Hilda Vaughn (born Hilda Weiller Strouse; December 27, 1898 – December 28, 1957) was an American actress of the stage, film, radio, and television.[1][2]
Hilda Vaughn | |
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| Born | December 27, 1898 Baltimore,Baltimore city,Maryland |
| Died | December 28, 1957 (aged 60) Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Vassar College American Academy of Dramatic Arts |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1929–1950 |
| Height | 5 ft 5 in (165 cm) |
Early years
editBorn Hilda Weiller Strouse,[3] Vaughn was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eli Strouse, Vaughn attended Vassar College[4][5] and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.[6]
Career
editVaughn frequently played a "pleb", or a commoner, in the films she acted in (waitresses, maids, charwomen, governesses, and saleswomen). A fixture at MGM in the sound era of the early 1930s, she acted in more than 50 films. Her most notable films were 1933's Dinner at Eight where she was memorable as Jean Harlow's blackmailing maid, as well as Today We Live (1933), Chasing Yesterday (1935), and Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum (1940).[7]
She appeared on Broadway, and in 1924 toured as the lead in Rain based on a story by W. Somerset Maugham. Her "smoldering quality" came back to Broadway two years later in The Seed of the Brute at the Little Theatre. She also appeared on Broadway in Glory Hallelujah.[8]
After making several films, Vaughn was part of the Hollywood blacklist. She returned to the stage in 1942 to play the lead in Only the Heart at the American Actors Company. In 1943 she appeared in William Saroyan's Get Away Old Man, followed by several other appearances, including playing the nurse to Judith Anderson's Medea and the mother in The Devil's Disciple by George Bernard Shaw. She was also known for her concert readings of plays.
Death
editFilmography
edit- Three Live Ghosts (1929) - Peggy Woofers[11]
- Manslaughter (1930) - Louise Evans
- A Tailor Made Man (1931) - (uncredited)
- It's a Wise Child (1931) - Alice Peabody
- Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) (1931) - Astrid Ohlin
- Ladies of the Big House (1931) - Millie
- The Phantom of Crestwood (1932) - Mrs. Carter
- No Other Woman (1933) - Miss LeRoy - Governess
- Today We Live (1933) - Eleanor
- No Marriage Ties (1933) - Fanny Olmstead, Foster's Secretary
- Dinner at Eight (1933) - Tina
- Anne of Green Gables (1934) - Mrs. Blewett
- The Wedding Night (1935) - Hezzie Jones
- Straight from the Heart (1935) - Miss Nellie
- Chasing Yesterday (1935) - Collette - the Slavey (uncredited)
- Men Without Names (1935) - Nurse Simpson
- I Live My Life (1935) - Miss Ann Morrison
- The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936) - Gaptown Teacher (uncredited)
- Everybody's Old Man (1936) - Maid
- Gentle Julia (1936) - Telephone Operator (uncredited)
- Captain January (1936) - Dress Saleswoman (uncredited)
- The Witness Chair (1936) - Anna Yifnick (uncredited)
- Half Angel (1936) - Bertha
- And Sudden Death (1936) - Prison Inmate (uncredited)
- The Accusing Finger (1936) - Maid
- Charlie Chan at the Opera (1936) - Agnes - Wardrobe Woman (uncredited)
- Banjo On My Knee (1936) - Gurtha
- Danger – Love at Work (1937) - Pemberton's Maid
- Nothing Sacred (1937) - Mrs. Cartwright - Chief Ranger (uncredited)
- Maid's Night Out (1938) - Mary - Harrison's Maid
- Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum (1940) - Mrs. Rocke
- Confirm or Deny (1941) - Receptionist (scenes deleted)
References
edit- ^ Eckstein, Arthur. “The Hollywood Ten in History and in Memory”. Film History 16, no. 4 (December 2004): 424-436. Communication and Mass Media complete, EBSCOhost; accessed March 28, 2015.
- ^ "arthur-miller & mccarthyism". American Masters. pbs. Archived from the original on 2015-09-14. Retrieved 2017-08-29.
- ^ "Vaughn, Hilda". The Broadcast 41. broadcast41.uoregon.edu.
- ^ "Catalogue". Vassar College Bulletin. 5 (4): 184. 1915.
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- ^ "Sophomore Party" (PDF). The Vassarion. Poughkeepsie, NY: Vassar College. 1917. p. 108.
- ^ Leith, Elizabeth (November 10, 1943). "Miss Vaughn Again Acts For Theatergoers Here". The Evening Sun. Maryland, Baltimore. p. 26 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Wollstein, Hans J. "Biography by Hans J. Wollstein". www.allmovie.com. Retrieved June 30, 2018.
- ^ "Hilda Vaughn, Actress, Is Dead at 60; Last Appeared Here in 'The River Line'". New York Times. 1957-12-30. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
Hilda Vaughn of 315 East Sixty-eighth Street, New York, a character actress who appeared on the Broadway stage and in more than fifty motion pictures, died yesterday at a hospital here on her sixtieth birthday.
- ^ "Hilda Vaughn, Ex-Actress, Dies". The Los Angeles Times. California, Los Angeles. Associated Press. December 30, 1957. p. 1. Retrieved 25 March 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Wilson, Scott (19 August 2016). Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed. McFarland. p. 773. ISBN 978-1-4766-2599-7.
She died in Baltimore, listed as Hilda Strouse, the day after her 59th birthday. Oheb Shalom Cemetery, 6130 O'Donnell St., Baltimore, MD. 12999.
- ^ Hall, Mordaunt (30 September 1929). "THE SCREEN; The Shell-Shocked Kleptomaniac. In Amanullah's Country". The New York Times.
External links
edit- Hilda Vaughn at IMDb
- "Hilda Vaughn". Broadway Cast & Staff. IBDB.
- "Hilda Vaughn". AllMovie.
- "Hilda Vaughn (1898-1957)". Find A Grave.
- Stabile, Carol A. (2018). The Broadcast 41: Women and the Anti-Communist Blacklist. London: Goldsmiths Press. ISBN 9781906897871.
- "Vaughn, Hilda". The Broadcast 41. broadcast41.uoregon.edu.
- Vaughn, Hilda (1962). Hilda (1 ed.). New York: Thistle Press. p. 25. OCLC 893310084.