pasadena, California, USA.
- Adele Lane was born on 17 July 1877 in New Jersey, USA. She was an actress, known for The Story of Cupid (1914), At Last We Are Alone (1914) and Conscience and the Temptress (1914). She was married to Burton L. King. She died on 24 October 1957 in Los Angeles, California, USA.1877 - 1957, 80.
9 westerns, 12-15. - Theodosia Harris was born on 2 June 1877 in Virginia City, Nevada, USA. She was a writer, known for The Soul's Cycle (1916), The Hidden Law (1916) and The Leopard's Bride (1916). She was married to James Henry Knowles. She died on 20 November 1938 in Bexar County, Texas, USA.
- Fanny Midgley was born on 26 November 1879 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. She was an actress, known for Wasted Lives (1923), The Corsican Brothers (1920) and Some Pun'kins (1925). She died on 4 January 1932 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Eugenie Forde was born on 22 June 1879 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Cameo Kirby (1923), The Courtesan (1916) and Fair Enough (1918). She was married to Guy H. Fetters. She died on 5 September 1940 in Van Nuys, California, USA.
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Mary Young was born on 21 June 1879 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for The Lost Weekend (1945), Alias Jesse James (1959) and The Stork Club (1945). She was married to John Craig. She died on 23 June 1971 in La Jolla, California, USA.- Kathryn Sheldon was born on 22 September 1879 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. She was an actress, known for I'm from the City (1938), Rockin' Thru the Rockies (1940) and Miss V from Moscow (1942). She died on 25 December 1975 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Jessie Proctor was born on 20 December 1873 in Wisconsin, USA. She was an actress. She died on 6 July 1975 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.In Old California (1942). 1942.- Prudencia Grifell, was a popular stage and film actress who began her career in Venezuela at the age of 10, where her parents, who were Spanish stage actors were appearing. She began by playing ingenous in Operettas and musical comedies, working throughout Latin America and her native Spain where she was very much in demand. By the early 1900s she appeared in all types of stage plays and had become very popular. In 1905 she moved to Mexico where she became a popular and respected stage actress, but her tours would take her throughout the Spanish speaking world. In the meantime she gave birth to five children all of whom went on to become actors. After the outbreak of the Spanish civil war in the late 30s, she chose in 1940 to settle permanently in Mexico. That year, at the age of 61, she also appeared in her first film, which would lead to a prolific career as a popular and much loved character star actress. She usually played sweet lovable grandmother types as well as more feisty parts. She began by playing character parts but by the mid 50s, in her seventies, she became very popular, and began doing leading parts for which she won many awards. By the early 60s she began appearing on Mexican television in soap operas and television shows, and was active well into her 80s, and by 1968 all five of her children had predeceased her. In a career that ran for almost eight decades, she will always be remembered as one of the most beloved and respected actresses of Mexican cinema.
- Hallene Hill was born on 12 September 1876 in Kirksville, Missouri, USA. She was an actress, known for The Search for Bridey Murphy (1956), The Arkansas Traveler (1938) and Thriller (1960). She died on 6 January 1966 in Los Angeles, California, USA.