Ormetta Grace Hawley (February 21, 1889,[citation needed] Holyoke, Massachusetts[1]—June 3, 1942, Rome, New York) was an American actress.
Ormetta Hawley | |
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.jpg) Ormi Hawley, ca. 1912 | |
| Born | Ormetta Grace Hawley |
| Died | 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
edit- Twixt Love and Ambition (1912)
- Where Love Leads (1916)
- The Antics of Ann (1917)
- Runaway Romany (1917)
- The Ordeal of Rosetta (1918)
- Mrs. Dane's Defense (1918)
- The Road Called Straight (1919)
- The Splendid Romance (1919)
- The Unwritten Code (1919)
References
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ "Brief Biographies of Popular Players: Omri Hawley". Motion Picture Magazine: 107. February 1915. Retrieved November 20, 2019.
- ^ "A Star of the Movies" The Cosmopolitan (March 1914): 555-556.
- ^ "Ormi Hawley". Chicago Tribune. Illinois, Chicago. Associated Press. June 5, 1942. p. 16. Retrieved November 20, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
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