Julia Hoyt (September 15, 1897 – October 31, 1955) was an American actress on stage and in silent films.
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 Hoyt in a 1920 portrait by E.O. Hoppé, as published in a 1922 issue of Tattler | |
| Born | Julia Wainwright Robbins September 15, 1897 |
| Died | October 31, 1955 (aged 58) |
| Spouses | Lydig Hoyt
(m. 1914; div. 1924)Aquila C. Giles (m. 1935) |
| Parent(s) | Julian W. Robbins Sarah G. Jewett |
| Relatives | Hugh J. Jewett (grandfather) |
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Early life
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Julia Wainwright Robbins was born in 1897, the daughter of Julian W. Robbins and Sarah Guthrie (née Jewett) Robbins (1862–1939). Her grandfather Hugh Judge Jewett was president of the Erie Railroad and a congressman from Ohio.[1]
Career
editJulia Robbins performed on stage as a debutante in charity entertainments.[2] Films she appeared in included The Wonderful Thing (1921) with Norma Talmadge, The Man Who Found Himself (1925), and Camille (1926). During World War I, she lent her image and name to an American Red Cross campaign for the employment of disabled veterans.[3]
On Broadway,[4] she was in a revival of The Squaw Man (1921) by Edwin Milton Royle,[5] Rose Briar (1922–23) by Booth Tarkington, The Virgin of Bethulia (1925) by Gladys Buchanan Unger, The School for Scandal (1925), The Pearl of Great Price (1926), The Dark (1927), Mrs. Dane's Defense (1928), Within the Law (1928) by Bayard Veiller, Sherlock Holmes (1928), Serena Blandish (1929), The Rhapsody (1930) by Louis K. Anspacher, The Wiser they Are (1931), and Hay Fever (1931–32) by Noël Coward, with Constance Collier.
Her fashion business, named Julia Hoyt Modes, designed dresses and coats sold in department stores across the United States. She wrote syndicated articles about etiquette and fashion.[6][7] In 1924, she wrote a series of reports from a European trip for the Bridgeport Post.[8]
Personal life
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Julia Hoyt was considered a great beauty,[9] and sat for portraits by Paul Helleu, Neysa McMein (for the cover of Woman's Home Companion in 1921 and McCall's in May 1923), John Singer Sargent and Carl Van Vechten.[10][11][12]
Julia Robbins was married three times, first to lawyer Lydig Hoyt in 1914, as his second wife, when she was 17 years old.[13] They had two children who died in infancy,[14] and divorced in 1924.[15] She later wed actor Louis Calhern in 1927, the same year they co-starred in The Dark on Broadway; she divorced him in 1932. In 1935, she wed motion picture executive Aquila C. Giles.[14]
Hoyt had several health problems in the late 1930s, including pneumonia while at sea in 1935,[16] and a lasting chest infection that necessitated the removal of ribs.[17] Julia Hoyt Giles died in 1955 from a heart attack at age 58.[18]
References
edit- ^ "HUGH J. JEWETT DEAD; The Famous Railroad Financier Passes Away at the Hotel Bon Air, Augusta, Ga. ONCE PRESIDENT OF THE ERIE He Took Hold of the Road When Its Fortunes Had Been Brought Low and Managed It for Many Years". The New York Times. 7 March 1898. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
- ^ "Miss Julia Robbins to Wed Lydig Hoyt" New York Times (March 25, 1914).
- ^ Mrs. Lydig Hoyt, "Woman's Vital Duty in the Work of Upbuilding our Disabled Soldiers" South Bend News-Times (September 5, 1918): 9.
- ^ Ruth Waterbury, "Merely 'Julia Hoyt' of Broadway" Detroit Free Press (December 17, 1922): Magazine Sec., p. 13. via Newspapers.com
- ^ "Mrs. Lydig Hoyt Makes Stage Debut with Faversham in 'The Squaw Man'" Archived 2016-10-11 at the Wayback Machine Sacramento Union (December 18, 1921): 25.
- ^ "Good Etiquette is Worth the Time and Trouble to Achieve, is Viewpoint of Mrs. Hoyt" Pittsburgh Gazette Times (January 13, 1924): sec. 7, p. 4.
- ^ "Julia Hoyt Says Chic is Instinct" Pittsburgh Press (June 22, 1930): Society Sec., p. 6.
- ^ "Take a Little Jaunt to Europe with Julia Hoyt" Bridgeport Telegram (July 4, 1924): 9. via Newspapers.com
- ^ "Julia Hoyt Loses in Beauty Contest to her Double in 'Half Moon Inn'" Columbia Spectator (February 26, 1925): 1.
- ^ John Singer Sargent, "Mrs. Lydig Hoyt (Julia Wainwright Robbins)" (drawing, 1920), National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.
- ^ A 1933 portrait of Julia Hoyt, by Carl Van Vechten, in Yale University's Beinecke Library Digital Collections.
- ^ McCall's Magazine (May 1923), cover by Neysa McMein.
- ^ "Miss Julia Robbins Marries Lydig Hoyt" New York Times (June 4, 1914).
- ^ a b "Ex-Actress Julia Hoyt Dies at 58" Corpus Christi Times (November 1, 1955): 7-B. via Newspapers.com
- ^ "The Lydig Hoyts' 'Amiable' Love Wreck" Ogden Standard-Examiner (September 7, 1924): Sunday Feature Sec., p. 2. via Newspapers.com
- ^ "Noted Beauty Gravely Ill on Sea Voyage" Fresno Bee (May 22, 1935): 1. via Newspapers.com
- ^ "Julia Hoyt Loses Ribs" Wilkes-Barre Evening News (June 4, 1937): 23. via Newspapers.com
- ^ "Julia Hoyt, Film and Stage Beauty, Dead" Chicago Tribune (November 1, 1955): pt. 3, p. 10.
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