Gladys Hulette
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.
Child Actress
Hulette was among the principal players in Sappho and Phaon which had its first performance in Providence, Rhode Island on October 4, 1907. She helped support Bertha Kalich in the Percy MacKaye production. As a child she also appeared in Romeo and Juliet (1908) and The Smoke Fairy (1909). On stage, in Blue Bird, she played the wonder child. She was the sweet youth, Beth, in Little Women by Louisa May Alcott.
Silent Film Player
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.
Hulette, Gladys Filmography
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1934, role: actress , character name: Paige's Secretary
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1934, role: actress , character name: Gertrude
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1933, role: actress , character name: Nightclub Patron
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1933, role: actress
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1928, role: actress , character name: The Lady
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1928, role: actress , character name: Mary Callender
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1928, role: actress , character name: Estelle Carter
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1927, role: actress , character name: Nora Denahy
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1927, role: actress , character name: Risa Bartlett
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1926, role: actress
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1926, role: actress , character name: Mary Jackson
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1926, role: actress , character name: The Widow's Secretary
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1926, role: actress , character name: Mary Hamilton
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1926, role: actress
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1926, role: actress , character name: Lucia Morgan
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1925, role: actress , character name: Gilda Hart
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1925, role: actress , character name: Mary Moore
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1925, role: actress , character name: Rosemary Masters
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1925, role: actress , character name: Agnes Bomar
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1925, role: actress , character name: Mitzi Callahan
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1925, role: actress , character name: Lena Rivers
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1925, role: actress , character name: Doris Merrick
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1924, role: actress , character name: 'Miss'
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1924, role: actress , character name: Ruby
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1924, role: actress , character name: Margaret Selfridge
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1924, role: actress , character name: Gladys Gray
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1924, role: actress , character name: Elsie Lefferts
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1923, role: actress , character name: Vittoria
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1923, role: actress , character name: Jessie Walton
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1923, role: actress , character name: Nadia Meredith
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1923, role: actress
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1923, role: actress , character name: Nancy Yeulette
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1922, role: actress , character name: Mayflower
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1922, role: actress , character name: Janie Roberts
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1922, role: actress , character name: Natalie Nevins
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1922, role: actress , character name: Myra Nell Drew
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1921, role: actress , character name: Esther Hatburn
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1920, role: actress , character name: Etta Stampa
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1920, role: actress , character name: Edith Rhoades
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1918, role: actress , character name: Marjorie Whitney
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1918, role: actress , character name: Enid Barwell
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1918, role: actress , character name: Susie Simpkins
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1918, role: actress , character name: Dorothy Daniels
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1917, role: actress
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1917, role: actress , character name: Mary Flynn
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1917, role: actress , character name: The cigarette girl
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1917, role: actress , character name: Nell
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1917, role: actress , character name: Phoebe Lester
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1917, role: actress , character name: Esther
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1917, role: actress , character name: Peggie McGraw
