Ormetta Grace Hawley (February 21, 1889,[citation needed] Holyoke, Massachusetts[1]—June 3, 1942, Rome, New York) was an American actress.

Ormetta Hawley
Ormi Hawley, ca. 1912
Born
Ormetta Grace Hawley

Died(1942-06-03)June 3, 1942

Hawley attended the New England Conservatory of Music.[2] She began her acting career in live theatre with a stock theater company in Boston[1] before turning to the new silent film industry in 1911 with Lubin Studios in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[3]

Over her short film career she reportedly appeared in more than three hundred motion pictures, a large number of which would have been short films. She made her last film in 1919.

Hawley was married to Charles Fulcher, with whom she operated a farm near Camden, New York, for the last 15 years of her life. She also painted portraits and wrote stories for children. She died in a hospital in Rome, New York, on June 3, 1942.[4]

Selected filmography

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Beauty from Mass., Ormi Hawley, star in Ansonia story". The Butte Miner. Montana, Butte. October 1, 1916. p. 40. Retrieved November 20, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ "Brief Biographies of Popular Players: Omri Hawley". Motion Picture Magazine: 107. February 1915. Retrieved November 20, 2019.
  3. ^ "A Star of the Movies" The Cosmopolitan (March 1914): 555-556.
  4. ^ "Ormi Hawley". Chicago Tribune. Illinois, Chicago. Associated Press. June 5, 1942. p. 16. Retrieved November 20, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
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