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Gladys Hulette (July 21, 1896 – August 8, 1991) was a silent
film actress from Arcade, New York. Her career began in the early years of
silent movies and continued until the mid-1930s. She first performed on stage
at the age of three and on screen when she was seven years old. Hulette was
also a talented artist. Her mother was an opera star.
In her earliest motion picture features she was under
contract to Vitagraph Studios. There was a stigma for Broadway theater actors
to be seen in motion pictures when silent films first began to be made. Hulette
later discussed this, saying the picture heroes were mostly Coney Island life
savers. One company prevailed upon a leading stage actor to play the role of
Hamlet on screen. This began the influx of more Broadway actors into the new
medium.
By 1917 Hulette's films were being produced by leading
director William Parke. In that year she made her most popular film to date,
Streets of Illusion. Playing the part of Beam, Hulette's co-stars included
Richard Barthelmess and J.H. Gilmour. Parke owned theatrical companies and
assisted Hulette in making one hit after another.
By 1921 she was a veteran of the motion picture industry.
She again played opposite Barthelmess, this time in Tol'able David. She played
the ingenue part of Esther Hatburn. In an interview she said she wished for no
different type of roles than the one she played in this film. Later she sought
comedy-drama parts which she portrayed in Jack O' Hearts (1926) and A Bowery
Cinderella (1927).
Hulette made her debut in sound films in Torch Singer
(1933). Her final film appearances came in Her Resale Value (1933) and with
uncredited roles in The Girl From Missouri and One Hour Late, both from 1934.
Born
Tuesday, 21 July 1896
Died
Thursday, 08 August 1991
Actress Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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One Hour Late | Gertrude | 1934 |
The Girl from Missouri | Paige's Secretary | 1934 |
Torch Singer | Nightclub Patron | 1933 |
Her Resale Value | 1933 | |
Faithless Lover | Mary Callender | 1930 |
Life's Crossroads | The Lady | 1928 |
Making the Varsity | Estelle Carter | 1928 |
A Bowery Cinderella | Nora Denahy | 1927 |
Combat | Risa Bartlett | 1927 |
The Warning Signal | 1927 |
Actress Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
---|
One Hour Late | Gertrude | 1934 |
The Girl from Missouri | Paige's Secretary | 1934 |
Torch Singer | Nightclub Patron | 1933 |
Her Resale Value | 1933 | |
Faithless Lover | Mary Callender | 1930 |
Life's Crossroads | The Lady | 1928 |
Making the Varsity | Estelle Carter | 1928 |
A Bowery Cinderella | Nora Denahy | 1927 |
Combat | Risa Bartlett | 1927 |
The Warning Signal | 1927 | |
Be Your Age | The Widow's Secretary | 1926 |
Jack O'Hearts | 1926 | |
Unknown Treasures | Mary Hamilton | 1926 |
The Thoroughbred | Mitzi Callahan | 1926 |
The Skyrocket | Lucia Morgan | 1926 |
The Pride of the Force | Mary Moore | 1925 |
The Mystic | Doris Merrick | 1925 |
Go Straight | Gilda Hart | 1925 |
On the Threshold | Rosemary Masters | 1925 |
The Slanderers | Gladys Gray | 1924 |
The Family Secret | Margaret Selfridge | 1924 |
The Iron Horse | Ruby | 1924 |
The Night Message | Elsie Lefferts | 1924 |
Hoodman Blind | Nancy Yeulette / Jessie Walton | 1923 |
Enemies of Women | Vittoria Spadoni | 1923 |
As a Man Lives | Nadia Meredith | 1923 |
How Women Love | Natalie Nevins | 1922 |
Secrets of Paris | Mayflower | 1922 |
The Referee | Janie Roberts | 1922 |
Fair Lady | Myra Nell Drew | 1922 |
Tol'able David | Esther Hatburn | 1921 |
The Silent Barrier | Etta Stampa | 1920 |
Annexing Bill | Enid Barwell | 1918 |
Mrs. Slacker | Susie Simpkins | 1918 |
A Crooked Romance | Mary Flynn | 1917 |
The Streets of Illusion | Beam | 1917 |
The Last of the Carnabys | Lucy Carnaby | 1917 |
Pots-and-Pans Peggy | Peggy McGraw | 1917 |
Her New York | Phoebe Lester | 1917 |
Prudence, the Pirate | Prudence | 1916 |
The Shine Girl | The Shine Girl | 1916 |
The Flight of the Duchess | Lady Alice - The Earl's Ward | 1916 |
Getting to the Ball Game | Mrs. Meekley | 1914 |
The Active Life of Dolly of the Dailies | 1914 | |
Jack, the Giant Killer | Jack | 1912 |
A Japanese Peach Boy | 1910 | |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | Puck | 1909 |
Princess Nicotine; or, the Smoke Fairy | The Elder Fairy | 1909 |